Two wounded in separate Oakland shootings
By Harry Harris
Oakland Tribunecontracostatimes.com
Posted: 08/16/2012 08:01:45 AM PDT
August 16, 2012 3:3 PM GMTUpdated: 08/16/2012 08:01:46 AM PDT
OAKLAND -- Two people were shot within three hours Wednesday night in different parts of the city, including one man wounded in the leg after he refused to give robbers his property, police said.
The robbery-shooting happened about 9:04 p.m. Wednesday in the 2400 block of Filbert Street in West Oakland.
Police said five suspects confronted a man and demanded his bag. When he refused one of the robbers shot him in the leg, causing him to fall to the pavement.
While he was lying defenseless on the pavement, another robber grabbed the bag and all the suspects fled in a car, police said.
The wounded man was in stable condition at a hospital.
Earlier Wednesday at 6 p.m., two men were shot at by another man in the 300 block of Seminary Avenue in East Oakland.
One of the intended targets was hit in both legs and was taken to a hospital in stable condition, police said. The other man was not hurt.
The gunman fled before police arrived. Police don't have a motive yet for the shooting.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $5,000 in reward money in each incident
By Harry Harris
Oakland Tribunecontracostatimes.com
Posted: 08/16/2012 08:01:45 AM PDT
August 16, 2012 3:3 PM GMTUpdated: 08/16/2012 08:01:46 AM PDT
OAKLAND -- Two people were shot within three hours Wednesday night in different parts of the city, including one man wounded in the leg after he refused to give robbers his property, police said.
The robbery-shooting happened about 9:04 p.m. Wednesday in the 2400 block of Filbert Street in West Oakland.
Police said five suspects confronted a man and demanded his bag. When he refused one of the robbers shot him in the leg, causing him to fall to the pavement.
While he was lying defenseless on the pavement, another robber grabbed the bag and all the suspects fled in a car, police said.
The wounded man was in stable condition at a hospital.
Earlier Wednesday at 6 p.m., two men were shot at by another man in the 300 block of Seminary Avenue in East Oakland.
One of the intended targets was hit in both legs and was taken to a hospital in stable condition, police said. The other man was not hurt.
The gunman fled before police arrived. Police don't have a motive yet for the shooting.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $5,000 in reward money in each incident