Articles tagged with: Shooting
Cops & Courts, Oakland »
Oakland Police investigated at least two separate shootings in the city Friday evening, including the slaying of a man found shot multiple times.
Authorities reported a fatal shooting on the 1700 block of Seventh Avenue at 6 p.m. Friday where a man was found suffering from several gunshot wounds in a residential neighborhood east of Lake Merritt.
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Oakland Police revised the description of a getaway car used by four men who were involved in the shooting of six people at a Jack London Square restaurant and nightclub early Monday morning.
The gunfire claimed the lives of William Jenkins, 27, of Oakland and Adam Williams, 22, of San Leandro.
Police now believe that the men fled from Sweet Jimmie’s nightclub at 311 Broadway Street in a newer model, four-door White Toyota Camry after firing an assault rifle at a crowd of patrons who had assembled at the popular after hours eatery.
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Oakland Police said an early Monday morning shooting that killed 2 people and wounded 4 others near Jack London Square appeared to be a random act of violence.
Police said a gunman opened fire into a crowd of people assembled at Sweet Jimmie’s, a nightclub located at 311 Broadway Street, after a botched robbery attempt outside the club at 12:45 a.m.
Cops & Courts, San Francisco »
A man was critically wounded after he was shot by a Haight Street supermarket employee during a heated argument over a dog in San Francisco Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Two San Francisco Police Officers who were patrolling the area heard the shooting at Fred’s Supermarket on the 1400 block of Haight Street near Masonic Avenue and responded to the scene.
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A man and a woman who worked at a San Francisco Fisherman’s Wharf business that sold luggage and other souvenirs were shot and killed Sunday night, according to police.
Authorities responded to a shooting call at 269 Jefferson Street at 8:30 p.m. and discovered the two victims suffering from gunshot wounds. They were later pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
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A Daly City Police officer shot and critically wounded a woman in San Francisco Saturday evening after she began backing her vehicle towards the officer during a traffic stop.
Police pulled the motorist over near Carrizal Street and Geneva Avenue by the Cow Palace at 7 p.m., a police dispatcher said.
Cops & Courts, San Francisco »
Two recent police shootings in San Francisco — one of them caught on camera by a bystander — have renewed calls by San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon to outfit the city’s patrol officers with Tasers.
Gascon told reporters during a Wednesday press conference following the officer-involved shooting of a man in a wheelchair at 10th and Folsom Sts. that the altercation would likely not have escalated if responding officers had an option to use the electric stun guns to detain the man.
Oakland »
Nearly one hundred people marched to the Fruitvale BART station today to protest the fatal shooting of an unarmed East Oakland barber by Oakland Police earlier this week.
Derrick Jones, 37, was fatally shot in the chest by two Oakland Police officers Monday evening after authorities responded to a domestic dispute call between Jones and his ex-girlfriend at a corner laundromat next door to the barbershop he owns on Bancroft Avenue.
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OAKLAND — A protest organized in response to the fatal officer-involved shooting of an Oakland barber shop owner by two city police officers forced the temporary closure of the Fruitvale BART station. The station reopened shortly after 6 p.m. when the rally ended.
The protest originated this afternoon at Derrick Jones’s barber shop on the 5800 block of Bancroft Ave. and ended at the BART station — the site of where another unarmed man, Oscar Grant, was shot and killed by former BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle in 2009.
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The Oakland Police Department defended the use of deadly force against a man who allegedly assaulted a woman and fled from authorities at a Tuesday afternoon press conference.
But the revelation that the man being pursued by two officers was not armed with a weapon stoked community skepticism over the justifiability of the fatal officer-involved shooting.
