3rd victim dies in 3 Oakland shootings

A Sunday evening shooting in East Oakland capped off an especially violent 24 hours within the city’s borders, with police investigating three separate incidents that killed three and injured four others.

The rash of shootings comes a week after city officials showcased encouraging data marking decreases in gun violence throughout Oakland. attributed the downward trend to a community program called Ceasefire, which zeroes in on people considered at risk for committing a shooting or becoming the victim of one.

Oakland officers responded to a report of shots fired at about 7 p.m. in the 1300 block of 72nd Avenue, and found a man and woman suffering from gunshot wounds, an Oakland police spokes- woman said.

The man, a 38-year-old Oakland resident, was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was taken to a local hospital and on Monday remained in stable condition, according to authorities.

The evening gunfire was less than 2 miles away from another double shooting from several hours earlier.

Just before 1 a.m., Oakland police answered to the 9500 block of E Street to investigate a Shot Spotter alert. Authorities found two men suffering from gunshot wounds, and pronounced 21-yearold Polo Demetrio PabPolice localmo dead at the scene, said Oakland police spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson.

The second man was taken to a hospital and by Monday was listed in stable condition.

The third shooting was reported at about 2:20 a.m., and occurred several miles northwest of the other two on the 1100 block of International Boulevard near Franklin Elementary School.

The gunfire killed a 31-year-old Union City resident and injured another man and woman. Oakland police are investigating all three incidents as homicides.

Police officials last week presented a report that showed a roughly 50 percent drop in gun homicides and injuries in the past seven years, and told reporters the city’s Ceasefire program played a key role. The report showed 93 gun homicides and 617 nonfatal victims of shootings in 2011, compared with 63 homicides and 277 nonfatal gun assaults in 2017.

Oakland police reported an uptick in homicides to date in 2018 over the previous year, but fewer assaults with a firearm. As of Monday, there were 45 homicides reported in Oakland in 2018, compared with 42 by the same date in 2017, and 45 in 2016.

Reports of assaults, however, appear to continue a downward trend, with 176 tallied to date in 2018, compared with 191 at this time in 2017, and 206 in 2016.

An Oakland police spokeswoman said the shootings were not related, and there had been no arrests by early Monday evening.