Conference is they are asking if you have videos or pictures to send that to Oakland Police to aid in their investigation. They did not tell us much beyond that six people were shot but they did confirm and ask the public to supply videos and pictures that could help in the investigation. They have not named suspects yet. They have not put out pictures yet. We dont know how many suspects there might be. We know from lieutenant kelly, he has been referring today so that makes us believe there are multiple suspects that we dont know they could be the victims. We have not been given any update. We are getting to your point about the fact that likely these are not the youngest children that are the victims given they were not taken to the childrens hospital. We are going to get an update from Oakland Unified School district. They wanted to assure the community that this incident did not happen at oak which is one of the younger schools. Earlier we heard from a parent whose child was four years old at one of the younger schools. It does appear this happened at one of the high schools in this complex. Frightening because there are so many preschools in that area. I want to go back to tim johns now. Know they d go detailut basedn unlm tayloto leanne, it sounded like the activity started outside and they entered the campus. That is where it happened. That is what it sounded like. Were you able to pick that up from your conversations with police . That is about what we got as well. As you might have heard, the details were a little bit light. Opd told us they would give us a very brief update. Slight update, we are expecting the assistant police chief to give a more detailed update sometime between 4 00 and 4 30. Just to reiterate some of the things we do know, six people have been taken to the hospital with some type of gunshot wound. There condition is not known at this time. They also reiterated for parents looking to come here and pick up their children, they asked them to go to fontaine and Church Street so that is where folks can meet their children. We have seen a lot of parents who have come to this area here near crest and fontaine to walk up to the school area to the complex to try to pick up their children. It is so much anxiety in the air. So much trepidation. O really at is evyowe are to be waitinfri wills in the studio. Lets go over to Leah Melendez speaking to another councilmember. She is at the location where these reunifications are happening. I want to make it clear. Police mistakenly said that the pickup place was church and mountain. It is in fact keller and mountain for those parents are watching or curious as to where to pick up their kids in case they have not heard. All of oakland is well aware of what has happened here. Councilmember for district seven treva reed, thank you for being here. Your mind is somewhere else understandably so. Can you make sense of all of this . None of us can make sense of this. It should not be the norm we are living this frequently. I cannot tell you how many homicides i have been on the side of this past week. Being at another School Shooting incident last month in my district. Being on top of the hill. Seeing the magnitude of what is taking place on the School Campus site where site. We are angry. We are frustrated. I dont even know we have had enough is the right word anymore. We certainly have not invested enough in our children. We have not invested enough in making sure what we are experiencing too often here with children taking violence as their measure of addressing their issues is not healthy. It has not served our children well. We have not given enough to invest the love and support and the programs and the initiatives that are needed particularly in this part of our community. Children are taking matters into their own hand. They are doing things in ways that are not healthy to resolve conflict. How these students believe they are going to resolve conflict by walking onto campus with guns and shooting students. With that said, taking guns and they should not have access. What youre are talking about is retaliation. We believe this is related to group and gang violence. Violence prevention intervention and the trauma care needed more deeply in this community. This is certainly what we understand and this investigation is certainly just beginning. They are working to identify those that were involved with the shooting. We understand there has been a rise in group and gang violence. That may be associated here at the school. Can you share anything else for this community to make sense of this . Do you know if how many people entered i cannot share how may people because that is still under investigation. I can share that six victims have been transported to local hospitals. I dont have the information on how many were teachers but i know the majority of them were School Student victims. Student victims the majority. What do you tell the community . What do you tell parents about the safety of their kids . That we owe them the safety of their students is in our hands. This is on our watch. We have to work with School Partners to make sure these schools are safe places for our children to come to, to thrive and get the educational enrichment to build relationships of trust. To know this is a place they can learn and not have to live afraid. These children who have left the school today are traumatized for life and we have not given them that sense of protection. We have to work in real strategies and solutions that are funded, deeply invested and consistent to show up our children every day and for our students and teachers working to be part of this incredible educational system to keep our kids moving forward. That sounds commendable. It sounds like that could take a very long time. In the meantime, what is the plan for tomorrow. Tomorrow, i dont know the school is going to be open tomorrow. We have to sit down with everyone involved. We have principles right here sitting and standing here traumatized. They cannot even tell you about tomorrow. As leaders we have to sit down and bring it together for them. We have to wrap our arms around the schools and districts and our students and families and give them the support and resources they needed. Our parents are saying keep my children safe at school so we have to talk about what that investment is, what that strategy is with our parers and with other communitybased organizations. We have to partner with the department of violence prevention who are on site with mentor programs helping our children learn how to resolve but we are hearing that has not been enough. We have to do better for them and come in together today around this incident is where it is going to start even more. Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate you. That was councilmember treva reed who represents this district or this is district seven. She made sentient of the debt she made mention of the principles being traumatized, the teachers. Pretty much the people who are left here are teachers who waited of course, of course they would. They would wait until someone picked up that student. Someone, a ramp a for relative, parents would come here to pick up their kids. I dont see many young people left here. All that i see right now are again, administrators, principals, teachers who made sure to be here when that parent arrived and to make sure that the kssuppord kids but also the staff who have been really traumatized. I am going to show you more of what we have back there. Just a lot of hugs and trying to make sense of all of this we have been witnessing for several weeks here in oakland. Ok so we are at keller and mountain. If you are a parent, you still have to pick up your kid. I dont see many kids left here but this was the location where a lot of the parents had to pick their kids up and you have heard throughout this afternoon the passion and the voices of people here who were witness to people like councilmembers saying something has to give. We need to come together. I will throw it back to you guys in the studio. Having just talked to councilman trevor reed, we are hearing from mayor libby schaaf in the form of the two week. Eight came a minute ago she says todays gun violence at Sojourner Truth shocks the soul. Our investigators report all six victims are adults. Our investigators report all six victims are adults and being treated for injuries at hospitals now. The school is clear and all children being reunited with families. She goes on to say the unbridled access to firearms in our country is inexcusable. That is the first word we have all victims are adults. Adults could be a team. Still could be a high School Student. He did hear from councilmember read in that interview that she was under the impression the majority of victims were students. We have not had that confirmed by Law Enforcement but it could be they are 18yearold adult, high school seniors. We will await and hopefully learn more could i know ryan curry is at Highland Hospital where there are three victims being treated. Still in Critical Condition. What is the update . We are expecting to hear from hospital officials within the next 20 to 25 minutes about the condition of the people being treated at the hospital. You mentioned they are in Critical Condition. It is the latest update we have from Highland Hospital. The biggest request is people do not congregate at the hospital. This is a very crowded area and a very narrow street. He did not want people in this area. They would rather them stay away. If you need to be relocated, they ask you do that in a different capacity right now. They are asking for privacy for the families who are affected by this. Of those three people being treated better in Critical Condition. Once we figure out when that update is coming, we will provide that to you about what the status is of the people being treated at the hospital. You did mention moments ago those six victims are adults and three of them being treated here at Highland Hospital. We are going to continue to monitor this once we figure out what is going on but they are in Critical Condition. They did not mention what the relationship is of the people at the school. We are waiting to hear that information. Once we get that update, we will provide it for you. That is ryan curry at Highland Hospital where there are three victims being treated. We did just get confirmation the other three victims are being treated at eden medical in Castro Valley. We dont have any more informations. A more information. It is worth repeating because this point can be confusing. It seems to be in conflict but not necessarily so. When councilman reed said the victims were majority students and then mayor schaaf saying they are well adults certainly as you pointed out, they could be 18yearolds. They could be adults who are high school seniors. Perhaps at the next update at Highland Hospital that ryan is waiting for in 15 minutes, we will get more clarity on that point. They tax school has put out social posts saying their students are all safe. We could interpret that to mean none of the people shot involve students at bay tech. It would be either ragsdale or sojourner students who were the ones shot. If that is the case. Those are just things we are trying to clarify for you. This happened just over two hours ago around 1 00 is when the shooting happened. We are still waiting to get specifics on exact what happened that led up to the shooting and during the shooting but from what Law Enforcement is saying, it does appear there were gunshots and some activity inside the school. Earlier, lee and belinda spoke with Councilmember Loren Taylor said from his understanding there was activity that began outside of the school and then went inside the school. I know we have some sound from that interview with councilmember taylor. Ok. Well bring that up in a minute that we do have tim johns on the scene at the school. What do you have for us . Another update for the Oakland Police department. We are expecting that sometime between 4 00 and 4 30. That information that six people are in the hospital with injuries. Just waiting for more information to come out, we have been talking to many parents. Dozens of whom have been filing past us here. We talked to a grandmother who said when she picked up her grandchild, he ran into her arms and said why am i happy to see you. He had heard someone that was doing something near the school. Talk to another father picking up his fouryearold daughter and he said we hear about these things all the time but to have it happen so close to home is so unsettling. Even if these kids are not old enough to understand what is going on, the reality is a lot of parents tonight in this community and around the bay area are going to have some difficult and Uncomfortable Conversations about safety, what to do in situations like this. Unfortunately these things do seem to keep on happening. We are waiting for more information from the oak and police department. We are expecting that in about an hour or so. Thank you very much. We do expect to hear from Oakland Police in about an hour and we expect to hear from Highland Hospital a little sooner than that in maybe 15 minutes with a new update. We know three patients are in Critical Condition related to the shooting should from the mayors to eat, we understand they are at least 18 years old, possibly older. We also know that three other victims are at eden medical in Castro Valley and we do not have their conditions at the moment. We also in addition know the reunification place where parents and kids can reunite is at a church at keller and mountain at 7900 fontaine street. We in melendez is there. Reports are that most students have left or reunited at this point with their parents. The main questions we have right now are what are the ages of these victims and what is the situation with the suspects . We believe at least more than one based on what Law Enforcement has told us. Who they are, do they go to the school, are they connected to the school . Those are questions we do not know. Will be due now is opd has told dan noyes a looks like they fled. Presumably not on the scene anymore. We understand they are looking for videos and pictures so perhaps they dont have total clarity yet on either the identities of the gunmen or they are trying to get more information or evidence. If you do have evidence in the way of video or pictures, you are asked to reach out to opd. We want to turn things over till the end melendez who has been at the church for us. I want to make this very brief because we are getting information little by little. As soon as i have any information, i immediately let you guys know. What we just found out was after talking to councilmember traver read who represents this district, she immediately after my previous interview with her got on the phone with the captain who is investigating this from the Oakland Police department. They were in conversation. I was close to her. She wanted me to find out the outcome of that conversation. When she was off the phone, she told me it was six victims, adults but she reminded me and he told her that the adults could be 18 meaning that definitely there were students. That is what the captain told the councilmember. How many we do not know. The ages are again 18 and above. I asked her what school. That is a bit of Information Police are not revealing at this moment. She had initially told me before it was some kind of retaliation. Gunmen went in with a purpose of some kind of retaliation against students, perhaps teachers. We dont know but again, definitely adults 18 and above. That is what we know so far so we are grateful to her for providing that bed of information. Just recapping here, most students are gone. What you see behind me are teachers, Staff Members from the different schools. Four schools on that campus. They were waiting for all the kids to be picked up. What you see behind me is some kind of i was going to say prayer but doesnt seem like it is a prayer. It seems like the principal or somebody is addressing other members of their staff after todays shooting. I tell you, all these people need a shoulder to lean on right now. That is what we are seeing. The community being supportive. Talking about what next strategies. A lot of people very emotionally affected affected, emotionally distraught at this moment. Just to give you if you can pan to the right, thank you. The overpass is closed on both sides of the freeway. That is going to stay that way for a while. We went to give you the lay of the land so you can see what is going on. This was the location where parents were picking up their kids, the church on keller and mountain. I dont see any more kids which is a good thing. Picked up by family members and so forth. The healing process starts the moment this happened. This is a community that is going to try very hard to make sense of this. This is still an ongoing investigation. We are trying to give you as much information at the moment that we can. I will toss it back to you guys. Thank you very much, especially clarifying that point after hearing that conversation that councilman reed had and relayed to you to clarify who was shot and we understand six victims. Because the mayor said adults, there is the question of are they students . Answer was they can be 18 years old and they can be students. Leanne was pretty confident saying the councilman was saying definitely students are among the victims but definitely students. There is a lot of talk about what could be brought in as support for the students in terms of helping resolve conflicts or supporting them so that they do not resort to violence was one of the questions i think one of the Community Organizers had. Right now we do have something that one of the grandmothers whose kids attend the school. He came running at me. I am so glad to see you. Obviously we were hugging and really happy. As we walked, he said i was so worried and he said somebody did something bad at the next school and he was so worried. I am very relieved to have him be safe and im very concerned about these situations. What are we going to do about this . We have been talking on our show this happens over and over not just in our community but across the country. We never really lived like this in the past. Have you noticed a change in our society . When i was a baby, my mom would have me in a carriage and she would go into a store and leave me in carriage outside of the story. I grew up in new york. It was not some rural area. A completely changed. It is really scary and horrible. I dont know the answers but i know that violence is wrong and hard and difficult. Coming to get our children in these situations and there is a child in another school right now or several who might not be with us anymore and it is horrifying. For the people perpetrating the violence. Culture where this is happening and we are not doing enough. That was a tough conversation and grandmother had. Changing really are hearing different pieces of information but stephanie is informing us Oakland Police are saying that earlier information from councilmember read was not quite right and most of the victims are actually not students. That is as much as we can tell you because there are a lot of moving pieces and hopefully we will get more clarity when Highland Hospital hold their next briefing in five minutes from now. We understand have three patients. They are in Critical Condition at last check. The mayor does say they are adults. Sitting most of the victims are not students still could mean there are some victims that our students and regardless, there is going to be similar questions as we have already heard frustration with interviews on the air today about allies is this happening to begin with . Why is gunfire erupting in school to begin with . Whether the actual people shot were mostly students or some students were none of them were students, our students are seeing gun violence in their schools, in their place of learning. They as a result are having to deal with this trauma, the anxiety they carry with them to school everyday and one of the Community Organizers, i believe she was talking to leanne, made the point that how can we learn that is three the environment that is around you . There is no question something needs to be done if there is any sort of continuity and uniformity in some of the things we are learning whether it is a parent, a grandparent, the officials, councilmembers. Seven needs to be done to adjust the gun violence and gun violence in the schools. Here in california, we do have strict gun laws compared to other states in this country. When it comes to ghost guns which we keep hearing repeatedly from Law Enforcement is a huge cause of a lot of the violence in oakland and around the bay area. We did here earlier this year Governor Newsom in july took further action to restrict ghost guns to protect kids from gun violence. He signed legislation to get guns off the street to further ban these ghost guns which are guns that are untraceable, made illegally or in illegal ways and right now, that seems to be a major issue that needs to be addressed because guns are getting into the hands of kids, miners and too many people and we are seeing this far to often happen. Adding to the sense of hapless of helplessness a lot of people seem to feel, they often point to the fact even if you can stop new guns from getting into the hands of children, we already have some 400 million guns in the u. S. That is more than the number of people we have. The u. S. Is unique in that way and there are many factors for that being the case. That is our reality right now and the question is what more can we do that can be practical and effective given the state of our politics and state of affairs right now. I want to bring up one more point and this speaks to the motive. Although police have not specifically address that. Councilmember reed did say the word retaliation. We are waiting for police to try to confirm that. Our own dan noyes has been in touch with Police Sources and he is getting the sense this could be hr cadet event. Which i think as the more we are hearing from Law Enforcement it is starting to hear that starting to seem a could be that situation. There is some incident outside the school attic came into the school hopefully we get more information soon. We are told Highland Hospital will have one at any moment. We will continue to bring that life here on our 24 7 stream. We are going to go off air for world news with david muir. Hurricane ian is bettering florida. You will get that from david muir. 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