Oakland’s First Friday and Art Murmur returned this past week after February’s street festival ended in tragedy when 18-year-old Kiante Campbell was shot and killed at 20th Street and Telegraph Avenue. That First Friday could have been the city’s last. The monthly night gathering attracts thousands for its food, music Read More…
An elderly man is in custody after firing a gun during an emergency call Monday morning that grazed a responding firefighter. Read More…
Employees of a local dance and music venue are in the hospital after being shot during an armed robbery early Saturday morning. Read More…
Berkeley Police officers have responded to a shot allegedly fired in a home located near the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Addison Street Wednesday night. Read More…
Berkeley police officers shot and injured a man during a shooting Friday evening. A little after 10:30 p.m. Friday, officers were searching for a man who had fled from a vehicle stop. Officers spotted the suspect in an apartment near 8th and Delaware streets in West Berkeley, according to a Read More…
Around this time in 2011, Berkeley saw its first and last homicide of the year. Less than four months into 2012, the city has already seen three homicides as well as multiple nonfatal shootings, alarming residents who live in neighborhoods struck by the violence. The city’s first homicide of 2012 Read More…
Police stressed the importance of community involvement in maintaining public safety at a meeting held Monday night to discuss the two shootings that injured a total of six people in the city earlier this month. At the meeting — which was held by Berkeley City Councilmember Darryl Moore at the Read More…
In response to two shootings in a Berkeley neighborhood early this month, a city council member is holding a meeting to discuss public safety Monday evening. The meeting will be held by Berkeley City Councilmember Darryl Moore — who represents the West Berkeley area, where the two shooting incidents occurred Read More…
Three men were injured Sunday in an early morning shooting in West Berkeley, according to police. At around 12:51 a.m. Sunday, the Berkeley Police Department received multiple reports about gunshots heard around 7th and Addison streets, according to press release from Sgt. Mary Kusmiss sent out Monday afternoon. According to Read More…
A 17-year-old Berkeley High School student was shot on the way to school by a gunman on a bicycle around 8:15 a.m. Thursday. The boy was shot near the intersection of Lowell and Market streets in North Oakland, the Oakland Tribune reports. The student is currently stable, according to an Read More…
