Police
According to the Oakland Police Department, a three-year-old boy shot this afternoon during a drive-by in East Oakland has died.
According to the Oakland Police Department, three separate shootings claimed the lives of three people during approximately three hours early Sunday morning.
Oakland police are asking for the public’s help in locating a turquoise mini-van that investigators believe may be linked to the July 27 murder of Paris Powell, the man shot while feeding the homeless in East Oakland.
One of the two men charged with murder in the death of Monica Rodas appeared in court Thursday morning but did not enter a plea.
The Oakland Police Department is reporting that at approximately 12:30 am on Wednesday, a man and a woman who were feeding the homeless on 47th Avenue in East Oakland were shot by an unknown person who pulled up alongside them in a car.
According to a press release issued by the Oakland Police Department Tuesday evening, two men are being held in connection with the July 14 murder of Monica Rodas, whose body was found burning on a residential Rockridge Street last week.
The Oakland Police Department today identified Monica Rodas, 21, of Union City, as the woman found burned on a Rockridge street early Thursday morning.
Early Thursday morning, Oakland police officers and firefighters were called out to investigate a fire on the 5800 block of Ivanhoe Road in the Rockridge area and discovered the body of a woman burning in the street.
A 19-year-old Oakland resident was shot at approximately 9:30 pm Tuesday by a robber who made off with his backpack, according to a press release from the Oakland Police Department.