The Oakland community is once again reeling from gun violence after six people were shot at a school in the city's Eastmont Hills neighborhood.
Oakland police officials said the shooting took place at the King Estate campus on Fontaine Street, which houses multiple schools. Officers are looking for at least one shooter, but add other suspects might be involved.
Pastor Phyllis Scott said her and other community leaders are letting people know they are available should they need any type of support.
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"We're here and anything that they may need from resources to prayer, to be able to just share what they're feeling," she said. "We check the pulse of our community and if they're fine, we don't say anything. Is the ministry of just being there."
Wednesday’s Oakland school board meeting started differently and ended early as a result of the shooting on school property.
“We share the grief, the fear, hurt and loss of people who were injured and their families,” said OUSD board president Gary Yee.
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One of the school board student representatives is demanding the district spend some of the money it saved when it eliminated school policing.
“Our young people have been expressing that they aren’t feeling safe. I think school safety should be the school board ‘s priority, even before the recent events had occurred,” said OUSD student director Samantha Pal.
County health leaders said that shootings have doubled over the past couple of years in Oakland, with one health care executive sharing his personal pain after the shooting.
"I’m a son of Oakland. I grew up in Oakland. This is not the Oakland that I grew up in. I’m calling on community leaders and I’m prepare to lean in myself, we've got to do it differently, we've got to do something better,” said James Jackson, CEO of the Alameda Health System.
There were no concrete solutions to the wave of violence, but there was a community wide call to action.
“We want our community to come together. We want help from the media, we want help from city government, we want help from the nonprofit agencies, churches. Everybody must come together to make this stop!” said OUSD spokesperson John Sasaki.
