‘He’s a hero’: Parent describes security guard among 6 shot at Oakland school campus

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — We’re studying extra concerning the moments when six individuals have been shot on an East Oakland faculty campus.

Wednesday evening, letters may very well be seen marking the bullet holes left inside a college constructing after gunfire erupted on the King Estates Advanced in East Oakland.

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Dad and mom inform us these bullet holes are situated in an space the place college students enter the campus, one left plagued by yellow proof markers, some labeling spots the place shell casings have been discovered.

One of many victims is Jason Arbuckle, a carpenter with the Oakland Unified College District. He tells us a bullet grazed his head and left some fragments behind. He and others have been hanging a trophy show case when the capturing broke out.

Dad and mom described what they have been informed by these inside.

“This scholar was saying he was going to die and he was telling him he was not going to die!”

Mario Juarez, whose son goes to BayTech, which is a constitution faculty on campus, is describing what a safety guard there informed him earlier than going to the hospital with a gunshot wound.

“Not solely after getting shot did he not cover, however he went to supply assist to a scholar who had 4 bullet wounds to his again. Though unarmed, nonetheless courageous, and had the braveness to guard kids as we speak and supply assist to a different one who was shot and laying down,” stated Juarez.

That safety guard goes to be okay, in response to faculty officers.

The King Estates Advanced is made up of 4 colleges. Authorities have not stated the place all the photographs have been fired, or what went down. Solely saying the capturing occurred in proximity of Rudsdale Continuation Excessive College, an space roped off with yellow crime scene tape Wednesday night.

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“We all know that we encountered victims inside the college,” stated Darren Allison who’s Oakland’s Assistant Police Chief.

In complete, six people who find themselves all 18 or older have been shot. Juarez says at the least two are college students however police have but to verify that.

Dad and mom we spoke with, upset over the violence, and hopeful that an arrest is made.

“It saddens me what he informed me, he stated ‘Dad I assumed they have been firecrackers’! It shouldn’t be bullets flying by way of the halls of a college hitting individuals,” stated Juarez.

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