22-Month-Old Toddler Shot in Oakland

OAKLAND, CA — A 22-month-old girl was wounded in a shooting in East Oakland Thursday, according to police.

The shooting was reported around noon in the 6600 block of Outlook Avenue, near 66th Avenue, police said.

The girl was driven to Highland Hospital and then transferred to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital for treatment. She is in stable condition, police said.

Oakland police Assistant Chief David Downing, still the highest-ranking officer in the department, met with the child's mother and family at the hospital, according to police spokeswoman Officer Johnna Watson.

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The toddler was with her mother in a car when she was shot, Watson said.

She said police do not know if the car was moving or parked during the shooting or even if anyone else was in the car at the time.

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Watson said investigators are looking into the possibility that the shooting was somehow connected to a homicide a day ago on the other side of the city. A male victim was fatally shot in the 900 block of 16th Street
in West Oakland around 1:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Police this afternoon were canvassing the neighborhood, which is primarily residential, to see if anyone saw or heard anything or has surveillance footage that might help the case, Watson said.

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