Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press [P360].
Just this Sunday, the Oakland Police Department responded to a call at 10:16 a.m. for a shooting inside a residence in the 3300 block of Adeline Street, where officers found a man with gunshot wounds who, despite first responders' attention, died of his gunshot wounds.
Police are already investigating the incident and are in the process of notifying the victim's next of kin.
The fateful incident adds to a series of events that seem to give no respite. Given its pace and lethality, it seems that gun violence is becoming a pandemic for which there is no cure in sight.
Yesterday, Antioch police were reporting that a woman was in stable condition after a passenger accidentally shot her in her car.
The victim, who was in the driver's seat of a car parked at Antioch High School, was able to get the attention of an officer and explain that, minutes earlier, an unknown person had robbed him and shot him; however, the officer determined that the person who had pulled the gun was an acquaintance of the victim, who had accidentally detonated a handgun.
Police said the woman was shot while driving north on L Street near William Reed Drive by one of two men in the car, an 18-year-old and a 22-year-old, who got out of the vehicle and ran.
Another Antioch officer found both men at the intersection of L and W. 10th streets. One had a handgun, and a police dog found a second handgun nearby that is believed to have been fired in the shooting. Both men were arrested on suspicion of unlawful possession of firearms.
In the same area, police are searching for suspects after a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed Saturday night, April 17, at a home in Antioch.
The shooting occurred shortly after 6 p.m. at a home in the 4500 block of Shannondale Drive, a neighborhood near Antioch Water Park.
According to the local police department, when officers arrived at the scene, they were assaulted by several people who were at the scene as they attempted to reach the victim.
When the officers arrived at the garage, where the victim was found with multiple gunshot wounds, it was too late, as the young man had already died.
Officers said two suspects entered the garage and at least one of them began shooting at the victim. According to reports, the pair, whose identities are still unknown, left the scene on foot.
In San Jose the same Saturday morning, police responded to a shooting that left one person wounded.
The victim, who suffered injuries that were not considered life-threatening, was located in the area of Cottle Road and State Highway 85, according to the San Jose Police Department.
Just one day earlier, on Friday night, April 16, in the same city, San Jose police responded to two incidents involving gunfire.
The first shooting occurred at 11:14 p.m. in the 100 block of North 6th Street. At the scene, two adult males were wounded, one of them with life-threatening gunshot wounds.
The second incident was reported at 11:50 p.m. in the 3100 block of Silver Creek.
Add to that a shooting that sent two people to the hospital on Thursday, April 15, this time in Vallejo.
Vallejo Police Department officers responded that day at 5:30 p.m. to a shooting call in the area of Kentucky and Napa streets, authorities said.
At the scene, agents located two men alive with gunshot wounds, so they were taken to the hospital, where although they were in serious condition, they were reported stable.
That same day, but in San Francisco, officers from the local Police Department responded to a shooting call, which occurred around 6:40 p.m. in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood.
The authority detailed that the victim was a 36-year-old man, who was sitting in his vehicle when a bullet grazed him. The victim was taken to a hospital with injuries that are not considered life-threatening, according to police.
Police were unable to arrest the shooter, who was described as a man in his 20s who was on foot.
The phone number for the San Francisco Police Department is (415) 837-7395. The phone number for the San Jose Police Department is (408) 277-5339.
These shootings occurred on just one weekend. Today, it is "normal" for residents to open a newspaper and learn of a gun incident almost daily. The same is true in cities across the country, where the pandemic of gun violence continues unabated.
As of Monday, April 19, 12,784 deaths by firearms were recorded in the country, according to the Armed Violence Archive.
The organization detailed that of that number of victims, 5,590 were for murder or without the intention of doing so, while 7,194 were due to suicide.
According to the figures detailed on their website, the number of mass shootings has been 153, while 11 mass murders have been recorded.
In just the first four months of the year, armed violence in the country has resulted in the deaths of 91 children and left another 193 injured, aged 0 to 11 years old.
Meanwhile, in the case of those aged 12 to 17, the figures reveal that 326 died from gunshot wounds, and 788 more were wounded by a firearm.
Notably, in the face of a rising tide of gun incidents in the country, President Joseph Biden will announce his first limited actions on gun control Thursday, according to a senior administration official.
According to previous statements by the U.S. president, he will order his administration to tighten restrictions on so-called ghost weapons and stabilizer mounts that allow weapons to be used more accurately.
These actions are in line with Biden's pledges to take immediate "common sense" steps to seek to curb the rising shootings.
Add to that the nomination of a gun control advocate to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
