BART, East Bay parks police investigating separate homicides in Oakland
OAKLAND — BART police and East Bay Regional Park District police were investigating separate homicides that occurred around the same time Tuesday afternoon in downtown and East Oakland, authorities said.The park district homicide happened about 2:25 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline on Doolittle Drive, near the Oakland International Airport, authorities said.
Five minutes later, at 2:30 p.m., a victim was shot dead at a street level entrance to the Lake Merritt BART Station near a bus zone, a BART spokesperson said.
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