Berkeley police are reporting that a man was murdered at 1634 Blake St. between McGee Avenue and California Street around 1 p.m. today.
Police received a report of a loud noise and responded to find a “deceased male in the back yard of a home,” according to Lt. Andrew Greenwood of the Berkeley Police Department. The victim had been shot to death.
Police are not identifying the man at this time and there is no information about a possible suspect, said Greenwood.
It is the first homicide in Berkeley in 2011.
Update, 5:10 p.m.: The homicide took place at 1634 Blake St. At around 4:45 p.m., the house and its neighboring homes were cordoned off by police crime tape and there were several police cars on the scene as well as an Alameda County coroner’s van. A Blake Street neighbor who asked not to be named, said the body of the deceased had not been removed from the property. She described the occupants of the house as a family.
