OAKLAND — A forty five-year-old Hayward man discovered shot to loss of life inside a automobile Tuesday morning in East Oakland, was recognized by police Wednesday as Virgil Earl Robinson III.
He was discovered shot about 4:08 a.m. Tuesday inside a automobile that was in a parking zone behind an house advanced within the 1600 block of Sonoma Approach, a residential space simply west of seventeenth Avenue and never removed from San Antonio Park. He was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Police haven't but launched a motive within the killing or mentioned why Robinson was within the space. No arrests have been made.
The killing is the sixth murder investigated by Oakland police this 12 months. Final 12 months presently police had investigated eight homicides. The California Freeway Patrol can also be investigating a deadly capturing that occurred on an Oakland freeway this 12 months.
Final 12 months Oakland police investigated 134 homicides within the metropolis, the best quantity since there have been 148 homicides in 2006. The CHP additionally investigated 5 homicides on freeways inside town.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are providing as much as $10,000 in reward cash in Tuesday’s killing for info resulting in the arrest of the suspect. Anybody with info could name police at 510-238-3821 or 510-238-3950 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.