![]() The mural, “Silence the Violence,” was partially inspired by the Oakland Tribune’s annual homicide victim list. The damage to this neighborhood - both physical and emotional - isn’t new.Ī decade ago, a sweeping mural featuring the names of the scores of people killed by gun violence across the city in 2013 was painted outside of Aswad Hayes’ now-shuttered T-shirt screenprinting company just off MacArthur and 60th Avenue - catty-corner to Monday’s shooting. “We closed early, and that’s why we were safe.” “I have been here for 21 years, and there’s always a shooting,” Daniel said Tuesday, in between scooping ice cream for customers. ![]() He didn’t realize his gut reaction was right until he got home when his sister called to see if he was OK. Monday, he decided he didn’t want to take any risks. It was just instinct, said one of the shop’s employees, Daniel, who did not want to provide his last name.Ĭonflicts aren’t uncommon when lots of people show up on the corner, so as soon as a crowd started growing shortly before 6 p.m. Loard’s Ice Cream and Candy, which shares a parking lot with the Valero gas station, closed up shop two hours earlier than usual on Monday. Party shooting in Southern California leaves 2 dead, 5 more hurt No arrests were made in the days following Monday’s gunfight. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)Īcting Police Chief Darren Allison said the department had a “good sense on the involved parties, as far as groups and gangs,” but would not publicly identify any suspects. Oakland police investigate a multiple shooting and homicide at the Valero gas station on Seminary Avenue at MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, Jan. In total, the victims included one woman and four men, ranging in age from 19 to 56, authorities said. Four others sustained injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening. Police believe more than one shooter opened fire in the 5900 block of MacArthur Boulevard, killing an 18-year-old Oakland resident. “Once you leave Oakland, you can’t come back,” he said. It’s not feasible to find another place with enough space in Oakland without touching their retirement savings, he said, especially given the Bay Area’s ever-increasing cost of living. Still, as crime has increased and any sense of community in the neighborhood has faded, Vallan said walking away from where he made his name after growing up in this city is not an easy decision. Headlines about shootings have become commonplace in a city long gripped by violence, despite efforts from the community and the police department’s Ceasefire program to prevent normalizing it. The new location was a quick walk from his home in Oakland’s Millsmont neighborhood, a mostly residential community tucked away in the city’s foothills next door to Mills College. In 2012, Vallan jumped on an opportunity to reopen his business on MacArthur - the same place he started tinkering with his craft for free in the 1980s - after spending decades tailoring his skills in architecture remodeling, 3D animation and even painting in his first rental space only a mile west. A mural listing names of victims of gun violence along 60th Avenue near MacArthur Boulevard on Thursday, Jan. The bullet that pierced the metal gate and front door of Jerald Vallan Sr.’s graphic design business - directly across the street from the gas station - might be his last. 23 at the intersection of MacArthur and Seminary Avenue. ![]() The Oakland Police Department blamed the latest on a gang-related mass shooting that killed one and injured four Jan. Then there are those created by the dozens of rifle and low-caliber bullets fired last week during a music video production that had drawn as many as 50 people to a Valero gas station. Other tiny craters are from a drive-by shooting on New Year’s Day. Some of the holes left behind are older, silent reminders of past violence. OAKLAND - Bullets have pierced nearly every business on this block of MacArthur Boulevard.
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