The Oakley Police Department is investigating a Friday night shooting that left a female with two gunshot wounds in the City of Oakley.
At 9:20 pm, Oakley Police responded to Country Lane for a report of a 19-year-old female who was wounded twice after the house she lives at was shot up by approximently 6-8 shots fired. She was wounded in the shoulder and back.
According to preliminary information, police believe an argument occurred between two groups of people when a suspect fired his gun into the house striking the female victim. The suspect vehicle fled the scene.
Update:
By around 10:50 pm, Oakley Police made a high risk stop where two males exited the vehicle. Police made contact with both the driver and passenger. The passenger was ultimately take into custody as a suspect in the shooting.
No other information was released.
Saturday Update by Oakley Police
On Friday, April 14, 2023 at 9:22PM, Oakley police officers were dispatched to the 600 block of Country Lane for what was initially reported as an unknown problem with people screaming. As our officers were on their way they were notified there had been a drive by shooting and somebody had been shot. Our officers arrived and found several people crying and experiencing shock. Our officers also found a female who had suffered a gunshot wound on her upper body, she was determined to be the only gunshot wound victim we had. Assistance in the form of Contra Costa County Deputy Sheriff’s and Air Support arrived to assist us.
The victim was transported to a local hospital and she was released after receiving treatment. Officers found shell casings on the ground in front of the residence and 11 bullet holes going into the house. One bullet went through front window of the house and continued through the house and through a back window until it struck the house behind the victims house.
Our investigation has revealed one of the juvenile occupants of the house had been in an argument with two other people (a young adult male and a juvenile male) just before the shooting and these two other people were associated with a gold colored Nissan Rogue. Our officers went to the home of the young adult male in an attempt to contact him. Our officers found him to not be home, but his mother was able to work with the father of him and his father drove him to the location. Due to the nature of the situation our officers conducted a high risk stop of the fathers vehicle when it arrived. The young adult male of interest was detained without incident. It was quickly determined the fathers vehicle was not the vehicle associated with the shooting. The male, who had been detained, was transported to the Oakley Police Station for questioning and forensic processing.
After obtaining a statement from the detained male and after looking at all of the available evidence and after weighing all of the information available to us we made a decision to release him pending further investigation. Our investigation into the involvement of this male is not over and it will continue. We have collected evidence that will require specialized examination, the results of that examination will assist us in what direction to either take or in what direction to continue on in our investigation. The juvenile male who was thought to be associated with the male we detained has not yet been contacted and his full identity has not been made known to us.
The neighborhood of the shooting was canvassed for video surveillance with negative results. Officers will be conducting follow-up in the neighborhood today as well. If anybody has any information on this investigation, or any possible video surveillance please call the Oakley Police Department at 925-625-8060.
“This was a very dangerous situation for all of the residents in the area of Country Lane. At this point my officers and investigators do not have enough probable cause to make an arrest, but we do have evidence to process which may help us develop that probable cause. If anybody has any eyewitness accounts of what happened, or any sightings of a gold Nissan Rouge in the area of Country Lane in the minutes leading up to the shooting please call us. My Department truly desires to take people who have committed criminal acts into custody and have them held accountable. Sometimes we have to release people from our custody and work the investigation from different angles before that accountability can take place.”
— Chief Paul Beard
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I personally appreciate the transparency Mr. Beard brings forth in his commentary of local incidence and crime in the City of Oakley. The de-escalation efforts they prioritize are keeping them from subsequent acts of crime & additional unnecessary issues not so much observed by the greater amount of departments out there. The mentality and enhanced deficits some citizens experience in life are all unique to the biggest spectrum out there; so any attempt to recognize each is indeed required and it seems that effort is being given proper attention to address heightened situations in order to gain mutual understanding for what is expected on a level also understood as much as possible to the sometimes suffering silently suspects. You’d be surprised what you can learn by treating an edged stranger in a way no one does- and normal without judgement. I’ve had some of the most fascinating experiences with some patients whom had been labeled various ways due to their behaviors. And others who wouldn’t speak to anyone. And I’ll never forget the one who had a day long conversation with me laughing smiling sharing stories… Only to learn the staff assumed he was clinically mute. Hed been there for 3 years… When I returned couple days later, I asked him about that… His response was pivotal to my interest in challenged mind souls. Because, he said he comes from old school where you speak how your spoken too, and those whom don’t treat you as an equal regardless of your challenges, are likely not interested in your abilities, so don’t offer them. He continued to tell me that sometimes in his past, he learned if he was considered an unstable minded person, he must def live up to the given title he was unaware of having. Followed by how lucrative and methodical the minds actually are of the majority of them out there- and how on more cases than not, the only thing “wrong” with the psych ward was the very planned and entirely intentional behaviors created spontaneously for each staff member/nurse based on how they were treated. In other words, it’s a big game he stated, and it’s fun to return the fair treatment. It was one of the most compelling things I’ve ever been told on something I learned nothing about in school…so I tend to favor the most challenging kind personally. And the challenging aspect is all mine in how quick can that normal become just that? This effort that’s sweeping the nation on how to address criminal incidence is so overdue- sorry to yap, lol but it will make a bigger diff in the future for many when offered up correctly. Bravo to Oakley for again seeing the obvious several times now and responding with every intention of less is more. Now if law can only be written to allow insanity pleas by ones who’ve been previously documented by evaluation, and not a sudden onset for convenience of sentencing we’d be on to a really great improvement!
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