Police are investigating a fatal shooting outside the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland Tuesday afternoon that briefly kept trains from stopping there.
At 2:57 p.m., BART said trains were not stopping at Lake Merritt in the Dublin/Pleasanton, Berryessa, Richmond and Daly City directions because of police activity.
Trains are not stopping at Lake Merritt in the Dublin / Pleasanton, Berryessa, Richmond and Daly City directions due to police activity.Video from above the station showed police officers gathered around what appeared to be a yellow tarp over a body on the plaza level outside the station. BART officials later confirmed that a person was fatally shot at the street level near the Lake Merritt station by the bus zone just after 2:30 p.m.Over a dozen police units could be seen on the block surrounding the Lake Merritt BART station entrance along with an Oakland Fire Department paramedic and an ambulance. Officers are looking for suspects who may or may not have entered the BART system. No suspect information has been provided by police.
As of around 3:10 p.m., BART officials confirmed that trains were once again stopping at the station as the investigation into the incident continued.
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