Man charged with repeated gunfire near UC Berkeley
Jeffrey Hue "pulled a gun from his waistband, pointed it at the students, told them to run and fired a round into the air," police wrote.
A man who fired a gun into the air during a confrontation with UC Berkeley students has been charged with nine felonies and a misdemeanor, according to police and court papers.
According to police, 45-year-old Jeffrey Hue also fired a gun at five other locations in Berkeley after the confrontation, which took place Oct. 26 at 12:15 a.m.
One of those bullets was recovered by police in an occupied apartment in the 2400 block of Durant Avenue, BPD wrote in charging papers. An unoccupied vehicle at Fulton and Kittredge streets was also hit by gunfire.
Last week, Berkeley police found a weapons cache including 12 guns while arresting Hue at his home in San Francisco, police wrote. Only six of the weapons were registered.
In the end, police seized three rifles, five semi-automatic pistols and three revolvers during the Nov. 7 search, BPD said.
Police also found more than 15,000 rounds of ammunition, including pistol and rifle rounds, high-capacity magazines and armor-piercing rounds, BPD wrote.
The cache included kits that are commonly used to make ghost guns, authorities said.
Police said Hue had been walking with a friend on Oct. 25 at about 11:55 p.m. when they confronted four UC Berkeley students in the 2400 block of Telegraph Avenue.
"Hue pulled a gun from his waistband, pointed it at the students, told them to run and fired a round into the air. The four students ran out of fear of being shot," police wrote.
Hue and his friend then stopped at a bar before leaving the area.
Police said cellphone data and surveillance footage put Hue in the area of the gunfire.
Authorities credited ShotSpotter and licence plate reader technologies with helping in the investigation.
Jeffrey Hue. BPD
Police said Hue acknowledged being in Berkeley on the night of the shooting and identified himself in surveillance footage from that night.
But he asked to speak to his attorney "when confronted with facts about the shooting incidents and the evidence seized from his residence," Berkeley police wrote.
On Friday, the Alameda County district attorney's office charged him with assault with a firearm, discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, shooting at an inhabited dwelling, shooting at an unoccupied vehicle, three counts of possession of an assault weapon, possession of a silencer, possession of armor-piercing ammunition and possession of a firearm without identification numbers.
As of this week, Hue was no longer in custody.
His next court date is scheduled for Nov. 14.
Berkeley police thanked the UC Berkeley Police Department, San Francisco police and fire departments, East Bay Regional Parks police and the Berkeley Fire Department "for their assistance in this matter."
