Chief LeRonne Armstrong says there were more than 30 rounds fired at Oakland school on Wednesday, and likely gang-related.
While Alameda County Sheriff's Lt. Ray Kelly initially told ABC7 News that this shooting was "probably a targeted event," Oakland police say they are still looking into all possibilities.
ABC7 News spoke to a parent who was on the scene picking up his 4-year-old daughter at the elementary school. "You hear about this happening all the time... it's the closest it's ever got to home. It's a surreal feeling and you panic, you just want to get to your daughter," the parent said. He said that he is fortunate his young daughter is clueless as to what was happening.
"Getting the people that are most responsible for the crime off the street is the most important part and that's not happening, the judges are not keeping them in jail," Brenda Grisham, Chair of the Oakland Violence Prevention Coalition said. "They need to sit down, because if you get them in jail the first time, they can't commit the second crime."
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