A person was fatally stabbed on New 12 months’s Eve after an altercation in East Oakland at 7:46 p.m. within the 1900 block of seventieth Avenue, authorities mentioned.
Preliminary stories say the person was stabbed after stepping into an altercation with a person who fled earlier than police arrived on the scene, in line with police. The sufferer was taken to a hospital the place he died round 8:16 p.m. on Tuesday.
The identification of the person, believed to be in his 40s, has not been launched.
The murder is the eighty fifth investigated by Oakland Police this 12 months and the third previously 24 hours. The opposite killings embrace a person who was fatally shot in East Oakland at 9 p.m. Monday night time. One other man was shot round 7 a.m. on Tuesday in West Oakland.
In 2023, police investigated 126 homicides within the metropolis. The previous 12 months marks a five-year low in homicides for Oakland, authorities mentioned.
