OAKLAND (KRON) — A teenage girl was killed and three others were injured in a shooting in downtown Oakland on Tuesday while attending a vigil for two teenage boys who drowned in Stanislaus County on Memorial Day weekend.
Shots were fired at around at 5:41 p.m. in the area of 13th and Franklin streets near the vigil, according to police.
Reggina Jefferies and three other victims were hit by the gunfire and taken to a nearby hospital, where Jefferies was pronounced dead.
The three other victims were treated and released from the hospital.
The victims of the shooting are males and females, ages ranging from mid-teens to early 20s.
Police say it appears that several suspects fired towards a group of people attending the vigil.
The vigil was for two 15-year-old Oakland boys who drowned at Woodward Reservoir north of Oakdale on May 28.
Donnie Briggs, who identified himself as Pratt-Rose’s cousin, wrote in a Facebook post that he and others were at the vigil downtown after a memorial service and the gunfire erupted during an argument over a dice game nearby.
“Some IDIOTS started fighting over a dice game, someone pulled out a gun, shots were fired,” Briggs wrote.
Briggs said Jefferies had served as a praise dancer during the memorial service earlier Tuesday.
No suspect information has been released by police in connection with the shooting.
This investigation is on-going and anybody with information is asked to call the Oakland Police Department Homicide Section at (510) 238-3821 or the TIP LINE at (510) 238-7950.