Update: 4-Year-Old Shot in East Oakland

Update:

Police are investigating whether a young child found shot in East Oakland this afternoon may have been wounded at the scene of a nearby shooting, according to police Sgt. Holly Joshi.

Around 4 p.m. the Oakland Police Department responded to 81st Avenue and Rudsdale Street on reports of a shooting. On arrival officers found shell casings throughout the intersection and a car riddled with bullets parked on the curb.

Shortly after that at 4:11 p.m. an Alameda County Sheriff’s deputy found a 4-year-old girl with a gunshot wound in the vicinity of 77th Avenue and Macarthur Boulevard, Joshi said, but there was no other evidence of a crime scene at that location.

The sheriff’s deputy transported the victim to a hospital where she’s being treated for wounds that are not thought to be life threatening, according to Joshi.

Police detained several suspects at the scene of the shooting at 81st Avenue and Rudsdale Street. Further details were not immediately available.

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Earlier:

Police are investigating the shooting of a child in East Oakland this afternoon.

The fire department responded to reports of the shooting at 4:11 p.m. at 77th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard.

According to police radio traffic, the shooting victim is a 4-year-old girl who was rushed to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.

Further information about the victim’s condition was not immediately available.

--Bay City News