Oakland police are investigating the demise of an Oakland man as a murder after he was discovered Saturday morning inside a burning residence constructing with a number of lacerations to his physique.
Authorities have been known as at 7:52 a.m. Saturday a few man screaming for assist from the balcony of his Adams Level residence on the 200 block of Vernon Avenue, after the unit appeared to have caught hearth, in keeping with Oakland police.
Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze. However after they acquired to the 53-year-old man, they found he had a number of lacerations on his physique. He was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
The person’s identify has not been launched. The precise explanation for his demise stays unclear, and an post-mortem is deliberate by the Alameda County coroner’s workplace.
The incident represents the nineteenth demise investigated as a murder by the Oakland Police Division thus far this 12 months. Police had investigated the identical variety of killings at this identical time in 2022.
No arrests have been introduced. The reason for the hearth additionally stays beneath investigation.
A reward of as much as $10,000 is being provided for data resulting in an arrest within the man’s demise. Anybody with details about the case can name police at 510-238-3821 or 510-238-7950, or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.