Blog entry by Stephen Allen.
Last updated at Fri, 23 Jul at 12:49pm.

 

After a long night at work none would want to come home to gunshots. But that what happened this morning in Oakland.

According to Oakland Tribune, a 53 year old man was shot and killed in front of his home.

Blog entry by Stephen Allen.
Last updated at Mon, 5 Jul at 5:51pm.

 

Oakland has now reached 43 homicides of the year. Last night a man was stabbed and killed in the Fruitvale District. He was later identified by Oakland Police as Juan Mendoza-Velasquez, a Guatemalan father of four.

According to the report in the Oakland Tribune, the incident occurred at about 6p.m.

Article by Thandisizwe Chimu....
Last updated at Sun, 16 May at 6:41am.

The May 7 hearing for Johannes Mehserle, the former transit cop who killed Oscar Grant on New Year’s Day of 2009, settled several key issues prior to the beginning of the trial scheduled for June 2010.  The waters have been somewhat muddied, however, due to much of the media coverage surrounding this case, both before and after the May 7 hearing.  This essay, by the reporter covering

Blog entry by Oakland Local edi....
Last updated at Wed, 21 Apr at 9:33am.

Oakland Police Department investigators arrested two 18-year-olds last night in connection with the beating last week of a father and son in Oakland's Uptown area, authorities reported this afternoon.

The father, Tiansheng Yu, succumbed to his injuries this morning, April 20, at 11:27.

Blog entry by Stephen Allen.
Last updated at Mon, 29 Mar at 3:14pm.

A birthday is suppose to be a celebration of your forward progression, one chapter of life ending so that another can begin. I guess that's not the case if you live in the city of Oakland. Eric Toscano turned 18 on March 13, and didn't even make it two weeks before having his young and promising life ended.

Blog entry by Stephen Allen.
Last updated at Fri, 15 Jan at 1:23pm.

I wrote earlier this weekend about Oakland's first homicide of the year. Soon after we experienced our second, followed by the freeway shooting on Interstate 80.

Blog entry by Susan Mernit.
Last updated at Wed, 13 Jan at 9:40am.

Is Oakland indifferent to murder? Ten days into the New Year, we had our first homicide--and today, we had our second.