OAKLAND – Another brutal weekend in Oakland saw three individuals slain in separate shootings in less than four hours.
On Saturday around 4:30 p.m., police reported the first shooting in a West Oakland homeless encampment along 23rd Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
They reported that a shooting injured one man and murdered two others, a 29-year-old lady and a 50-year-old male. The injured individual was reported as in stable condition.
“All I heard was gunshots. “I was down in the car when I heard this loud, train-like sound,” said a former encampment resident known as “L.G.”
He claimed he tried to assist a man and woman on the ground.
“But they were far gone, they were far gone, so many shots in the body, it was ridiculous to see a human being just riddled with bullets,” L.G. went on.
Neighbors reported prior killings in the campground.
“No surprise at all. We’ve seen shootings here before. “We had encampment fires here,” claimed Jim Wong, owner of a rental property near the encampment.
Less than four hours later, at around 8 p.m., police say a shooting in east Oakland near the intersection of E Street and 105th Avenue killed a 50-year-old Stockton man near the Go Go Amigo corner store.
A neighbor named Kennedy reported hearing at least 40 bullets from his home while watching his younger siblings.
“I told my siblings to back away from the window.” There was gunfire. I did not want anything to happen to them. “I told them to go into the room,” Kennedy explained.
He said the gunshots went on for almost two minutes. Aside from his brothers, he was concerned about his father and another brother, who were in the Go Go Amigo store purchasing snacks.
“They ducked down over there in the store with the owner and stuff,” according to Kennedy.
Kennedy stated that this was the second homicide near the crossroads. A few months ago, he claimed that someone shot and killed a 17-year-old teenager inside the business.
According to a store clerk who did not want to be identified, the victim killed on Saturday was a regular.
“He was a good and polite man. He used to come and buy a few items here and there. He was friendly and generous. He was a loving man. “I saw him as an uncle,” the clerk explained.
Police are still looking for individuals and motivations in the two shootings. They stated that the two cases appear unrelated, and no one has been detained.