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ACLU attorney and criminal justice advocate caught in gun crossfire in Oakland
An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and criminal justice advocate said she and her family were caught in crossfire when bullets penetrated the walls of her home in Oakland, California.
Allyssa Victory said she and her family were not injured in the incident that unfolded Friday night.
“This is kind of regular for my neighborhood, to constantly hear sirens and hear a lot of commotion and chaos happening,” Victory told KTVU. “It doesn’t feel good for it to hit so close to home. I’m thankful that my family is safe.”
Victory and her family, including her husband and father-in-law, were cleaning in the kitchen at about 10:30 p.m. Friday night and her teenage godson was sleeping in a bedroom when she heard what sounded like 10 gunshots on her block of 21st Avenue in the San Antonio neighborhood.
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An American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and criminal justice advocate said she and her family were caught in gun crossfire. (Getty Images)
A bullet came into her dining room area and another bullet came through her kitchen wall, exiting into a different room.
“It spread debris all over the dishes we had just washed,” she said. “We were a bit rattled.”
Victory quickly checked on her family members to make sure they were alright, inspected her home and walked outside where she observed a large police presence, within about a minute of the shooting.
Oakland police said at least one person fired a gun in the 2100 block of Commerce Way and that one person went to a hospital and said they had been shot. No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting.
As no stranger to crime, Victory’s neighborhood is often the sight of sexual violence and shootings, and she says she cannot afford to move away even if she wanted to.
After being homeless at times during her childhood, she now advocates for underserved communities through working on food and clothing drives at her church, as well as being a social justice organizer with Oakland’s Youth Together.
Victory is a staff attorney for the Criminal Justice Program at the ACLU of Northern California, where she works on police reform and law enforcement accountability and oversight. She also ran an unsuccessful campaign for mayor of Oakland in 2022, losing to Mayor Sheng Thao.
Earlier on Friday, Victory’s best friend was caught in the crossfire in a different location in East Oakland.
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A bullet came into Allyssa Victory’s dining room area and another bullet came through her kitchen wall, exiting into a different room. (Getty Images)
Victory said she had never experienced bullets penetrating through her home as she was inside.
“It’s unusual for it to hit this close to home, literally,” Victory said. “But sadly, this is regular. It seems normalized in some ways.”
“I mean, I’ve been witnessing crime my whole life, growing up in Oakland,” she added.
Witnessing this type of crime, Victory explained, is part of the reason she decided to pursue a career in criminal justice.
“I wanted to help be an intervention, to understand criminal justice and its policies, how to make a real difference in everyday people’s lives,” she said. “It makes me want to double down on my efforts to do more direct work and engage with our youth, with families, by providing people with services for healing or for trauma.”
In Oakland, violent crimes jumped 21% in 2023 compared to the year before, while vehicle thefts increased 45%, robberies rose 38% and burglaries were up 23%. Homicides, meanwhile, remained steady at about 120 apiece in 2022 and 2023.
“There’s a lot of truth behind the ‘crime is happening,’ I would never deny that. It just happened last night in front of my house,” Victory said.
She also said she wants to avoid perpetuating fearmongering and not become so fearful of crime that she stays inside to escape it. She explained that she believes the solution to crime is not to simply put people behind bars.
Oakland police said at least one person fired a gun in the 2100 block of Commerce Way and that one person went to a hospital and said they had been shot. (Getty Images)
“There needs to be a larger narrative that ‘this is not new,’” Victory said. “This didn’t just start last year or two years ago. This neighborhood in particular has been known for high rates of violence and of crime, and there hasn’t been a lot of change in that over decades.”
“So, some of the current things we’ve been doing over those decades are not working, and we’re not having a real conversation about that and just pushing out the narrative that people are criminals or people should move,” she added.
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Victory said there is always a large police presence in her neighborhood, so she thinks adding more cops would not have prevented the gunfire. She also claimed that Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price is charging cases that come to her with the proper evidence and policing protocols adhered to.
She said working in the criminal justice system does not exempt her from the impacts of crime and violence, but that she still has not lost her progressive worldview.
“There’s still usually more to people than just the crime or the violence that they are committing,” Victory said. “And if we can intervene earlier with public services, ensure there’s housing and show we have strong education systems, those are things that can help prevent crime from happening in the first place.”
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Presidio Heights is proving to be a center of gravity as luxury housing supply in San Francisco vanishes and the city’s well-to-do scramble to claim their slice of the artificial intelligence industry’s nerve center.
On the same day last week, the city recorded two home sales in the wealthy neighborhood for $9.2 million and $10 million.
The first reflected the fortunes being created by the AI industry. Venture capitalist Kenneth Wallace and his wife, Moriah Lewis, sold their five-bed, 4,755-square-foot home at 3875 Clay Street for $9.2 million. Josh McAdam of Sotheby’s International Realty represented the seller. The property last sold for $6.8 million in 2021.
The buyer initially kept their name hidden behind a Delaware-incorporated LLC named after the property’s address. However, according to public loan documents, the LLC is managed by Daniel Berrios and Kimberly Tan, a couple in their early 30s who graduated from Stanford into the San Francisco tech sector. Berrios works on special projects at OpenAI, and Tan is an investing partner with blue chip venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Wells Fargo Bank provided a $5.4 million loan for the purchase.
Ten blocks east, sellers Herbert and Shwu-Ling Wei sold their six-bed, 5,000 square-foot home at 2881 Jackson Street for $10 million. Kyle Vineyard, a CPA with Realize Tax Advisors, is the trustee of the buyer, RKLA Trust. It is unclear whether Vineyard’s involvement is purely professional or if he’s connected to the trust.
The home last sold in 2014 for $6.8 million.
Presidio Heights, the neighborhood that runs along Presidio Park at San Francisco’s north end, has experienced a hot streak during the first half of 2026. Earlier this month, two mansions in the area sold for a combined $32 million, marking the fourth and fifth sales this year to eclipse $10 million. There were seven sales above that benchmark in Presidio Heights in all of 2025, according to Zillow data.
San Francisco, where the median home sale fetches $2.2 million, is dealing with its own version of champagne problems: a mansion shortage. The AI boom has attracted a wave of high-paid employees, apparently leaving the city with more millionaires than mansions. Steep capital gains taxes have made some mansion owners hesitant to let go of their property. Others are holding out for the expected spike in luxury home demand following Anthropic and OpenAI’s initial public offerings of stock, which are expected to come later this year.
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Denver Transplant Games sets Guinness World Record for most living donors, recipients in one place at one time
DENVER — The biennial Transplant Games wrapped up in Denver this week, bringing hundreds of organ donors and recipients together to compete in everything from cycling and swimming to darts and trivia at venues all over the city.
In fact, the games set a Guinness World Record for most living donors and recipients in one place at one time, with 966 gathering at the Colorado Convention Center.
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Angela Laino, who used to live in Boulder, came back to Colorado to compete in the games. She donated a kidney to a stranger in January before running in the 5K event.
“I’m what they call a non-directed living kidney donor, which means that I don’t know who my recipient was,” she explained. “So I just said, ‘Whoever needs my kidney, I’m sure they’ll find the best match for it.’”
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Laino said she was inspired by her job, working “on and off” as a dialysis social worker for 17 years.
“I really saw the challenges that my patients faced,” she said. “I saw what they had to go through to get on the [transplant] wait list… I know what transplant means for people. I’ve seen it firsthand. And to be able to see them come out here, compete, they’re doing basketball, they’re doing badminton, they’re swimming, they’re cycling, they’re running. They are living their full lives, and that’s really what transplant can do for people.”
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Laino said the games unite the community and show off its resilience.
“When you go through the transplant process, sometimes you feel alone, you feel like you’re the only one going through this,” Laino said. “And then you come to an event like this and you literally see thousands of people. You see recipients, living donors, donor families coming together for the same cause. It’s really inspiring, because it really helps to get the word out, spread awareness about the organ shortage, and it shows people what recipients and donors can do after they have the surgery.”
Dr. Michael O’Shea — a nephrologist, a doctor who cares for kidney disease patients and the kidneys in general — agrees. But he said more needs to be down to support patients and spread the word about the need for organ donations.
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The National Kidney Foundation estimates 37 million Americans have Chronic Kidney Disease, which occurs when kidneys cannot filter the blood properly, leading to serious health issues. Because symptoms can be minimal in early stages of the disease, many patients don’t realize they have it.
“I think education about kidney transplant, both on the patient side as well as on the potential donor side, could be markedly ramped up and improved,” Dr. O’Shea said. “It’s struggles with communication between transplant centers, patients, and community nephrologists. No one’s fault. It’s just a very complicated delivery system.”
In the case of kidneys, people can become diseased donors — who register to donate in the case of their sudden death — or living donors, who donate one kidney will relying on the other. Dr. O’Shea said both are critical to meet nationwide demand for life-saving transplants, though the living donations tend to have a longer lifespan — around roughly 20 years — for recipients.
“A number of folks get transplanted every year off this list,” O’Shea explained. “It is also true that a greater number of folks get added to the list every year.”
To register to become a deceased donor, Coloradans can visit their local Department of Motor Vehicles office or visit registerme.org.
O’Shea said those considering living donations face an “exceedingly small” medical risk for end-stage kidney disease, but should consult with their doctor about the decision.
Even as the games leave Denver, a reminder will stick around through the summer. Denver Parks and Recreation, the Downtown Denver Partnership and DaVita have partnered to set up a basketball court in Skyline Park near Arapahoe and 17th Streets, in order to keep the spirit of the games alive and honor the resilience of organ donors, recipients and their families.
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SEATTLE — Seattle police are investigating a shooting that left a 17-year-old boy injured early Thursday morning in the High Point neighborhood.
At about 12:48 a.m., dispatchers received multiple reports of rapid gunfire near Sylvan Way Southwest and Southwest Morgan Street.
Officers arrived and found a 17-year-old boy suffering from a gunshot wound to the hip area. Medics transported the teen to Harborview Medical Center in serious but stable condition.
Before officers located the victim, they found a car that had crashed and become disabled near Sylvan Way Southwest and Delridge Way Southwest. Police said multiple suspects were seen running from the vehicle through a nearby Home Depot parking lot.
Officers cordoned off the area and searched for the suspects with assistance from the K-9 Unit, but were unable to locate them. Police recovered the vehicle and impounded it for processing.
During the incident, gunfire struck at least three vehicles and two buildings. No other injuries were reported.
Officers processed multiple nearby scenes and recovered evidence before clearing the area. Detectives with the Gun Violence Reduction Unit will lead the investigation.
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