Posts Tagged ‘homicide’
With gun deaths rising, Lee calls Oakland meeting
Last year, Oakland’s homicide numbers rose for first time in two years. As a result, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) convened a town hall in Oakland.
Read MoreAfter her own tragic loss, Lorrain Taylor charts a path for mothers who have lost children to gun violence
In 2006, Taylor founded 1,000 Mothers to Prevent Violence as an organization to provide practical support to families who have lost someone to homicide. “Someone one day asked me: ‘What is it that you do?’” said Taylor. “It is not an ‘it.’ It all depends on the family’s needs.”
Read MoreReport shows growing racial disparities in Oakland residents’ health
A major report on urban health in America has given Oakland mixed grades.
Read MoreFBI, OPD joint task force increases homicide cases solved in Oakland
The Oakland Police Department and the FBI have been partnered together since June 2014 to tackle the large amount of homicide active and cold cases still under investigation. Almost a year later, a physical new joint workspace in the OPD administration building is now near completion and a new billboard campaign has been launched, resulting in a staggering significant amount of cases that are being solved.
Read MoreSlain rapper The Jacka leaves legacy in the Bay Area
The hip-hop community is mourning the loss of the Jacka, 37, whose given name was Dominic Newton. For many, the death of the rapper also means the loss of a mentor to at-risk youth and young artists in the Bay Area.
Read MoreFriends and family gather to remember shooting victim Isaiah Sudan: “The violence needs to stop”
For three months, Phyllis left her house every night at 9:30 p.m., stood on the sidewalk and looked around, the streetlight illuminating 54th Street in a fluorescent haze. She studied the windows of the homes next door and across the street, wondering if anyone inside might have peered out and seen what happened on the…
Read MoreOakland goes six weeks without a murder, the longest stretch in 15 years
For six weeks this summer, no one was murdered in Oakland, the longest stretch without an unlawful killing since the 1990s. That streak was broken on Sunday, September 14.
Read MoreOscar Grant family reaches out to mother of Kenneth Harding
On a Saturday afternoon in July, 2011, Kenneth Harding Jr., 19, lay stomach down in his own blood, fighting for his life on the corner of 3rd Street and Palou Avenue in the heart of the Bay View Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco. Some say San Francisco police officers shot Harding after he allegedly evaded…
Read MoreAt St. Columba Church, Oaklanders honor this year’s 102 victims of homicide
Oakland residents gathered outside St. Columba Catholic Church on Friday to honor the 102 people who have died because of violence in the past year.
Read More“What is justice?” Inside a death penalty trial
In 2001, Christopher Evans murdered two people at 85th Avenue and International Boulevard in East Oakland, setting him up for either the death penalty or a sentence of life without parole. This week, a jury of his peers would return a verdict on his fate. A look at what they considered and what they decided.
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