Two people were killed and two others wounded Saturday morning when a verbal argument turned into a shooting in the San Francisco Bay Area, police said.
Gunfire erupted in a residential part of East Oakland shortly after 9 a.m.
Officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 1600 block of 83rd Avenue to find four people suffering from gunshot wounds.
Two victims were pronounced dead at the scene. The two others were hospitalized in an unknown condition.
Police said the shooting stemmed from a verbal altercation involving several people.
One of the involved individuals pulled out a gun and began shooting, firing multiple rounds at the crowd, before taking off in a vehicle.
The victims’ names are being withheld pending next-of-kin’s notification.
