Berkeley police are investigating three separate shootings that took place over a span of five days, including one late Tuesday in which a child was wounded and another that appeared to be self-inflicted.
Berkeley Police Officer Jessica Perry said police received a call at about 11:15 pm Tuesday night that there had been a shooting in the 2200 block of Bonar Street.
When officers arrived they found “physical evidence of a shooting, and contacted a juvenile victim who sustained one (non-life-threatening) gunshot wound to the left thigh,” she said in an email.
The Berkeley Fire Department took the child who had been shot to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland for treatment. The shooting was still under investigation as of Wednesday.
Police also said they arrested a 49-year-old Richmond man after he sought care for an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the leg at Alta Bates hospital on Saturday. The man told police “he had shot himself with a gun while working at Solar Car Wash” at 1198 University Ave., according to a declaration of probable cause filed by city police.
Citing a decades-old felony conviction they said barred the man from possession of a firearm, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office charged him with three felonies Wednesday. They included possession of a firearm by a felon, illegally carrying a loaded firearm in public and carrying a concealed firearm in a vehicle, according to court records.
On Thursday, City police said they received reports of several gunshots near Fairview and Harper streets around 7:25 p.m. Officers found evidence of gunfire at the scene and a victim later went to a local hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, police said.
The Thursday night incident was also still under investigation Wednesday.
