Surging Gun Violence Leaves Oakland Neighborhood Living On The Edge; ‘We're Scared…We're Very Angry'

By Da Lin, CBS San Francisco:

OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Residents of Oakland’s Eastmont Hills neighborhood are fed up with weekly gun violence, and are even more upsetting by the lack of official response to stop it.

Neighbors pointed to a specific troubled intersection, Ritchie Street and Ney Avenue. They said there have been shootings there at least once a week in the last month, the latest was on Wednesday Morning that left bullet holes in many houses and cars. A home surveillance video showed the shootout resulted in 20 to 30 shoots.

“A bullet went inside of my bathroom. If I was in my bathroom, I would’ve been shot,” said neighbor Meelah Ilieva.

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