A rolling gun battle in Oakland caused a crash involving an innocent bystanders' vehicle Thursday morning near a high school.
A rolling gun battle in Oakland caused a crash involving an innocent bystanders' vehicle Thursday morning near a high school. Oakland police said a shooting activated a ShotSpotter alert just after 7:30 a.m. on the 2500 block of Cherokee Avenue near Bishop O'Dowd High School and the campus of Barack Obama Academy / Francophone Charter School in the city's Toler Heights neighborhood.Officers arrived to find a vehicle collision and evidence of a shooting.
'Witnesses told him the people in the other car involved in the crash fled in a second car. 'It's sad. I mean, I'm born and raised here. Uh, it just sucks to see Oakland going where it is. People have no regard for other people,' said McCoy. 'I mean, they literally jumped out of a car and jumped into another one and sped off and my daughter and my wife were stuck in the vehicle, you know, they couldn't get out.
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