Crime & Safety

Man Injured in Second North Oakland Shooting

The shooting took place Tuesday afternoon on 60th Street, between Colby Street and Telegraph Avenue.

Bay City News Service—A shooting was reported in North Oakland Tuesday afternoon, just blocks from where another victim was shot on Monday night.

Tuesday's shooting was reported at 2:34 p.m. in the 400 block of 60th Street (between Colby Street and Telegraph Avenue).

A man found shot there was taken to a hospital in stable condition but was uncooperative with the police investigation, said Officer J. Moore of the Oakland Police Department.

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Monday night a victim was hospitalized after suffering a gunshot wound in the 500 block of 59th Street, less than half a mile away. Police have not identified any suspects in the shootings.

In other, separate shootings in Oakland Tuesday, a man was killed and another person injured.

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The homicide was reported at 8:39 p.m. in the 800 block of Hawkins Drive near 92nd Avenue in East Oakland, Moore said. Police found a man suffering from gunshot wounds who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Just minutes later across the city a woman was shot, Moore said. The shooting was reported at 8:41 p.m. in the 900 block of 18th Street in West Oakland. The woman victim was transported to a hospital in stable condition, Moore said.

Police have not identified any suspects in either of those shootings.

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