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Oakland Residents Shaken By Latest Spurt of Gun Violence

Nov 12, 2021
OAKLAND (KPIX 5) — A concert at Oakland’s Fox Theater was scheduled to go on Thursday evening as planned after Wednesday’s concert was canceled when a concertgoer was shot in the arm by a stray bullet while standing outside. The shooting was one of a string of shootings in the city in the last 24 hours.

“I was terrified … I had to run for my life,” said one witness who went by the name of Prince Akeem and who was across the street from the theater. “It was several shots, about seven or eight shots.“
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