Oakland Homicide Victims Identified

Oakland police have released the names of two homicide victims who were shot and killed Tuesday evening and early Wednesday morning.

A man who was shot and killed in the 1200 block of 46th Avenue at 12:58 a.m. Wednesday was identified as 51-year-old Tass Jackson.

A suspect fled in a vehicle after the shooting and has not been located, according to police.

The previous evening at about 6:15 p.m., 21-year-old Jamell Tousant was shot and killed in the 1400 block of 90th Avenue, according to police.

Tousant was found there with multiple gunshot wounds and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Undercover police officers were fired on while investigating Tousant’s death early the following morning in an apparently unrelated incident. That shooting occurred when they noticed a vehicle burglary happening in the area of Harrington and Lyon avenues at about 1:30 a.m.

Those suspects fled in a vehicle but crashed a few blocks away.

Two men were arrested at the crash scene and a third man was also arrested after a search of the area, police said.

Police have not indicated any suspected connection between those suspects and Tousant’s homicide.

--Bay City News

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