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Originally published March 22, 2009 at 12:30 PM | Page modified March 22, 2009 at 3:15 PM

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4 cops dead in Oakland; injured officer dies

Police say the fourth Oakland police officer shot on Saturday has died at a city hospital.

OAKLAND, Calif. —

Police say the fourth Oakland police officer shot on Saturday has died at a city hospital.

Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said Sunday that 41-year-old Officer John Hege died at Highland Hospital after being gravely wounded during a traffic stop.

Authorities say a 26-year-old parolee opened fire on Hege and 40-year-old Sgt. Mark Dunakin after they pulled him over around 1 p.m. on Saturday, killing Dunakin.

Suspect Lovelle Mixon was slain later that afternoon in a gunfight with police that left two more officers dead. Thomason identified those officers as 43-year-old Sgt. Ervin Romans and 35-year-old Sgt. Daniel Sakai.

Police said the officers' deaths were the most ever in a single day in the department's history.

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