Posted on 05/17/2009 8:47:04 AM PDT by thecodont
A car carrying four suspects in a Berkeley homicide slammed into a vehicle in North Oakland while fleeing from police Saturday evening, killing two people - one a motorist, the other a pedestrian - in a horrific chain-reaction crash, police said.
The crash happened at 6:41 p.m. at the corner of Aileen Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland, six minutes after police received reports of a shooting in West Berkeley that left a young man dead, authorities said.
The suspects crashed their Cadillac into a Mazda at the busy intersection, killing a motorist. That car then spun into the path of a pedestrian - killing that person - before coming to rest against a building, said Berkeley police Sgt. Mary Kusmiss.
"It was quite a mangled scene," Kusmiss said.
The names of the victims in the shooting and the crash weren't immediately released.
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Nothing much said about the perpetrators, of course.
I heard this pursuit going on several blocks away. It seemed from the noise that there were many police cruisers involved.
Funny way to honor Martin Luther King. In almost every city that street is a magnet for crime.
What in the heck does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
Great comment on the story. In response to someone who said “it starts with a gun”.
“No, it does not.”
“It starts with people who lack morals and self-discipline, and lack respect for their own life and the lives of others. It starts with people who worship themselves.”
Well, even if they weren’t murderers before, they’re murderers now. The reporters sure went to a lot of effort throwing around facts that had nothing to do with the case, trying to turn it into an anti-police story, and even they ended up having to give up.
Ha, you saw that too!
So here are two journalists turning themselves into pretzel shapes in an effort to not point to the real source of the problem.
I still call ‘Martin Luther King Jr. Way’: Grove Street.
The old curmudgeon...
Yes, and I still refer to "International Boulevard" by its old name, East 14th Street.
I’ve been away from there for 19 years. Things do change, don’t they.
I lived in East Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda from ‘53 until ‘90.
RIP.
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