At a press conference today, the Oakland Police Department provided fresh details on a Nov. 12 shooting at Skyline High School. The incident sent the school into lockdown for the third time this school year. OPD Assistant Chief James Beere said that the 15-year-old shooting victim is recovering and "in good spirits." He said officers got to the campus within two minutes and were able to provide life-saving medical assistance to him until paramedics arrived.
OAKLAND, Calif. -- A suspect has been arrested in the shooting of college football coach John Beam, who was featured in the Netflix show "Last Chance U" and remains in critical condition after being shot on the school's campus, the Oakland Police Department and other authorities said Friday. Few other details were available. It was the second time in two days there was a shooting at a school in Oakland. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee described Beam as a "giant" and a mentor, educator and lifeline for young people. "For over 40 years, he has shaped leaders on and off the field, and our community is shaken alongside his family," Lee said.
Holly's TikTok accounts contained white supremacist symbols, the Anti-Defamation League said, and the name of his most recent account included a reference to a popular white supremacist slogan. The account was unavailable on Friday. TikTok said accounts associated with Holly had been banned. Holly's family could not be reached. The Associated Press left a message at a telephone number associated with the house that police searched after the shooting.
In a news release issued Friday, police said the teen is facing charges including attempted murder and discharging a firearm in a reckless manner linked to the shooting outside York Memorial Collegiate Institute on Wednesday. The incident happened at 11:54 a.m. that day, in the Keele Street and Donald Avenue area. Investigators say that two groups of people exchanged gunfire across Keele Street in front of the school. Investigators have previously said they believe the incident was targeted.
As a psychologist who lives just miles from the Annunciation Catholic School/Church in Minneapolis where a horrific shooting occurred this week, I offer this blog in support of parents everywhere. Our Minnesota summer began with the murders of former Minnesota House of Representative Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and the shooting of State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. And now, the first day back to school for these Annunciation School children begins with violence...an event having ripple effects across communities throughout the country.
In the vaulted church of a Catholic school in Minneapolis, the pews were packed with teachers, parents and schoolchildren listening to a psalm on the third day of the new school year. "For you darkness itself is not dark, and night shines as the day," a church member read to some 200 students Wednesday morning as sun streamed through stained glass windows. Just before the congregants were to proclaim "Alleluia," bullets blasted through the windows.
A young man carrying white flowers approached a police line a block away from the church and school on Wednesday where hours earlier an assailant opened fire on schoolchildren, blasting bullets through stained glass windows and killing two kids. Arthur Louie grew up a few blocks away from Annunciation church in south Minneapolis, Minnesota. The church throws a fair before school starts, he said, describing it as a staple point in this community.
Authorities identified the shooter as 23-year-old Robin Westman, the child of a former parish employee. FBI Director Kash Patel said the agency is investigating the assault "as an act of domestic terrorism and hate crime targeting Catholics." According to court documents reviewed by local NBC affiliate KARE, Westman applied to change her name when she was 17. That request was granted in January 2020, the station reports.
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee has unveiled a new five-point plan to address the issue of homelessness in the city. It include the creation of a new office in City Hall, comparable to what San Francisco has, called the Office of Homelessness Solutions. [KPIX] There was a horrific shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. At least two children were killed, 17 were injured including adults, and the shooter, a man in his early 20s, is also dead. [CNN]
