Andrew Bohan
09-14-2004, 09:50 AM
this shit went down yesterday.
i work right by the cemetery in hayward that it mentions.
2 dead, several hurt in separate shootings
Fight at cemetery may have sparked incidents later in day
A night of shootings in Oakland on Monday left two people dead and as many as 13 others hurt, and had police scrambling to sort out what occurred, authorities said.
Hayward police and Oakland police were trying to determine whether Oakland's violent night stemmed from an earlier incident in Hayward at a cemetery.
Hayward police said two groups of people attending two separate funerals at a cemetery at Mission Boulevard in Hayward had gotten into an argument at about 3:4o p.m.
About 200 people were at the cemetery at the time. One group was attending a funeral of a young man who apparently had hanged himself in a jail, while the other was mourning someone who had recently been shot and killed in Oakland, Hayward police said.
The argument between the two groups escalated into gunfire, said Hayward police Sgt. Mark Mosier.
No one was struck by bullets, but a man was chased down and beaten with hands, feet and apparently a blunt object, Mosier said. The victim was hospitalized with serious injuries.
The violence in Oakland began at 5:15 p.m., when a person was shot and killed at 82nd and Bancroft avenues. Police said at least one assailant had fled with what witnesses described as an assault rifle.
At 5:24 p.m., a gray 1992 Lincoln carrying four people -- all with gunshot wounds -- crashed into a fence at Highland Hospital, which handles the majority of gunshot victims in Oakland.
Police were investigating whether the victims in the car had been shot at 82nd and Bancroft, said Oakland police Lt. William Dorsey.
At 6:52 p.m., police received a call about another shooting near the corner of 94th Avenue and A Street, where another person was killed and several other people were hurt when somebody opened fire.
A total of 12 or 13 people were hurt in the shootings, said Oakland police Sgt. Anthony Toribio. He was unclear about the severity of those injuries or whether all those hurt had actually been shot.
Officers interviewed victims Monday night at hospitals throughout the East Bay. Hospital officials were unable to confirm the number of victims or comment on their identities.
The slayings in Oakland bring the homicide toll in the city this year to 62.
Investigators said the shootings at Bancroft and 82nd avenues and 94th and A streets were about 1 1/2 miles apart. They did not know whether the shootings were related to each other or to the Hayward argument.
"Anything's possible," said Hayward police Lt. Robert Weldon, stressing that the investigation had just begun. Weldon said police would investigate any gang links in the incidents.
i work right by the cemetery in hayward that it mentions.
2 dead, several hurt in separate shootings
Fight at cemetery may have sparked incidents later in day
A night of shootings in Oakland on Monday left two people dead and as many as 13 others hurt, and had police scrambling to sort out what occurred, authorities said.
Hayward police and Oakland police were trying to determine whether Oakland's violent night stemmed from an earlier incident in Hayward at a cemetery.
Hayward police said two groups of people attending two separate funerals at a cemetery at Mission Boulevard in Hayward had gotten into an argument at about 3:4o p.m.
About 200 people were at the cemetery at the time. One group was attending a funeral of a young man who apparently had hanged himself in a jail, while the other was mourning someone who had recently been shot and killed in Oakland, Hayward police said.
The argument between the two groups escalated into gunfire, said Hayward police Sgt. Mark Mosier.
No one was struck by bullets, but a man was chased down and beaten with hands, feet and apparently a blunt object, Mosier said. The victim was hospitalized with serious injuries.
The violence in Oakland began at 5:15 p.m., when a person was shot and killed at 82nd and Bancroft avenues. Police said at least one assailant had fled with what witnesses described as an assault rifle.
At 5:24 p.m., a gray 1992 Lincoln carrying four people -- all with gunshot wounds -- crashed into a fence at Highland Hospital, which handles the majority of gunshot victims in Oakland.
Police were investigating whether the victims in the car had been shot at 82nd and Bancroft, said Oakland police Lt. William Dorsey.
At 6:52 p.m., police received a call about another shooting near the corner of 94th Avenue and A Street, where another person was killed and several other people were hurt when somebody opened fire.
A total of 12 or 13 people were hurt in the shootings, said Oakland police Sgt. Anthony Toribio. He was unclear about the severity of those injuries or whether all those hurt had actually been shot.
Officers interviewed victims Monday night at hospitals throughout the East Bay. Hospital officials were unable to confirm the number of victims or comment on their identities.
The slayings in Oakland bring the homicide toll in the city this year to 62.
Investigators said the shootings at Bancroft and 82nd avenues and 94th and A streets were about 1 1/2 miles apart. They did not know whether the shootings were related to each other or to the Hayward argument.
"Anything's possible," said Hayward police Lt. Robert Weldon, stressing that the investigation had just begun. Weldon said police would investigate any gang links in the incidents.