"BERKELEY/Shooting Victim was hit numerous times" - Chronicle
And here's an email I received through a neighborhood mailing list:
Posted by peterme at August 17, 2004 06:43 AM
From: Don Link
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:18:31 -0700
Subject: [OPD] Shooting on Adeline 8/16/04Re the last 2 postings about the trouble on Adeline, there was a shooting at around 2 pm today, a very serious one at very close range, 3 or 4 of the shots probably at point-blank range. It occurred at Harmon and Adeline (half of that block is Harmon, the Berkeley half, the other half 65th St. in Oakland. The shooting occurred on the Northeast corner of this intersection.
I was driving to the Post Office on Adeline and approached the corner just as the shooting started. Three or four shots with no shooter in sight, then 2-3 more as he turned in the middle of the crosswalk across Harmon and fired again. He then ran south on Adeline and either had a bicycle waiting, or took one, and rode off towards Alcatraz. He crossed Alcatraz onto a small street/parking area next to the commercial area on Alcatraz and continued toward 63rd St. and 62nd St. I attempted to follow him, but traffic and the signals made effective pursuit impossible.
Berkeley PD and OPD were combing the neighborhoods of Beat 11 for the perpetrator. He is an African American male 18-22, 5'7'' or 5'8'', with a muscular build and a weight of probably 150-170 lbs. He is clean-shaven and was wearing a black or midnight blue knit cap and white clothing otherwise. His weapon was a semi-automatic gun-metal blue or black handgun with a very deep pop when the shots were fired. I don't think it was a 9 mm, but something larger, maybe a .45 caliber.
I am sorry if the young man died. There was a pool of blood just seconds after the shooting and it took the Berkeley ambulance 4-5 minutes to arrive at the site and begin triage.
I spoke to the young man's brother who appears to be middle eastern, perhaps Yemeni. One or two other relatives were there as well. Perhaps they own a business in the immediate area. They saw the perpetrator more clearly than I.
I made it a point to drive the beat looking for the perpetrator or perhaps an abandoned bicycle. I went to the hot spots to see if anyone looked familiar, but saw no one who fit the description.
I will be very interested to learn about motive and particularly whether there is any connection to the North/South Oakland/Berkeley war that went on earlier this summer and last summer with disastrous consequences.
It surprises me how upsetting and disconcerting incidences like this are after all of them that I have read about and heard about. The finality of the actions, the brazenness of the perpetrator, the aftermath and the disruptions it causes for hundreds of people unconnected to the victim and connected alike. A train wreck and a disaster for everyone involved.
I sincerely hope that the case is solved and solved quickly. The number of shots and the close-range quality of the incident make it more of an execution than a shooting. I don't believe that the victim was armed.
Don Link, Shattuck NCPC Beat 11
i, myself, am fed up with all the little shit heads who have no regard for the lives of people around them. these thugs need to be treated with a firm hand. i am sick and tired of the ultra-liberal mindset in this region of the world that feels sorry for the violent terrorists who roam the streets of the bay area. i see no difference between the actions of gang members and the actions of any global terrorist network. the 'goin nowhere' set of young thugs who hang out in front of local liquor stores as a means of intimidation need to be dealt with immediately. i call on all of the residents of this area to step up and get involved with our local police agencies. we can no longer tolerate blight and violence around our homes. we have paid good money to live in this part of the world and we deserve better for ourselves and our children. of course we want a better world for everyone, so let's put these thugs where they belong. i know these kids have had a tough life, but that is no excuse for brazen violence. i had it pretty bad myself, but you don't see me out there with a gun because my dad was a drunken child abuser. as far as i'm concerned, too many people in this world lack personal responsibility for their actions. what everyone needs to realize is that government services will never heal society, it starts at home!!!!!!!! so go out there and be proactive: write down license plates and call police if a car stereo thumps so load it rattles you glasses, call police when you see drunken youth smoking weed on the corner, plant flowers and pick up litter once and a while. live the change you want the world to be.
Posted by: octavio at August 25, 2004 08:02 AM"i see no difference between the actions of gang members and the actions of any global terrorist network."
maybe you should take your head out of your ass then. what you paid for to live in the bay area is a housing market gone out of control where people invest in houses hoping for economic security. the thuggery in oakland, specifically among black kids is obnoxious for sure, and yes there need to be some strong moral/cultural standards for these kids to live by instead of the lord of the flies mentality that exists today... but it's not all just personal choice that creates these situations. it's a combination of historical circumstance, location, local and national economics, cultural patterns, behavioral codes and an unsympathetic environment.
Octavio, Im with you. Sean, I appreciate your sense of social conciousness, your excellent grasp of the historical imperitive which contributes to the forces that create such social voids in our neighborhoods - working mothers, insane housing cost, cultural disenfrachisment and the institutionalization process which dehumanizes the "others" among us; and could give a shit. When you have two of these little baggy-pants wearing, Jay-Z thumping stickup kids hold a gun to your wife, child, grandmother (fill in the blank) and pistol whip them for their pocket-change, maybe you will drop the rhetoric and ingest a large dose of reality.
If you think these kids/teens/adults give a crap about you or anyone else but themselves, and the "historical forces at work," try going to 22nd and East 14th and striking up a little friendly one-on-one. Im sure it will be a learning experience.
d from the city called oakland
Oh right, as soon as i'm full of emotion i'll understand the plight of poor Oakland conservatives. I've had Black kids fuck with me and my family so many damn times... i'm not into it, but it doesn't mean that they're fucking terrorists. That's bullshit. And, if i'm going to fucking E 14th and 22nd, what, i need to speak Spanish or Viet Namese or something.
Posted by: Sean Aaberg at September 28, 2004 09:59 PMI dissagree with the other coments posted!!! You guys are judging people you dont even know or understand! while you guys are sitting in your nice homes without a worrie on your mind other than being nosie about what other people are doing or how loud thier house is, other people are suffering and struggling just to make it by. Not everone can afford college or to shop at the berkeley bowl! I think you need to take a good look in the miror before you go on insulting o6thers peoples cultures. So maybe we don't listen to the same must or dress like you. But just because we dress a certain way it dosen't mean we're all in gangs. you'd think you people would have learned that somewere in your coloege education!!!
Posted by: angry person at March 18, 2005 03:09 PMhey angry person:
if you read a little closer, you'd see the post you most object to is someone who is a part of "the culture" s/he is critiquing.
and the assumption that all the posters you disagree with are white, college educated, middle-class homeowners is wrong. i know two of the three people posting, and i can say that you are wrong on two of three.
that said, i understand being angry at having to struggle. i'm pretty angry about that, too. but that said, i don't own a gun and would never intentionally kill someone because of that anger. it is not only morally wrong, it is taking my anger out on the wrong people (other people struggling) instead of the right people (people who have too much- they took it out of the mouths of the poor.)
and lastly, being white, middle-class, or a homeowner does not mean that your critiques on random acts of violence are illegitimate, unwarranted, or invalid.
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