SAN LEANDRO — An intercity East Bay police chase culminated with two officer-involved shootings that left one man dead and another wounded, police said.

Police said two suspects led Oakland police on an approximately four-mile chase from 81st Avenue and International Boulevard in Oakland to Doolittle Drive and Davis Street in San Leandro.

Lesly Xavier Allen, 21, of Oakland, died Monday morning from injuries related to the shooting, San Leandro police Lt. Tom Overton said. An autopsy will be performed on his body today.

Vernon Dunbar, 21, of Oakland, was treated and released from Eden Medical Center of Castro Valley with wounds that were not life-threatening and arrested on suspicion of six felonies, Overton said. Both men had criminal records and three officers were placed on paid administrative leave, Overton said. An Oakland Police Department internal affairs investigation is being held independently of a San Leandro police investigation, he said.

Police initiated the chase at about 9:30 p.m., when the two men refused to pull over for a traffic stop. Police suspected the two men were involved in a drug transaction, Overton said. Officers chased the men south on Hegenberger Road and eastbound onto Doolittle Drive to Davis Street, when Dunbar, who was driving, spun out trying to avoid backed up traffic, making a left turn into oncoming lanes and crashing into the driver's side of the patrol car, Overton said.

With the patrol

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car driver pinned in the car, the other officer emerged from the vehicle ordering the two men to put their hands up and opened fire when he saw Allen reach below the car seat, Overton said.

Dunbar backed his car away from the collision and rammed the patrol car, and fled eastbound on Davis Street, crashing into a median on an overpass within 1,000 feet of Doolittle Drive. With his car hitch-centered on the median, officers opened fire on Dunbar, striking him twice, Overton said.

Four additional officers in two cars arrived at the second crash scene. Three officers were involved in the shooting, and three others were witnesses, he said. Police found a .40-caliber Lugar semiautomatic in the car, Overton said.

Dunbar was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer, evading police, being a felon in possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a loaded firearm and possession of a firearm with removed serial numbers, according to San Leandro police.

He is being held at Santa Rita Jail of Dublin in lieu of $100,000 bail.

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