The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. on 26th Street.

When officers arrived, they found one person who was shot. Paramedics rushed that person to the hospital where they later died. 

Police are not identifying the victim and are still looking for the shooter.

The latest shooting happened about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday while the victim was stopped on the shoulder of the Hegenberger Road off-ramp from southbound Interstate Highway 880.

The victim heard five gunshots, but he wasn’t injured and his car wasn’t hit, according to the CHP.

The suspect’s car is described as a blacked-out Chevrolet Camaro, Officer Adib Zeid said.

There have been five freeway shootings reported in the greater Oakland area since June 14, Zeid said.

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They include a shooting about 7:40 p.m. Sunday night on eastbound Highway 80 west of Buchanan Street in Albany. No injuries were reported but the victim’s vehicle was damaged.

The suspect in that shooting was described as a Hispanic man about 35-40 years old, wearing sunglasses and a green fitted cap, while driving a newer silver BMW convertible.

Anyone with information about the shooting on Wednesday is asked to contact the Oakland CHP office at (510) 457-2375 and ask for Officer Melendez.

Oakland police investigator Phong Tran faces five felony charges, including perjury and bribing a witness in a 2011 murder case.

“This case involves a decade of lying and manipulation by an Oakland police officer,” Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price said. “The days when we turn a blind eye to misconduct and violations of the law are over. This case hopefully should send a message that this kind of conduct is an outlier, that it cannot be tolerated.”

The allegations centers on the murder of Charles Butler, who was shot and killed during a road rage incident.

Tran is accused of paying a witness thousands of dollars to lie on the stand. The witness recanted years later.

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The Alameda County DA is now reviewing more than 200 other cases involving Tran.

“We do not want police officers to solve crimes,” Price said. “We will not and do not tolerate homicides, but we want witnesses to be able to come forward truthfully and unafraid.”

Adante Pointer represents Giovante Douglas and Cartier Hunter, the two men who spent nearly a decade behind bars based on the false testimony before their convictions were overturned.

“My clients are very happy to see that the officer who orchestrated essentially the hell that they lived through for 10 years, a decade now being held accountable for his actions,” Pointer said.

The two men are now suing Tran and the City of Oakland. The detective was formally served with the paperwork at court on Wednesday, but refused to take it.

If convicted on all criminal charges, Tran could be sentenced to just over six years in prison, Pointer said.

“I think this is a situation where he should be forced to spend at least as much time as they did away from their families snatched away from their lives and forced to deal with the nightmares of prison that would be fair,” Pointer said. “Unfortunately, the law doesn’t allow that.”

Tran’s attorney, Andrew Ganz, believes the case is hollow and is accusing Price of using press conferences to influence public opinion and dismiss murder cases in a statement saying “I must simply respect the ruling of the judge, even though this should have been the exception based on the actual evidence and law.”

It is a ruling Price said should send a message to both law enforcement and the community.

“My responsibility is to ensure there is no double standard and that the community is aware if you violate the law, even if you are a police officer that you will be held accountable,” Price said.

The shooting happened at about 8 a.m., according to police.

Responding officers found the victim suffering from at least one gunshot wound. They were pronounced dead at the scene.

Further information wasn’t immediately available.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Oakland Police Department Homicide Section at 510-238-3821 or the tip line at 510-238-7950.

The Diocese’s attorneys declined an interview request from NBC Bay Area at a hearing Tuesday, but argued in a recent motion that confidentiality will protect accused clergy against “the disclosure of a ‘scandalous’ and deeply personal matter in publicly filed court documents.”

They added that confidentiality was necessary to “protect the privacy and to prevent identity theft and harassment of those individuals,” both alleged victims and accused clergy alike.

Plaintiff’s attorneys and victim advocates blasted the move and questioned the diocese’s commitment to transparency in the widening sex abuse scandal.

“What we see is not an endeavor to shed light on that cancerous past,” said Brent Weisenberg, an attorney representing plaintiffs and other creditors in the Oakland bankruptcy case. “We’re here with a request that on the first day of the case, all these names remain secret.”

Judge William J. Lafferty did not rule on the motion during Tuesday’s hearing, but instead suggested attorneys for the diocese file a new motion specifying exactly which names should be kept under seal and why.

The Diocese of Oakland currently faces more than 300 child sexual abuse lawsuits stemming from AB 218, a 2019 state law that opened a three-year window for such cases to proceed in court despite the statute of limitations. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said the figure could climb past 400 once every case was tallied.

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In 2019, the Diocese of Oakland released a list of more than 60 priests who have been “credibly accused” of sexually abusing children. Attorneys for the diocese signaled Tuesday their confidentiality motion would not apply to the priests on that list.

However, as NBC Bay Area first reported, there are hundreds of Northern California priests who now face abuse allegations for the first time, including many from the Oakland diocese, and it’s currently unclear how those names will be treated. None of those newly accused priests have been added to the Diocese of Oakland’s public list of suspected abusers, despite some being named in multiple recent lawsuits.

Publicly available documents filed in state civil court have already named many such priests, including Oakland’s now-deceased founding bishop, Bishop Floyd Begin, and Weisenberg argued the court can’t seal what’s already hit the public domain.

An attorney for the diocese said in court they needed more time to review those names before making a determination on their confidentiality request.

Outside the courthouse, advocates from the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), held a small demonstration. They accused Oakland Bishop Michael Barber of using the bankruptcy process to shield the identities of alleged abusers from public disclosure.

“What I would like to ask you Bishop Michael Barber,” former Oakland priest Tim Stier said. “Is if you’re publicly committed to transparency and accountability on child abuse issues, I think you should tell your lawyers that because they seem to be taking a different tact.”

SNAP urged the Diocese to publish the names of all priests accused in recently filed lawsuits and reiterated calls for California Attorney General Rob Bonta to publish findings from his office’s ongoing probe into abuse within the Catholic church.

A spokesperson for the Diocese of Oakland did not respond to NBC Bay Area’s request for comment Tuesday.

The diocese’s new confidentiality motion is due next month.

“I miss playing, I play for a living,” said Ben Ball. “I’m still in shock, kind of overwhelmed right now.”

Just hours after his Father’s Day performance, two thieves on bikes stole two of his saxophones, including a rare 1953 Selmer alto sax, while he was unloading band equipment at a house in Oakland on 41st and Telegraph early Monday morning.  

“In that split second when I went up the stairs, by the time I came back down the stairs, the guys had already taken off on the bikes,” said Ball.

He said the men appeared to be in their late teens to early 20s and dropped one instrument during their escape — causing hundreds of dollars in damages. The one they got away with was his sole source of income after a car accident left him disabled and unable to work.  

“They are taking something that is not theirs … The horn doesn’t have any value to the person who is taking it, as much as it does to me,” said Ball.

His friend, Sunny Adams, was watching the band unload when the theft happened. She is now putting posters up around the city to help raise money.  

“I saw in his eyes him realizing that he couldn’t work and that he wouldn’t have any gigs without a saxophone,” she said.

In an effort to get Ball back in tune, Adams set up a GoFundMe to replace the horn worth more than $7,000.

The effort to replace it raised $5,000 in just one day.

“It just gives me hope that the Bay Area is still the beautiful place,” said Ball. “It’s been really hard to see a lot of rampant crime. I just figured instead of getting upset and crying and being dejected, to do something positive.”

After being forced to cancel multiple performances, the story appears headed for a positive note. Ball hopes to soon have another instrument in hand and a little rhythm and harmony back in his life.  

“That’s what I do and to not be able to do that would just be devastating,” said Ball.

With the lowest payroll, worst attendance and worst record in baseball, the A’s were finally on a six-game winning streak as they got ready to take on the Tampa Bay Rays, the team with the best record in baseball. But that’s not why the parking lot was so crowded.

“Get your shirt and put it on!” shouted Tyrone Moore-Perez, a volunteer with the Oakland 68s sports fan booster club.

“One per person, so we have enough for everybody!” shouted fellow volunteer April Kenton, as she balled up Kelly green T-shirts and threw them to fans entering the sprawling tailgate party. “Make sure you guys put these on! Put the shirts on, guys!”

“I’m a third-generation A’s fan, and I’m here to do my part to keep my team in Oakland,” Kenton explained.

“I love my team, I’ve been a fan since I was a kid, I don’t want to lose them,” Moore-Perez said.

As he spoke, Moore-Perez held up his own Kelly green shirt, with one word on it: “SELL.”

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Volunteers gave away 7,000 of the T-shirts, made at cost by local clothing retailer Oaklandish, as part of a protest they’d been planning since April when the A’s ownership announced plans to leave Oakland and move the team to Las Vegas. Already angry at owner John Fisher for trading away the team’s best players while raising ticket prices as the Coliseum continues to slowly decay, many fans had stopped coming to the ballpark altogether, leaving the A’s with an average Tuesday attendance of just 3,913 before the June 13 game.

But a tweet from A’s fan Stu Clary changed all of that for just one night. Clary suggested a “reverse boycott” — packing the Coliseum full of A’s fans for one randomly chosen weeknight game — to let Fisher, Major League Baseball, and the rest of the world know that Oakland has plenty of baseball fans who love their team, even if they hate its owner.

“I’ll be honest and say I didn’t think the organizers could pull this off,” said Nick Danoff, co-founder of a group that’s been working to secure the A’s a new ballpark location on Oakland’s waterfront. “Getting this many people here for a Tuesday night game against a team with no local fan base? … It’s incredible what they’ve done, and it shows there is that community here in Oakland that supports the team, and we just need to be given the chance.”

The official recorded attendance for the game was 27,759 — the Coliseum’s biggest crowd of the season. The Kelly green “SELL” shirts were visible from numerous camera angles in the game broadcast, and chants of “Sell the team!” could be heard loudly behind the announcers’ commentary.

“We’re getting national exposure,” Kenton said. “And we’re helping people understand that a team is more than just the ball players on the field or the owner. It’s also about the community around us.”

Inside the hulking concrete stadium where the A’s have played ball since 1968, the energy was electric and the noise was deafening.

“This literally feels like a normal A’s game,” said lifelong fan and Oakland 68s member Anson Canasnares.

In the section behind home plate, Hal the Hot Dog Guy, a beloved former A’s food vendor, stood up on his seat, leading the crowd in chants of “Stay in Oakland! Stay in Oakland!”

And in the right field bleachers, the Oakland 68s brought back their notoriously loud drums — a daily fixture at A’s games for more than 20 years until the team announced its Vegas land deal in April.

“We took the drums away — it was a really hard decision,” Casanares said.

“It’s been very effective to have the drums be gone,” said one of the drummers, a woman who told us she’s been coming to A’s games since the drumming began in 2000. “Silence is a weapon, and we’ve been using that.”

“We’re not gonna bring it to Vegas,” Casanares said of the drumming tradition, which has always been an unofficial, fan-led activity.

But as if to show Fisher and the world what they’d be giving up if the team moves to Las Vegas, the drummers came back for one night, as loud as can be.

“John Fisher’s trying to take this away from us,” said another one of the drummers. “You really want to leave all of this —all of this fun — for some tourists in Clark County, Nevada?”

The A’s pulled ahead of the Rays in the 8th inning, and the crowd got louder. Some commented on Twitter that it felt like playoff energy inside the Coliseum that night.

“This is more than a championship game,” said one excited fan. “This is our lives. We need this team to stay!”

The game stopped briefly as a fan in a green “SELL” T-shirt and black running shorts sprinted across the field, chased by security guards, as the crowd laughed and cheered him on. Then, it was back to baseball, and ultimately to a 7th straight win for the A’s. Fans immediately chanted “Sell the team! Sell the team!” at the game’s conclusion.

As fans from the right field bleachers spilled out into the walkways and the concourse of the Coliseum’s main level, still cheering and beating on their drums, a metaphorical dark cloud loomed over the Coliseum in the chilly night air: Sometime earlier that evening, while the A’s were warming up for their 2-1 victory over the Rays, the Nevada state senate passed SB1, a bill that would go on to be signed by Governor Joe Lombardo, approving $380 million in public funding for a 30,000-seat ballpark on the 9-acre Vegas Strip site where the Tropicana hotel now sits. It moves the A’s even closer to an exit from Oakland, even as fans rejoiced over their team’s unlikely victory and the success of their grassroots protest.

“This at least feels like a celebration,” Danoff said. “Maybe a last hurrah here? It’s worth doing — but this might be it.”

“It’s so wonderful,” said another fan outside the Coliseum. “And all I can tell people that say, ‘Oh, it’s done,’ — it’s not over ’til it’s over.”

The shooting happened at about 8:40 a.m. on the 66th Avenue off-ramp from southbound Interstate 880, the CHP said.

The victim wasn’t hurt, but their vehicle was damaged in the shooting, according to the CHP.

The CHP didn’t immediately have information about a suspect and suspect vehicle.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the CHP’s Oakland area office at 510-457-2875 and ask for Officer Robles.

Officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 2100 block of 39th Avenue just after 3 a.m., police said.

The officers found a victim with at least one gunshot wound, according to police.

Medics came to the scene and pronounced the victim dead, police said.

The victim’s identity will be released once the family can be notified.

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The incident was reported in the area of Foothill Boulevard and Vicksburg Avenue around 7 p.m.

When emergency crews arrived at the scene, the victim, who has not been identified, was transported to the hospital where they later died, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 510-777-8570.

For years, Bando Nuevo Estilo has performed at weddings, quinceañeras and other events in the Bay Area. But now, leader Jairo Torres and his wife Elizabet Lozano are wondering what’s next after their van, and trailer filled with musical equipment for the 15-person band was stolen Monday.

It was parked near their home off Branham Avenue in San Jose.

“It’s over $100,000 invested,” said Lozano. “My husband’s years of work and sacrifices. We have family. That’s how we pay our rent, food, everything. It’s sad.”

Torres said he used an air tag on the trailer to track it to Oakland. He drove to the location and that’s when he found someone loading his equipment into a blue truck.

He said he shot video of it and called 911 but says no one ever answered. So he started following the truck and several other vehicles that took off. His wife said that’s when things turned dangerous.

“By the time they knew that he was following them, they tried to hit his car,” “So he just stepped to the side because he saw that they were armed,” said Lozano.

Torres said the men in the vehicles were wearing masks and held up guns. He then went to the Oakland Police Department.

But when his air tag showed a new location, he went to that spot and found his van and an empty trailer.

He also found some of the metal posts he uses to build his set strewn in the street. He loaded them up into his trailer and returned home.

Torres said the band has three gigs this weekend and he’s had to buy some new equipment and borrow the rest to make sure Band Nuevo Estilo can still perform.

NBC Bay Area reached out to the Oakland Police Department to find out why no one answered Torres’ 911 call but has not heard back.

Torres filed a police report with the San Jose Police Department and now plans to do the same with Oakland PD.

His equipment was not insured.

Organizers in the Bay Area plan to fill the Oakland Coliseum in an effort to prove fans are committed to keeping the team in Oakland.

“The A’s belong in Oakland and I think most people understand that,” longtime fan Stu Clary said.

Clary is asking people to stop staying home and instead fill the coliseum with green for Tuesday’s game.

“Let’s reverse it. Let’s show everybody that hey it’s not us. We are not the issue here. The issue is the owner of the team John Fisher not trying to win and not putting money into the team,” Clary said.

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Clary took to social media to announce the reverse boycott in April and is getting support from all over the country. His goal is to send a message to Major League Baseball that Oakland can support a baseball team. The bottom line: the fans love the team, but want the owner to leave.

“We aren’t under any allusions. John Fisher is not going to wake Wednesday morning, slap himself in the head and say ‘What was I thinking? We are committing to Oakland.’ We know that’s not going to happen,” Clary said. “All we want to do is raise awareness that there are A’s fans.”

Hal Gordon, the former “Hal the Hot Dog Guy” who spent years working at the coliseum, is helping with efforts by fan booster club The Oakland 68s. The group raised $35,000 to give away free shirts that read “SELL” at Tuesday’s game hoping to bring in a record number of fans, while promoting selling the team.

“It breaks my heart and it is not right,” Gordon said. “The owners, they own the team I guess, but they don’t own the community of the Oakland A’s fans.”

The anticipated wave of green comes as Nevada legislators are expected to continue debating in a special session Monday publicly funding $380 million to build a new stadium for the A’s in Las Vegas.

“A lot of fans have been with the team much longer than John Fisher has ever owned them,” Gordon said. “It just seems wrong that a billionaire can just take that.”

NBC Bay Area reached out to the A’s for comment, but did not hear back late Monday.

San Leandro police said at around 11:30 a.m., a man was involved in a robbery at a business in the 1000 block of MacArthur Boulevard. They added that the suspect was armed and the vehicle involved, a silver Hyundai 2-door hatchback, had been reported stolen.

At around 2 p.m., San Leandro police said they found the suspect vehicle in the area of Washington Avenue and Lewelling Boulevard.

Police said that their officers attempted to stop the man in a parking lot in the 14400 block of Washington, but the suspect rammed one of the officer’s vehicle to escape.

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A police pursuit happened as the suspect traveled north into Oakland, where the vehicle eventually became disabled near the intersection of San Leandro Street and 75th Avenue, officials said.

The man barricaded himself inside the vehicle and was engaged in a standoff with officers. Just before 7 p.m., the man involved in the standoff was pulled out of the car and taken into police custody.

The standoff caused the Oakland Coliseum BART station to close but it has since been reopened and service was restored.

Witnesses had their eyes and their smartphones directed at the car for several hours.

“About an hour ago, that silver car over there came careening down the street with three Oakland police on his hind tail, and they pin maneuvered him. They were able to disable his vehicle, caved his tire in,” said Oakland resident Jordan Hansen.

A BART rider shot a video from the platform. It showed police firing what appears to gas canister into or near the car and the prevailing wind pushed the smoky gas back towards officers.

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The measure can still be amended by lawmakers, and if it passes the Senate it would still need approval from the Assembly before going to the desk of Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, who has expressed support for it. Both the state Senate and Assembly are adjourned until Monday.

In a hearing that began Wednesday and stretched into the early morning hours Thursday, lawmakers peppered tourism officials and a representative from a firm partnering with the ball club with questions about the feasibility and benefits of financing such a deal.

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Public funds for the stadium would mainly come from $180 million in transferable tax credits and $120 million in county bonds. Backers have pledged that the creation of a special tax district around the proposed stadium would generate enough money to pay off those bonds and interest. The plan would not directly raise taxes.

The A’s would not owe property taxes for the publicly owned stadium. Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, would also contribute $25 million in credit toward infrastructure costs.

A’s representatives and some tourism officials say a deal would further grow Las Vegas’ developing sports scene and act as an economic engine, but a growing chorus of economists and some lawmakers warn that the project would bring minimal benefits for the hefty public price tag.

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The money comes from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, specially from its Staffing For Adequate Emergency Response Grants (SAFER) program. The program is aimed at funding fire departments to help them increase or maintain the number of firefighters available in their communities. 

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The City of Oakland is currently dealing with a historic $360 million budget deficit, which Mayor Sheng Thao has proposed to solve with a two-year budget plan called the One Oakland Budget. The budget calls for, in part, spending reductions across city departments. 

The budget prioritizes avoiding layoffs, but it would have meant the Oakland Fire Department would have had to suspend one of its engine companies. That could have meant potentially slower response times to fires reported by Oakland residents in the affected district. 

In order to avoid this outcome, members of the OFD with the assistance of the City Council applied for the SAFER program. 

Winning the grant means two things. First, OFD won’t need to brown out any of its engine companies. And second, the money will cover the salary and fringe benefits for 35 new firefighters over three years. 

“Now we don’t have to select a neighborhood fire house that will have to go without, that would run the chance of having a delayed response time from their fire department because that company is browned out,” said Fire Chief Reginald Freeman. “Now we don’t have to have that conversation. And now we don’t have to risk the lives of any of our residents, particularly on an EMS call, because we’re delayed in getting there because a company is coming from a neighboring district.”

Freeman also noted this will help provide relief to firefighters already with the OFD, many of whom are working mandatory overtime of up to 11 days in a row. 

Friday, June 9, is also Freeman’s last day with the OFD before his retirement from public service. In honor of his service, Mayor Sheng Thao presented him with a Mayor’s Proclamation during the gathering. 

Following that, City Administrator Jestin Johnson announced that Deputy Chief Damon Covington would step up as interim fire chief. 

Covington has been with the OFD since 2001, when he started as a firefighter paramedic. 

“I’m humbled to be there today,” said Covington. “And please know that Oakland will continue on the trajectory that Chief Freeman has put us on. And we’re going to continue to accomplish and achieve the things that he set forth for us.”

Ivory Bivens and Trevor Green are both facing murder charges in the case.

Police said the two were involved in the gun battle on I-880 in Oakland back in 2021. Wu’s family’s car was caught in the crossfire.

The two accused are also facing gang enhancements.

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But the Alameda County District Attorney did drop special circumstances enhancements. That means the two aren’t facing the possibility of life without parole if convicted.

A third suspect, Johnny Jackson pleaded guilty to a felony gun charge in connection with the case. Though the judge later determined Jackson to be a victim. Jackson could face up to six years in prison.

Bivens and Green’s plea hearing is scheduled for the end of July. The DA said if convicted, both could be sentenced to more than 150 years each.

“At this point transparency is so important from the DA’s office. Time after time we see plea deals or charges being dropped. It’s not comforting,” said Carl Chan, community leader.

Ivory Bivens and Trevor Green will face murder charges with a gang enhancement in the case.

Police believe Jasper was killed when his family’s car was caught in the crossfire of a gang shootout on I-880 back in 2021.  

Chan said Jasper’s family is frustrated by the new DA’s decision to drop some of the enhancements set in place by former DA Nancy O’Mally. 

“It is important to the family to seek the maximum so-called sentencing as possible,” he said. “We are not only talking about how many years, it’s about what message are we willing to send to the people that are committing the crimes against innocent families.”

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While Jasper’s family believes the changes are significant, Bivens’ attorney Ernie Castillo believes the change won’t mean much for his client. Who he says is still facing the possibility of 265 years behind bars.  

“I think those are changes without a difference really. My client is still facing an indeterminate life sentence, so from my perspective, nothing has changed,” he said. “So we are going to be prepared to fight this thing all the way through.”

Castillo plans to fight the gang enhancement and is adamant that there is no evidence linking his client to the rolling gunbattle.  

“I feel like the way this is charged they have succumbed to the political pressure surrounding the case and I really hope they see the problems in this case and do the right thing,” said Castillo. “The preliminary hearing in this case established quite clearly that Mr.Bivins had nothing to do with this case.”

The other defendant, Green, who police say was in the same car with Bivens, is facing 175 years in prison if convicted. A third suspect, who has now been ruled a victim by a judge, will face a felony firearm charge.  

The DA did not comment Wednesday, but in an earlier statement, Price said she is committed to seeking justice for Jasper, writing, “We will continue to hold these men accountable for these serious charges that will likely land them behind bars for the rest of their lives.”

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Details about the worker’s death were not clear but the port was shut down and workers were sent home early after the incident.

Officials are still determining if they will reopen Wednesday.

West Coast ports are already dealing with labor issues thanks to ongoing negotiations with dock workers. Even if things are resolved immediately, it could take weeks to clear the backlog.

While officers involved in the deadly shooting were cleared, Salgado’s family is now calling on the county’s new district attorney to take another look at the case.

“It really makes me upset that these police officers have this immunity and these bill of rights that protect them,” said Amanda Majail-Blanco, Salgado’s sister.

Investigators said the 23-year-old Salgado was driving in a stolen car and was shot several times after he rammed his car into CHP vehicles. Salgado’s pregnant girlfriend was also shot and survived, but lost the baby.

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Salgado’s mom on Tuesday during an emotional news briefing called for justice and police accountability. She also demanded Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and Attorney General Rob Bonta reopen the case despite former DA Nancy O’Malley deciding not to charge the officers.

“They aren’t God and they don’t have the right to take or roll the dice and say it is your turn,” said Farid Majail, Salgado’s father. “That ain’t going to happen. They are supposed to be here to correct us, help us, give us a ticket.”

Family members admit there is no evidence, but claims Sgt. Richard Henderson was using a high-capacity magazine during the shooting in violation of CHP policy – a claim CHP said it cannot comment on due to pending litigation.

“The background of some of the officers and the reputation that they have should be considered,” Majail-Blanco said. “I think there is an immense amount of evidence of at least charging Richard Henderson.”

Supporters of Salgado and other families whose loved ones have died at the hands of police are also calling for the reopening of other police shooting cases as well. They are hoping Price, who ran on a platform of police accountability and has already reopened several cases, will do the same in this case.

The business owner said he’s committed to staying in Oakland, but admits that’s getting harder to do.

“It’s discouraging, to the point of a gut punch. Do I even want to continue to do this? If you know the pattern that is going to continue to happen?” said Osi Umunna, the owner of streetwear store and event space, inner Desires Oakland.

He was left with busted locks and broken doors after being hit by thieves for the eighth time.

“They took everything except for this one rack of clothing right here,” said Umunna.       

In fact, multiple break-ins are one of the reasons he moved his store from 17th Street to Grand Avenue last year.

One of those break-ins cost him $100,000 and none of that was covered by insurance. 

Then, early Sunday morning, his store on Gand Avenue was targeted for the first time.  

Witnesses said multiple people filled two cars full of clothing from the store.  

Umunna was alerted by his security system and arrived as the cars were pulling off. 

In less than 10 minutes, the thieves stole more than $60,000 in merchandise.

“The sad part is the victims are small businesses and people who are trying to put resources back in the community. It’s like a treadmill you keep running and running and never get anywhere,” said the owner.

With insurance premiums at $1,500 a month, he said repeated break-ins are making it impossible to survive and don’t cover all the costs.    

Now he is calling on the community’s help him stay open via a GoFundMe page.  

“For me it’s like, how do we get more patrols or more people to take care of the businesses that provide for people who work?” said Umunna.

While the shelves are almost bare right now,  Ummuna said his commitment to building up the community remains. His goal is to bring positivity to the city through artist events and pop-ups. 

“For people that look like me, there is not always a platform for them. Some things have to be so refined to get into certain doors. So, we kind of give people with a lower access level to the finer things,” he said.

As he works to recover, he remains hopeful Oakland can do the same.

“It takes a village, it takes all of us,” he said.

Lamarion Griffin, 19, was being sought in connection with the shooting of a girl around 9 p.m. last Wednesday in the 3400 block of 68th Avenue, according to police.

The child was taken to a hospital after the shooting and was expected to survive, police said.

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Just after midnight, police said they received a call about a burning vehicle in the 9500 block of Mountain Boulevard.

When fire crews arrived, they found a body inside the truck.

It’s not clear if the person was dead before the fire started or if they died in the fire.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Oakland police at (510) 238-3821 or their tip line at (510) 238-7950.

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Police received a call just after 5:30 a.m. about gunfire at a location on the 800 block of 66th Avenue, near the north parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum.

Police found a victim suffering from a gunshot wound, who was pronounced dead by Oakland Fire personnel.

Officers learned of a second gunshot victim that may have been involved with the incident who was dropped off at an area hospital. That person died later Sunday.

Investigators are trying to determine if the two incidents are related. The victims’ identities are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

Anyone with information about the shootings can contact the Oakland Police Department’s Homicide Section at (510) 238-3821 or the TIP LINE at (510) 238-7950.

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The Port chose to close the Oakland International Terminal and the Trapac Terminal as there wasn’t sufficient staff to operate the terminals safely.

NBC Bay Area spoke with the public information officer for the Port, who said the no show was “not on [their] radar at all.”

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The unexpected closure caused massive backups of semi-trucks waiting for a worker to help them unload their goods and the help that never came.

Later, the Pacific Maritime Association tweeted about the situation, blaming the shutdown on union action.

It said that the International Longshore and Warehouse Union staged “concerted and disruptive work actions” at marine terminals up and down the West Coast. Those locations included Oakland, Los Angeles, and Seattle.

The work stoppage may be related to ongoing contract negotiations between the ILWU and the PMA.

It’s unclear at present whether this will be a one-day strike or if it will continue in the coming weeks.

Now, local and state leaders are making a call to action to help solve the problem in the form of a specific new alert system.

“We are going missing at a very alarming rate and someone needs to do something in order to make sure we are returning home,” said Taneicia Herring of the California Hawaii State Conference NAACP.

She said their names don’t appear on an Amber Alert in flashing lights.

“What makes the Ebony Alert different is we are saying ‘OK, if you are missing under an unexplained, suspicious circumstance then you are going to get the Ebony Alert and we are going to do everything we can to get you home,’” said Herring.

The NAACP is working with Senator Steven Bradford on the proposed alert system specific to missing Black children and young adults in the state. Amber alerts broadcast when a child 17 or under is missing or abducted or in imminent danger — while an Ebony Alert would include notifications for Black 12 to 25-year-olds that go missing under nearly any circumstance. 

“It speaks to the disparities that still exist not only in California but across the nation when it comes to race,” said Bradford. 

In Oakland, those disparities are growing.  

“We make up 23-24% of the population in Oakland for the Black community yet 60% of those who are missing,” said Oakland Councilmember Treva Reid. 

Out of 1,500 missing people in the city, Reird said 900 Black men, women and children make up 900 of those cases and little to none have ever received an Amber Alert. Council unanimously voted to support the bill this week. 

“For our Black women and our Black youth we are misclassified as runaways, we are misclassified as gang affiliated, we are misclassified for all these reasons that don’t bring a level of value and attention to their lives mattering,” said Reid.

Oakland community members hosted an emergency town hall Thursday night to educate parents on the dangers while empowering them with tips to keep their families safe.

Nola Brantly works with families trying to bring their missing kids home and says more needs to be done.

“When we come up missing the response is not the same as it would be for a white woman,” she said. “We need things like the Ebony Alert to say, these people matter too.”

The judge was not injured during the robbery, which happened at about 8:50 a.m. in the area of 13th and Madison streets. The sheriff’s office said the judge was also robbed of other personal belongings.

The suspects were described as three males wearing masks, according to the sheriff’s office.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the sheriff’s office at 510-667-7721.

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The incident happened in the area of 68th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, near Mills College, police said.

Firefighters at the scene told NBC Bay Area that the girl was accidentally shot in the leg, but police did not confirm the details leading up to the shooting.

No other details were immediately released.

The investigation is ongoing, police said, and anyone with information should contact OPD Felony Assault at (510) 238-3426.

This story is developing. Check back for updates.

The Hall of Famer and gold medalist retired with an undefeated record. Now, he’s telling his story, his way.

His new documentary “S.O.G: The Book of Ward” premiered at Oakland’s Fox Theater Wednesday night.

NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai sat down with Ward at his East Bay home to talk about life now, his legacy and the new documentary, streaming on Showtime.

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The robberies included an attack on a 63-year-old woman in Rockridge last Sunday and the lack of punishment is prompting concern and frustration from residents. 

“If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. But if there is no time, go ahead and do the crime, right?” said Michael Melland of Oakland. “It’s a terrible situation. I don’t think these kids need to have their lives ruined but they shouldn’t have done what they did.”

It was a crime spree that hit nearly every part of the city — in total, eight juveniles and one adult were arrested. 

“It doesn’t make people feel safe,” said Katherine Fuller, Rockridge resident.

That adult was charged with possession of stolen property, according to Oakland Police Officers Association President Sgt. Barry Donelan.   

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But it’s unclear if the kids will face any charges.

NBC Bay Area reached out to the district attorney’s office but did not hear back. Donelan says despite OPD increasing resources to address robberies and violent crimes, they are seeing the same results.  

“What you are seeing is a revolving door justice system, they are coming right out and doing the same thing,” said Donelan. “The other aspect of this that is very concerning is the number of firearms that are involved.”

There’s more than 900 robberies in the city this year — a 7% increase over the same time last year, according to crimemapping.com. Nearly 60% of those crimes involved a gun.  

“We are out there making the arrest, tracking down the suspects, but unfortunately, they are not being charged,” said Donelan.

Frustrations boiled over in a meeting with Oakland city leaders and police Tuesday night. 

Residents and business owners demanded the city take more action to address the uptick in crime. 

“We’re almost encouraging this type of behavior and we’re not doing the little things. All I hear you talking about is, we can’t do this because of this limitation,” said pizza shop owner Adam Stemmler.

Last week, Mayor Sheng Thao vowed to provide more resources to help address root causes for youth crimes.   

While some in the community argue serving time is not a solution, others believe teaching youth tough lessons now will prevent a culture of crime in the community going forward.  

“People don’t steal just because they want to steal, generally speaking. It’s a large-scale social problem and we need to invest in root causes,” said Craig Segall, Rockridge resident.

“If we are telling them it’s OK to do this at a young age, what are they going to do when they get older?” said Fuller. “We are just perpetuating the cycle of behavior.”

The community gathered Tuesday night after a 63-year-old woman was attacked outside Market Hall last Sunday.

Police say the attackers were part of a group of nine teens and pre-teens — busted for dozens of robberies.

Oakland city leaders, police, residents and business owners gathered at Oakland Tech to talk about the incident and recent uptick in crime.

The discussion quickly got heated.

“We’re almost encouraging this type of behavior and we’re not doing the little things. All I hear you talking about is, ‘we can’t do this because of this limitation, we can’t do that,’” said Adam Stemmler.

He owns Arthur Mac’s Tap and Snack on Martin Luther King Jr Way.

He says his pizza shop has been broken into several times. His workers don’t feel safe and his customers get their cars broken into. 

He spoke directly to city councilmember Dan Kalb at the meeting.

“Dan, with all due respect, you ignore us,” he said. “My business person emails you all the time.”

Kalb hosted the meeting, along with the Oakland Police Department and Department of Violence Prevention.

“People are rightfully concerned and have certain fears about it that I totally understand and I share those concerns and frustrations,” said Kalb. 

There have been about a dozen robberies in the Rockridge neighborhood so far this year.

In total, the city of Oakland has had more than 900 robberies this year, according to crimemapping.com.

Nearly 60% involved a gun and about 30% were strong-arm robberies. 

So, what’s the answer?

“The key is we need to hold them accountable. To hold these perpetrators accountable. That could involve various psychological testing, programs they must be required to go through, probation while they’re temporarily incarcerated, all sorts of things can happen. But nothing can happen if you don’t catch these people. So you have to catch them, then give them appropriate consequences,” said Kalb.

Residents say they’re frustrated, but still hopeful, and it’s all easier said than done.

“We’re underfunded, we’re understaffed, we’re under-resourced and it kind of feels like the ‘Wild West’ where we’re at. And for us, it’s really about safety. We love Oakland,” said Stemmler. 

The property that housed the Ghost Ship warehouse was acquired by The Unity Council, a nonprofit community development organization based in Oakland.

The council’s CEO Chris Iglesias told the Bay Area News Group last week that they plan to move forward with care, knowing how sensitive the issue is for the families of those who died when a fire broke out in the warehouse during a Dec. 2, 2016, electronic music party.

“We just want to be really, really thoughtful in this process and just understand what a tragic event this was to them,” he said.

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No cause was determined in the fire, but a likely electrical overload filled the warehouse with smoke and flames that quickly trapped partygoers inside. The building had been illegally converted into a live-work space and lacked working exits and fire extinguishers. A jumble of extension cords, rugs, old sofas and other flammable items crammed the structure.

Prosecutors charged Derick Almena, the master tenant on the lease who also lived in the building with his wife and children, and resident Max Harris with the deaths. A jury acquitted Harris in 2019, but Almena’s trial ended in a hung jury.

In 2021, he pleaded guilty to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter and served the rest of his sentence on home arrest.

Mournful family and friends packed the courtroom for the trial.

The fire exposed flaws in the city’s fire inspections, and Oakland settled lawsuits from victims and their families for $33 million.

The first shooting happened just before 9:45 p.m. on International Boulevard.

When officers arrived, the victim had taken themselves to the hospital. Police said they believe they were hit by a stray bullet.

The victim is expected to be OK.

The second shooting happened a 11:15 p.m. on 38th Avenue and Masterson Street.

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Officers arrived at the scene and found someone who had been shot. Paramedics took them to the hospital.

They are now recovering and expected to be OK.

A third shooting happened just after 11 a.m. Saturday happened at the Valero gas station near Macarthur and Seminary.

When officers got there, they found one person who had been shot. Police said the victim died at the scene.

No word on any arrests or possible suspects.

The fire chief joined city leaders and community members Thursday to announce a pilot program that will test out realtime fire monitoring sensors.

There are 10 sensors placed in critical areas in Oakland that will monitor air quality and can detect a fire up to 2 miles away, then notify firefighters.

“Ten air quality sensors will be installed throughout the wildland urban interface area of the city of Oakland. These sensors will continually sample air quality. Once again, no audio, no visual sensors,” said Oakland Fire Department Chief Reginald Freeman.

This pilot is in partnership with the technology company N5 sensors.  

“They’re gas and particulate sensors, chemical sensors, and heat sensors and they work in conjunction with artificial intelligence to identify when a fire has been lit and we can give an immediate notification, 24/7 completely unattended operation to the dispatch center letting them know of a fire,” said Debra Deininger of N5 Sensors.

Some neighbors who lost homes in the Oakland Hills firestorms in 1991, like Carolyn Burgess, were at the announcement to hear about the technology.

“I lost everything. I lost my neighborhood, as far as you could see, was gone,” she said. “It’s great I can not tell you what it’s like in the middle of summer and the wind is blowing. I wake up and I walk around and look out the windows of my newly-built, not newly-built now, but rebuilt home and look and see if there is anything. Any fire, any smoke and so this will give us a little more peacefulness.”

The pilot program is expected to run for 24 months.

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Officers first got reports of a crash on the westbound side of the freeway near the Keller Avenue exit around 2 p.m. When they got there, they realized it was a shooting that caused the crash.

Westbound lanes were shut down for a few hours but reopened by 6 p.m.

One person in one car suffered minor injuries, and the person in the other car was not injured, the CHP said.

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CHP spokesperson Officer Andrew Barclay said Thursday night that a CHP officer was traveling on eastbound Interstate 580 when the officer noticed what was the aftermath of the collision on the other side of the freeway.

The officer exited the freeway to get to the westbound lanes. At the scene was the collision between a white Ford Escape and a silver Dodge Ram, the latter of which was towing another vehicle.

Barclay said CHP investigators are looking at the likelihood of a road rage incident between the two drivers prior to the collision.

One of the drivers used a firearm to shoot one round at the other vehicle. No one was hurt from the gunshot. Investigators are trying to determine who fired the shot.

A CHP K-9 officer was brought to the scene to locate the firearm, which was found on the ground near the collision.

Both drivers were detained at the scene for questioning as part of the investigation. As of Thursday evening, neither has been arrested. There were no passengers inside either of the vehicles.

The CHP continues to investigate the incident.

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In a post on Instagram, chef and owner Imana said that on Tuesday night, thieves shattered a glass door, broke a cash register and threw an upstairs safe downstairs.

She said the restaurant is a mess and it will take a long time to clean up. So, she’s decided to close the restaurant for good. 

Hi Felicia opened last year after starting as a Supper Club run out of an apartment. 

Imana said that while the doors to Hi Felicia have closed, she’s already planning her next project.

She eventually hopes to open a wine bar at the same location.

The man identified the girl as Sofía Lorenzo, and her mother as Rosa, a woman originally from Michoacán, Mexico.

“Rosa spoke to her sister in Sacramento, told her that she had killed Sofía,” said Federico. “She also said goodbye because she wanted to kill herself. Which didn’t turn out the way she wanted because as far as I know, she’s getting better.”

Federico said that his daughter’s mother had no history of being violent with her and doesn’t understand how something like this could happen.

“I don’t understand why she did this, I can’t figure out how she killed her own daughter,” he said.

He said that the last time he saw Sofía was on Mother’s Day and that he noticed odd behavior. “She didn’t want to come home, she didn’t feel like playing, or even talking,” said Federico. 

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He said he feels this is all a nightmare he wishes he could wake up from and said the little girl was everything to him.

“She was a good girl, very social, very playful,” said Federico. 

Sofia had just turned 10 and according to her father, she loved school and talked about buying a big house for her family one day. 

Federico and Rosa were already separated and he said he wants her to pay for what she allegedly did.

“I am going to make sure she rots in prison,” he said. “She doesn’t deserve forgiveness from God for what she did.”

The police confirmed that the person involved in this case is in stable condition at the hospital, but they have not provided further details.

Robberies are up 7 percent so far this year compared to the same period last year, and the trend includes an increase in youth involvement, police said.

Thao said her proposed budget invests in a new Department of Children, Youth and Families, which may help address the root causes of crime among youth.

“We will give more resources to our young people,” Thao told reporters Wednesday morning. “But we will also make sure there is justice.”

Police are reinvesting in foot patrols in business corridors and are bringing back motorcycle officers, Thao said. Oakland is also partnering with the California Highway Patrol, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies to improve safety, she said.

Acting Police Chief Darren Allison said Oakland has seen a surge in violence in recent weeks and asked the community to come together.

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Fifty robberies occurred in a recent 72-hour period, Allison said.

The mayor’s proposed budget includes nearly $724 million for Oakland police over two years. From the General Fund alone, police could receive just over $685 million.

The Oakland Department of Violence Prevention, which aims to prevent violence among youth and others, could get $9 million next year and $10 million the following year if the Oakland City Council approves the mayor’s budget proposal.

Kentrell Killens, interim chief of that department, said it offers young people the opportunity to connect with services to make a difference in the decisions and outcomes of their personal lives.

“These are our babies,” Killens said. “These are our children.”

Services are also available to families of the young people, he said.

Thao said in her mind, no one would choose a life of crime, so getting to the root causes is important.

“Resources are key, consequences are key,” said Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife, whose district include several business corridors such as Jack London Square and downtown.

Fife said it’s important to look at why youth are committing these crimes. She thinks the crimes are probably connected to adults.

Thao said she is taking a comprehensive approach to the crime, hence she’s partnering with the Department of Violence Prevention and police. She said the plan will work, though did not say how much it will cost.

“We know here in the city of Oakland and in any city, that all families deserve to feel safe,” Thao said. “And what we have seen in recent weeks and months has been disheartening.”

The youths — six boys and three girls, ages 12 to 17 — were arrested Sunday, police said. Eight are Oakland residents.

The arrests came after officers saw a vehicle connected to a series of robberies in the city and followed it to the 100 block of 14th Street. The vehicle stopped in front of an establishment and several people went inside, police said.

When officers entered, the suspects’ vehicle sped away, according to police.

Oakland’s police helicopter followed the vehicle to Sixth Avenue and East 15th Street where four people got out and ran, police said. Officers chased and apprehended them.

Five others were arrested at the establishment on 14th Street, according to police.

The 35 robberies took place in a variety of neighborhoods including Rockridge, Chinatown, Adams Point, Grand Lake, Fruitvale, Temescal and Uptown, police said.

Robberies are up 7% this year in Oakland over the same period a year ago.

He stopped them by using his own truck to literally drive the suspects out. 

It happened last week at a gas station near the Oakland Airport that has become notorious for car break-ins. 

“No one should have to live in fear in America,” said tow truck driver Andy.

Surveillance video shows the tow truck takedown of multiple suspects reportedly attempting to rob a woman pumping gas at the Shell station on Hegenberger.

Andy is the man behind the wheel who admits to deliberately running into their car to prevent them from breaking into others.    

He said it all started when he saw one of the masked suspects get out of the car with a gun.  

“He starts coming up and I’m like ‘OK I’m going to use the first thing that I have available,’” said Andy. “So I end up pushing their car, getting her out of harm’s way.”  

The area is a hot spot for car break-ins with the gas stations averaging 15 break-ins a day.  

According to police, the three suspects broke into one vehicle before Andy intervened.  

But that’s not where it stops. Video from across the street shows the tow truck hitting the suspect’s SUV again, and one man tries to hop into the getaway car before getting run over by his own SUV.

The getaway car circles the gas station to pick up the injured suspect Andy chases them down the street. He explains his goal was to stop the SUV long enough for police to arrive. 

“I wish them the best but I also look at it this way; how many people have you hurt and robbed and everything else?” said Andy.

It was actually his second encounter with the suspects. Just minutes before that, he chased them off the parking lot across the street after seeing them attempt to break into cars there.

When he took pictures of the suspects, that’s when he said they pointed a gun and threatened him. 

Cindy Varela owns nearby restaurant Juanita’s and explains the string of car break-ins are driving away business. She said she saw Andy intervene. 

“I think what he did was right but was dangerous because the people can come back and harm him and they had weapons. It was scary,” she said. 

OPD is urging victim’s to not resist and urging witnesses not to intervene, but Andy says he doesn’t regret stepping in. 

“I’m not trying to be a vigilante,” he said. “If I think you are going to get robbed or hurt, I’m going to intervene and I’m going to intervene to the point where you know what, it’s going to stop it or it’s going to prevent it.”

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The path to graduation hasn’t been easy and it’s been far from traditional for the class of 2023.

They survived not only high school, but a pandemic, remote learning, historic wildfire seasons and a teacher’s strike that shut down classes, once again, weeks before their graduation.  

“I’m ready to grab that diploma,” said graduating senior Khoa Nguyen. “It was a pretty long journey, it was pretty difficult too.”

Elizabeth Feng was a freshman in March of 2020 when students were ordered to stay home — initially for a few weeks, and ultimately, for a year and a half. 

“We were all like ‘yay, we get off time from school’ we all thought it was going to be two weeks and then I think we soon realized it wasn’t going to be just two weeks,” said Feng. 

When she did return, it was with a mask, social distancing, and frequent testing. Now she is planning to go to UC Berkeley in the fall. 

“I think overall it just made us stronger and really appreciate the little things that we had,” said Feng.

A combination of struggling with remote learning and fierce fire seasons added to high school challenges for Daviant Price. 

“Most of my high school experience was ruined by climate change. Right now, I’m going to Laney to be an electrician but when I was a freshman I wanted to be an astrophysicist,” said Price. “I remember the pandemic decreasing my motivation for school.”

Other classmates believe the pandemic gave them an advantage for life post high school  

“I started to be more calm, I started to change and I started to focus more on school and to actually start being smarter with my decision making,” said Nguyen.

Four years later, despite the obstacles, the class of 2023 is wearing their gown and caps with pride and reveling in the lessons learned beyond the classroom 

“It just feels amazing that we did it and we did it as a community. We all never gave up on having our main goal of graduating,” said Feng.

Officers on Monday just before noon were sent to the 4500 block of Bancroft Avenue after receiving a call for a possible shooting or stabbing in the area. When officers arrived on scene, they located a knife outside a residence with blood on it.

Based on the information they had at the time and safety concerns for potential victims and residents in the area, officers forced entry into the residence and found an unresponsive girl suffering from severe trauma to her neck, police said. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

“When officers arrived, they didn’t see any evidence of a shooting, but they did locate a knife outside the residence, with blood on it,” said Darren Allison of the Oakland Police Department.

They also found her mother in the home hurting herself with another knife.

“The mother killed her. The mom’s in the hospital. I’ve got the real father standing here with his family member,” said Oakland Councilmember Noel Gallo. 

The girl’s father was at the crime scene as soon as he heard about the incident and was talking to detectives.

His parents lived in the apartment below his daughter and his ex-wife and remained there even after dad left the apartments two years ago.

Gallo said the mom was troubled with a mental disorder and police had responded to calls to help her in the past. But there was never violence like this before, according to police.

“As a parent, I know that there’s nothing more that tears at the heart than the loss of a child,” said Allison. 

Neighbors said they couldn’t find words to describe the senseless loss of an innocent young life. 

“Extremely sad, I can’t believe this is happening in the streets here of Oakland, that I grew up in here in east Oakland,” said Gallo.

The mother was listed in critical condition at an Oakland hospital.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Oakland police homicide unit at 510-238-3821.

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The first shooting happened in the 7600 block of Bancroft Avenue at around 11:45 p.m. Officers found a person who had been injured by gunfire. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Around the same time, an Oakland hospital notified the police of a victim who had arrived with injuries due to gunfire. Police later determined the person had been injured during the shooting in the 7600 block of Bancroft Avenue. 

The person in the hospital is currently in stable condition. 

The second shooting happened around 3:30 a.m. in the 10000 block of C Street. Officers found one person with a gunshot wound. The person died at the scene. 

The motives of the shootings are not known at this time.

Oakland Police ask anyone with information about either shooting to contact them at (510) 238-3821.

According to the Ronald McDonald House Charities, families who have children being treated at the Oakland hospital can receive several services, including overnight housing for little to no money as well as daily lunches and dinners. 

“The most important thing that this house provides is community. The community of support that’s created when families come together during times of incredible stress,” said Laura Boudreau, CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities Bay Area. “And the community that grows around them, the volunteers and the partners and the donors who let them know that they’re not alone.”

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The non-profit celebrated the new house with a block party Saturday. Attendees had a chance to enjoy food trucks, house tours and live music. Kids also got to meet Oakland firefighters and even Ronald McDonald himself. 

This is the third Ronald McDonald house opened in the Bay Area. The others are in Stanford and San Francisco.

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Police said it happened about 1 a.m. on International Boulevard near 55th Avenue.

Officers said that some people started fighting and someone started shooting.

Two people drove themselves to the hospital. One of the victims is expected to be Ok.

The other victim is in critical condition.

No word on any arrests.

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The incident happened Thursday at the Shell gas station on Helgenberger Road, near the Oakland Airport. The area is a known high crime area.

In the video, the driver of a tow truck is seen stopping a would-be thief by ramming the suspects’ car.

Witnesses said that a man was trying to break into a woman’s car and that’s when the tow truck driver took action to stop the suspect. Witnesses added the would-be thief had a weapon.

Audrey Asistio has more in the video above.

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The owner said he’s spent thousands tackling the problem and is getting zero help from the city or from police.

Ian Taha, owner of Metro by T Mobile store in Oakland cell phone store says it’s been nearly impossible to keep his store looking nice.

“This business has been getting vandalized by graffiti for the last 12 months and it’s getting worse,” he said.

Graffiti vandals have been hitting Taha’s business every few weeks, tagging the walls and even the windows of his International Boulevard shop.

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“I understand graffiti can be art, but not when it’s all on our business that we don’t want to be on our business,” he said.

Taha added that he has invested in an elaborate video surveillance system, capturing the culprits in the act.

He said that he’s filed numerous police reports that contain the videos but says police and the city have not helped.

“We need help we can’t do it by ourselves. We have the images, we have the evidence, we have everything, we just now need somebody to take the case and start prosecuting,” he said.

Taha’s store isn’t the only one getting hit, other businesses on International Blvd are too. He said that many of his neighbors have simply given up on cleaning up.

Taha told NBC Bay Area that he’s spent thousands of dollars on cleaning supplies and countless hours scrubbing. He’s not certain how much longer he can keep up.

“The last thing we want to do is relocate out of the city and it’ll become another vacant property in the city of Oakland and I think that’s the last thing anybody wants,” he said.

Taha hopes the city tackles the problem soon. He’s offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

The investigation began when a video circulating on social media showed a driver, identified as 61-year-old Tracy Robert Blackwell of Newark, yelling racial slurs at another driver on southbound Interstate 880 near Hegenberger Road.

The video was recorded on Tuesday at around 4 p.m.

At one point, the video shows Blackwell intentionally ramming the victim’s car before losing control and crashing into the freeway shoulder, police said.

He was arrested around 12 p.m. Friday and booked into the Alameda County Jail on charges of assault with a deadly weapon with hate crime enhancements, police said.

Members of the California Big City Mayors coalition met with legislators and the governor at the state Capitol in Sacramento and called on the governor to allocate $2 billion annually to the state’s Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention Program, known as HHAP, and $1.5 billion to the state’s Homekey program that has utilized a variety of housing options, including purchasing former hotels.

The coalition consists of the mayors of California’s largest 13 cities by population: Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach, Oakland, Bakersfield, Anaheim, Stockton, Riverside and Irvine. The group’s chair, San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, said cities have been making progress on creating housing to try to reduce their homeless and unsheltered populations, but said the mayors needed continued partnership with state lawmakers to address the scale of the problem.

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“We acknowledge that it’s hard for many Californians to see these results and that’s because we’re simply not keeping pace with the number of people who are becoming newly homeless,” Gloria said.

He said funding needed to be made permanent, tied to practical goals, but also flexible for local leaders.

“Homelessness is solvable, but we need the resources to scale the projects and programs to have an impact,” Gloria said.

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan echoed the call for flexibility in utilizing state funding in these areas and said the solution should involve a spectrum of housing options to address the imminent goal of getting people “indoors to safe, managed spaces.”

“For the first time in seven years we have reduced unsheltered homelessness in San Jose primarily because we were building emergency interim housing that gives people a private room with the door that locks, a private bathroom, a dignified safe space at a fraction of the cost of building long-term permanent housing,” Mahan said.

He said permanent housing is still needed, but cities should be focused on ending what he called a human rights crisis by focusing on getting people shelter through any means available.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said making the funding permanent would bring an element of predictability that has been missing from the state’s efforts to support cities, as budgets have gone up and down as the state faced recession, the pandemic, a temporary influx of federal dollars and is now facing another economic slowdown in coming fiscal years.

“The need in our cities is so significant,” Breed said.

HHAP funds have been given as grants on a yearly basis since 2018. Newsom’s most recent budget proposal includes $1 billion in HHAP funding only for the next fiscal year.

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao said the issue was both a national one and a personal one.

“I want to first speak from the perspective of someone who was forced to live in my car,” Thao said. “The access to safe, permanent and dignified housing should not be seen as the American dream. It should be seen as the human right. It should be seen as dignified housing. It should be seen as [a] basic necessity. And this is why of course we are here today.”

The mayors also announced their support for Senate Bill 43, a bill authored by state Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, that would alter California’s Mental Health Services Act to provide permanent funding for more shelter beds dedicated to people experiencing mental health and addiction crises.

The Homekey program has allowed the mayors, who collectively serve about 11 million Californians, to create 15,755 new emergency shelter beds and interim homes, place 19,474 people into housing intervention programs and create 5,101 permanent homes, according to a report released Wednesday by the mayoral coalition.

Authorities were searching for a white Chevrolet pickup truck after witnesses reported the possible kidnapping about 2 p.m. Tuesday, when two men were seen forcing a female into the truck in the 10200 block of E Street.

The truck was found and determined to be stolen, police said Wednesday.

An arrest was made in connection with the stolen vehicle, but police didn’t release any information about the suspect or where the truck was found.

“After a thorough search, investigators determined that no kidnapping occurred,” Oakland police said in a brief statement on social media.

The city council voted to rename part of MacArthur Boulevard in honor of the hip hop legend — the section between Grand Avenue and Van Buren Avenue, near the Grand Lake Theater.

Tupac was born in Harlem and later lived in Baltimore, Maryland; and in Marin City, California, but launched his music career in Oakland.

In 2016, city officials dedicated June 16 as Tupac Shakur Day in the city.

The resolution to rename the street in his honor, celebrates Tupac for his contributions to art and social outreach.

No timeline was provided for the name change.