The Vallejo Police Department has identified two officers who shot and injured a 24-year-old man during an apparent mental health crisis last week.
Officers Himanshu Saini and Daniel Saravia fired their weapons during the incident at the Blue Rock Village apartment complex in East Vallejo, the department announced in a press release Thursday. Neither officer has previously been in a shooting, records show. They did not respond to a request for comment.
Saini and Saravia, working as a two-officer unit, responded to a vandalism call shortly after 6 p.m. on Aug. 29, according to public records. Police say they encountered Alexander Schumann, who allegedly pointed a toy gun at them. The officers fired multiple rounds, striking Schumann at least once before immediately administering first aid, Vallejo police spokesperson Sgt. Rashad Hollis told Open Vallejo.
A California Highway Patrol helicopter took Schumann to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he underwent emergency surgery, according to witnesses and public records. Medical supplies at the scene indicate that first responders treated Schumann for a gunshot wound to the torso. His injuries are not life threatening, according to Hollis.
On Thursday, Solano County prosecutors charged Schumann with one count each of felony vandalism and misdemeanor domestic battery; two misdemeanor counts of brandishing a replica firearm; and one misdemeanor obstruction charge, court records show.
Saini and Saravia began their law enforcement careers as trainees with the Vallejo Police Department in October 2021 and became sworn officers in May 2022, public records show. The department placed them on administrative leave following the shooting, according to police. The city has retained a third-party investigator to conduct an administrative review of the shooting; the Solano County District Attorney’s Office will lead a separate criminal probe.
Open Vallejo research shows that from 2000 to 2020, Vallejo police shot someone once every four months, on average. In June 2020, the California Department of Justice launched a review of the Vallejo Police Department due to concerns over the “number and nature” of shootings by officers. The following month, this newsroom revealed that for years, a group of officers bent down the corners of their star-shaped badges to commemorate shooting civilians.
Following a failed collaborative reform effort, California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued Vallejo in 2024. The parties entered into a formal settlement agreement last April.
Vallejo officers have not killed anyone since 2020, when Det. Jarrett Tonn shot 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa from inside an unmarked police truck after he allegedly mistook a hammer in Monterrosa’s hoodie for a gun. The Vallejo Police Department fired Tonn for the shooting in 2021 but reinstated him in August 2023 with back pay following arbitration.
The last Vallejo police shooting was in November 2023, when officer Matthew Komoda shot a minor suspected of armed robbery following a chase that ended near Sonoma Boulevard and Tennessee Street. Five months earlier, Vallejo Police Ofc. Brad Kim shot a burglary suspect who allegedly struck Kim with a stolen car as he tried to flee, ending the department’s longest period between police shootings in recent history.
The Vallejo Police Department will host a community town hall to discuss the Aug. 29 shooting at the Jesse Bethel High School Student Union Cafeteria, 1800 Ascot Parkway, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sept. 11.
