A woman bicyclist was shot Tuesday night in the 1500 block of Derby near Longfellow Middle School. This story was updated at 10:42 a.m. See the updated post here. The original story appears below. A woman was shot and killed Tuesday night while riding her bike in the 1500 block of Derby Street, according to Berkeley […]
Sacramento Street shootings
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Shooting on Sacramento and Oregon, victim wounded
The crime scene at Sacramento and Oregon where a shooting occurred at around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday night. Photo: A citizen reporter A shooting tonight in Berkeley at Sacramento and Oregon streets near Bob’s Liquor store at around 7:30pm resulted in one known male victim being transported to Highland Hospital’s trauma unit. The condition of the […]
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2 arrested after shootings on Sacramento Street
Berkeley police investigate a Sacramento Street shooting on Dec. 23, 2011. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Update, 01.25.12: New information received from Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick from the Alameda County District Attorney’s office clarifies that Tyler Frank Jamison is in fact 16 but that he was filed on as an adult. Two 18-year-old Berkeley men have been arrested in connection with the […]
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Police searching for motive for double shooting
Berkeley police still do not have a motive for Friday’s double shooting in broad daylight on Sacramento Street. Two men – one 17, one 18 — were shot at 12:41 p.m. as they were walking on Sacramento near Woolsey. Their assailants — and there was more than one, although police declined to detail the exact […]
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Two shot on Sacramento Street
Berkeley police confer during their investigation of two shootings on Sacramento St. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel Berkeley police are looking for the suspect or suspects who shot two people walking on Sacramento Street around 12:41 pm. 911 started getting numerous calls that shots had been fired at the intersection of Sacramento and Woolsey streets but when […]
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Memorial set up for Berkeley slaying victim
Sacramento St. memorial to Gary Ferguson Jr. The day after Berkeley resident Gary Ferguson Jr. was gunned down on a busy section of Sacramento Street, friends and family set up a makeshift shrine in his memory. Ferguson, 35, was killed around 8:43 am Tuesday Oct. 26 as he walked near Johnson’s House of Style on […]
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Another murder in Berkeley
Police examine bloody clothing left on ground after shooting One man was killed and another was seriously injured Tuesday in a mid-morning shooting on Sacramento Street near Russell. Two men were walking on the street near a neighborhood hang out called Johnson’s Barbershop around 8:43 a.m. when they were shot by two assailants, according to […]
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Update on Sacramento shooting
The scene of shots fired on Sacramento Street in Berkeley. Photo: Thomas Lord. Berkeley police have released further details about this afternoon’s shooting on Sacramento Street. Here are the details from Sergeant Mary Kusmiss: On 08-31-10 at approximately 1:46 p.m., the City of Berkeley Police department began receiving many 911 calls regarding gunshots in the […]
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Shots fired on Sacramento
Berkeleyside reader Thomas Lord sends in the following: Shortly after 2 p.m. on this last day of August approximately 10 shots rang out on Sacramento St. in Berkeley. No injuries are reported although an occupied vehicle driven by a resident of the neighborhood was struck through the rear window. The south-bound portion of Sacramento St. in that area is […]
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Shooting at Sacramento and Oregon
The Berkeley Police Department reports that at 7:12 p.m. yesterday, there was an assault with a deadly weapon at Sacramento and Oregon. There were multiple rounds fired, according to Officer Jamie Perkins, and the male victim sustained non-life threatening injuries. The incident occurred near Spiral Gardens. There is an active investigation of the shooting, but […]