15-Year-Old Oakland Girl Dies Of Gunshot Wounds
OAKLAND — A 15-year-old girl, wounded in a Saturday evening shooting in Oakland, has died of her injuries becoming the city’s 34th homicide of the year.READ MORE:“The tragedy of a 15-year-old girl’s life being extinguished in Oakland epitomizes the violence our city’s residents and police officers see daily,” said OPOA President Barry Donelan in a news release.
She was taken to a local hospital, but succumbed to her injuries early Sunday morning. No other details of the shooting have been released. The slaying came during a weekend of gun violence on city streets. There were five separate shootings between Friday night and Saturday morning that injured five people.All five were reported in stable condition at local hospitals, according to a news release Saturday night from the Oakland Police Department. The shootings all happened in the space of seven hours starting Friday evening.
Two other people were shot about 10 p.m. in separate incidents. Police found two people with gunshot injuries – one person in the 21900 block of Lakeshore Avenue and another in the area of 96th Avenue and Plymouth Street.
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