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Oakland: Man shot and killed near Coliseum BART station, police say 10th homicide in the last seven days, 4th since Saturday

Sep 20, 2021
By SUMMER LIN | slin@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: September 20, 2021 at 3:10 p.m. | UPDATED: September 20, 2021 at 3:10 p.m.

OAKLAND — Police said they’re investigating the city’s 100th homicide of this year after a shooting near the Coliseum BART station took the life of one man.

The murder marked the 10th homicide in a 7-day period and the fourth since Saturday, Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said at a Monday afternoon press conference.

“So much violence, so many guns, so many senseless lives lost. If this is not a calling to everybody in this community that there is a crisis I don’t know what is,” Armstrong said. “The fact of the matter is we haven’t spoken loud enough about the violence that we’ve experienced; we haven’t talked about the now 100 lives that have been lost in our community.”

Armstrong said that police responded Monday morning to the 7200 block of San Leandro Street near the BART station to a report of multiple shots fired and discovered a man who died from from gunshot wounds, according to police. The identity of the victim has not been released.

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Authorities responded to a shooting on Saturday at at about 11:00 p.m. on the 2300 block of Legion Avenue and when officers arrived, they found that a 30-year-old man, who was outside a house party, had been shot multiple times and died at the scene.

Oakland police responded to a shooting around 2:15 a.m. Sunday at the 300 block of 17th Street in which a 28-year-old man from Stockton was shot and killed and three others were injured. The victim’s man has not yet been released.

Later on Sunday at 2:30 p.m., police responded to a shooting at the 2300 block of Humboldt Avenue in which a 23-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the victim had gotten into a fight with another man and the suspect fled the scene.

Oakland police said the killing is the 100th homicide this year and the 10th since last Monday but it’s the 99th killing according to a count by Bay Area News Group. The city reported its 100th homicide last year in December and 109 homicides in total.
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