Victim fatally shot in West Oakland is 100th homicide of year

OAKLAND — An individual fatally shot Monday afternoon in a West Oakland neighborhood grew to become the town’s one centesimal murder of the yr, authorities stated.

Shortly after 2:53 p.m., officers responded to stories of ShotSpotter exercise within the 1300 block of Kirkham Avenue within the metropolis’s Oak Heart neighborhood. When officers arrived, they discovered a sufferer on the bottom affected by a number of gunshot wounds. The sufferer was pronounced lifeless on the scene.

As officers flooded the world to dam off close by streets and recuperate proof, paramedics and Oakland Hearth Division firefighters arrived and supplied care.

In response to a social-media put up, an Oakland Police Division helicopter was circling the world overhead. Police requested residents to keep away from the world.

Investigators didn't launch phrase of any motives or suspects in custody, in addition to any suspect or related automobile description.

The killing is the one centesimal murder investigated by Oakland police this yr, after a deadly taking pictures Sunday in East Oakland and the tragic double deadly taking pictures that claimed two Berkeley Excessive College college students’ lives.

At this similar time final yr, Oakland police had investigated 105 homicides. The California Freeway Patrol has additionally investigated 5 homicides on freeways within the metropolis this yr.

In a press release Monday, Oakland Police Officers’ Affiliation President Barry Donelan stated “[t]hese bitter murder numbers paint the tragic story of Oakland; too few cops result in too many homicides.” In response to that assertion, the town logged its earlier one centesimal homicides on Dec. 7, 2020 and Sept. 20, 2021.

Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are providing as much as $10,000 in reward cash for data resulting in the arrest of the killer.  Anybody with data might name police at 510-238-3821 or 510-238-7950 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.

Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.

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