The Grand Avenue incident may be the largest mass shooting in the city’s history.
Oakland police officers respond to a multiple shooting during a Juneteenth celebration near Lake Merritt on Grand and Bellevue avenues in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Police now say 14 people were wounded, not 15 as originally reported.
In a news release Tuesday, police said that less than a half-hour after the mass shooting, which happened about 8:45 p.m. June 19 in the 400 block of Grand Avenue, officers were dispatched to another shooting in the area of 10th Avenue and East 24th Street.
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