Police: Separate shootings leave two injured in Oakland

OAKLAND Two separate shootings on Friday night and Saturday morning left two men seriously injured in East Oakland police commented According to police an unknown shooter allegedly got out of a parked carriage and shot a -year-old man who was reportedly walking at about p m Friday along the block of Havenscourt Boulevard The victim suffered multiple gunshot wounds police commented and was reportedly taken to an area hospital Police released the man was in stable condition by Saturday afternoon The shooter reportedly fled on foot before police arrived according to leadership In another violent encounter this weekend police commented a large group of people reportedly gathered at about a m Saturday in a cul-de-sac in the block of Lakeshore Avenue before an argument ended with someone shooting another man in the head Before police arrived bystanders took the victim to a hospital where he was shared to be in serious condition according to police Personnel initially revealed the victim to be a man in his s though by Saturday were still trying to confirm his identity The suspect reportedly fled before police arrived The area surrounding Saturday s shooting near Lake Merritt has been marred by other violent encounters in fresh years including several fatal shootings and a stabbing In August bullets struck a -year-old woman and -year-old man in the block of Lakeshore Avenue In a shooter reportedly struck a -year-old boy at least twice in the block Lakeshore Avenue An unknown suspect also fatally stabbed a man in the block of Lakeshore Avenue in May On Christmas Eve police arrested Emmanuel Gardner-Craft for his alleged connection to a fatal shooting that left Ricky Bustos dead Gardner-Craft in later pleaded no contest to a lesser charge after prosecutors flipped the development and mentioned he acted in self-defense after Bustos first attempted to shoot him Also in police arrested two men Lashawn Price of Stockton and Torrin Dupclay of Crockett on suspicion of fatally shooting Oakland resident Devani Aleman Sanchez in the block of Lakeshore Avenue during an attempted robbery Prosecutors later dropped murder charges against both Price and Dupclay in December after they struck a deal and pleaded no contest to two counts of robbery in two unrelated armed holdups in Oakland that occurred three weeks after Sanchez was shot Court records show that Sanchez s friend Rosalino Salinas could have fired the bullet that killed Sanchez after attempting to defend himself from Price who reportedly fired off a stray bullet in an attempt to rob the two casualties Dupclay was given a seven-year four-month prison term while Price was sentenced to years and four months