Two people were killed and two others were wounded in a shooting Saturday night in Oakland’s Longfellow neighborhood on the north edge of the city near Emeryville, officials said.
According to the Police Department, officers from Oakland and Emeryville responded to the 950 block of Apgar Street shortly before 10 p.m. and found two victims with catastrophic gunshot wounds.
“Officers attempted life-saving measures on two victims, but unfortunately they succumbed to their injuries at the scene,” said Officer Darryl Rodgers.
Two other victims were rushed to the hospital, he said, where they were in stable condition Sunday morning. No arrests were immediately announced.
A woman who identified herself as Liz and said she was visiting the block at the time of the shooting told The Chronicle on Sunday that she was watching a movie with her boyfriend Saturday evening when she heard laughter and music coming from the backyard of a nearby home.
More than an hour later she heard a noise that “sounded like fireworks” erupt from the home, followed by silence.
Peering out her window, Liz saw a person laying on the home’s driveway. She ran outside and asked the victim, who she described as a teenage boy, if he was okay.
“He said, ‘Help me, I’ve been shot,” Liz said.
Seeing the victim bleeding from his leg, Liz said she removed her belt and, recalling a first aid class she had taken, wrapped the belt around the victim’s injury in a makeshift tourniquet.
Liz waited with the victim until first responders arrived to render care and transport him to Highland Hospital. She said she was “still processing” the incident as of Sunday afternoon.
“I helped him just like I hope everybody else would,” she said.
According to the East Bay Times, the victims were Berkeley students attending a birthday party for a 17-year-old girl. The party, held in a rental property, had been going on for several hours when gunfire erupted, the newspaper reported.
The 950 block of Apgar Street is lined with single and two-story homes, just east of San Pablo Avenue and north of West MacArthur Boulevard.
Council Member Dan Kalb, who represents the area, called the shooting “tragic and sad.”
“I am both saddened and angry that this shooting and several others around the city have happened over the past summer and now into the fall,” Kalb said in an interview Sunday. “We need to bring these shootings down.”
The shooting was the latest in a wave of gun violence in Oakland, which has seen a rise in homicides since the start of the pandemic.
As the Longfellow shooting unfolded, police were still trying to find the gunmen who shot and wounded six people on Wednesday at Rudsdale High School in the Eastmont Hills neighborhood, in what was believed to be a targeted attack.
At least two shooters entered the King Estates campus, where Rudsdale High is located, at about 12:45 p.m., firing more than 30 shots, police said.
As of Sept. 25, the city had reported 93 homicides, compared with 92 during the same time period in 2021, and 69 in 2020. Police officials said officers had confiscated 1,132 guns, compared with 1,199 in all of 2021.
Demian Bulwa is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: demian.bulwa@sfchronicle.com
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