OAKLAND — Two separate shootings on Friday night and Saturday morning left two men seriously injured in East Oakland, police said.
According to police, an unknown shooter allegedly got out of a parked vehicle and shot a 21-year-old man, who was reportedly walking at about 6:38 p.m. Friday along the 2800 block of Havenscourt Boulevard. The victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds, police said, and was reportedly taken to an area hospital.
Police reported the man was in stable condition by Saturday afternoon.
The shooter reportedly fled on foot before police arrived, according to authorities.
In another violent encounter this weekend, police said a large group of people reportedly gathered at about 3 a.m. Saturday in a cul-de-sac in the 1300 block of Lakeshore Avenue before an argument ended with someone shooting another 24-year-old Oakland man in the head.
Before police arrived, bystanders took the victim to a hospital where he was reported to be in grave condition, according to police. Authorities initially reported the victim to be a man in his 20s, though by Saturday were still trying to confirm his identity.
The suspect reportedly fled before police arrived.
The area surrounding Saturday’s shooting near Lake Merritt has been marred by other violent encounters in recent years, including several fatal shootings and a stabbing.
In August, bullets struck a 25-year-old woman and 26-year-old man in the 1300 block of Lakeshore Avenue.
In 2024, a shooter reportedly struck a 17-year-old boy at least twice in the 1400 block Lakeshore Avenue.
An unknown suspect also fatally stabbed a man in the 1200 block of Lakeshore Avenue in May 2022.
On Christmas Eve 2021, police arrested Emmanuel Gardner-Craft for his alleged connection to a fatal shooting that left Ricky Bustos, 38, dead. Gardner-Craft in 2023 later pleaded no contest to a lesser charge after prosecutors flipped the case and said he acted in self-defense after Bustos first attempted to shoot him.
Also in 2021, police arrested two men – Lashawn Price of Stockton and Torrin Dupclay of Crockett – on suspicion of fatally shooting Oakland resident Devani Aleman Sanchez, 22, in the 1400 block of Lakeshore Avenue during an attempted robbery. Prosecutors later dropped murder charges against both Price and Dupclay in December 2023 after they struck a deal and pleaded no contest to two counts of robbery in two unrelated armed holdups in Oakland that occurred three weeks after Sanchez was shot.
Court records show that Sanchez’s friend, Rosalino Salinas, could have fired the bullet that killed Sanchez after attempting to defend himself from Price, who reportedly fired off a stray bullet in an attempt to rob the two victims.
Dupclay was given a seven-year, four-month prison term, while Price was sentenced to 11 years and four months.