One person died Tuesday after gunfire erupted outside Oakland City Hall.
The shooting occured during a City Council meeting. Council members attended the meeting online, but the City Clerk, who was at City Hall at the time of the shooting, interrupted the meeting.
“It looks like someone just got shot in the plaza,” said Asha Reed, the city clerk.
Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas then halted the meeting for 10 minutes to ensure City Hall was secure and everyone was safe.
The shooting came less than 24 hours after three homicides occurred in Oakland in the span of an hour.
Two people were shot at Frank Ogawa Plaza, just outside City Hall, at about 2:15 p.m., said City Administrator Ed Reiskin.
One person was awake and breathing and another was still breathing, but in critical condition, Reiskin said around 2:30 p.m.
Bas said about an hour later that one of the victims had died.
The shooters fled the scene and no arrests were made.
The shooting occurred as the city grapples with a rise in violence after a violent Monday night. Oakland recorded a total of 89 homicides — not including those resulting from negligence or self-defense. At this time last year, the city had 89 homicides.
“It was very shocking and this is not what should be happening every day,” Bas said during the meeting. “It’s completely unacceptable that we have these types of situations.”
At 7:45 p.m on Monday, three people were shot on the 3100 block of Telegraph Avenue, around the corner from the Islamic Center of Oakland in the Pill Hill neighborhood, according to the Police Department.
Two men, ages 59 and 27, were found with gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A third shooting victim, 19, transported himself to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police withheld the names of the victims while they notified next of kin.
Less than an hour later, at about 8:30 p.m., a woman was shot and killed in a separate, unrelated shooting on the 2200 block of E. 20th Street in the San Antonio neighborhood.
Several hours after that, a 17-year-old girl was shot on the 2600 block of International Boulevard, less than a mile away, just outside the San Antonio neighborhood. She’s in critical condition, police said.
Sarah Ravani (she/her) is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: sravani@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SarRavani
