1 Dead In Shooting At High School Basketball Game In Antioch

ANTIOCH, CA — A 16-year-old Antioch boy who was shot and killed Friday night at a high school basketball game in Antioch was identified by the Contra Costa County Sheriff-Coroner's Office as Jonathan Parker. Antioch police were dispatched at 8:44 p.m. to the shooting at Deer Valley High School, where a cross-town game between Deer Valley High School and Antioch High School was just letting out.

Officers were sent to the north parking lot of the campus at 4700 Lone Tree Way, where Parker, a student at Deer Valley High, was suffering from three gunshot wounds, Antioch police Sgt. James Stenger said in a news release about the fatal shooting.

"A large group of juveniles started fighting in the parking lot when the shots were fired," Stenger said.

Parker was rushed in critical condition to a hospital, where he later died.

Grief counselors were being made available to students following the "senseless act of violence" after a "peaceful athletic event,"administrators with the Antioch Unified School District and Deer Valley High School said Sunday in a statement posted to Facebook.

"Our hearts and sympathies are with the families during this time of unimaginable pain," AUSD Superintendent Stephanie Anello and Deer Valley High School Principal Bukky Oyebade said.

"We, along with the rest of AUSD, denounce this senseless violence and call on the community to come together to address such vicious brutality. Our children must be taught that solving disagreements with violence is not the answer and that there are other ways to resolve our differences that do not result in the unjust and unnecessary killing of our youth. Finally, we ask that everyone in this community and nearby communities model the love and peace they hope to create."

The Antioch Police Department has not yet said whether investigators have identified a suspect or suspects.

Anyone with information regarding the shooting investigation is asked to call Detective Smith at 925-779-6876 or the Antioch Police Department non-emergency line at 925-778-2441. Information can also be submitted through text-a-tip by sending a message to 274637 (CRIMES) using the keyword ANTIOCH.

— Bay City News Service contributed to this report.