Update, 12:30 p.m. Thursday: At least two, still-unidentified assailants armed with handguns, and an accomplice, breached the entrance of Rudsdale High School on the King Estates campus in East Oakland early Wednesday afternoon, firing more than 30 rounds and wounding six adults, including two students, Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said during a Thursday press conference.
The assailants did not make it far inside the school, and appeared to be targeting specific people, although their motive is still unclear, Armstrong said. Those wounded, he noted, "were not the targets." Along with the two adult students, the victims include a counselor, a security guard and two other people who work at the school. Three of them remain hospitalized, two in critical condition, he said. The other three have been treated and released.
All three schools on the Kings Estates campus remained closed on Thursday, according to Oakland Unified spokesperson John Sasaki. “And they will, at least for the time being, remain closed because of the fact that we have to repair a lot of damage on the campus that occurred yesterday,” he said. The district, he added, is offering support services to students and their families.
Original post, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday: Six adults were wounded, including two in critical condition, during a shooting at a school campus in East Oakland on Wednesday, authorities said.
The shooting occurred around 12:45 p.m. at the King Estates campus of schools located on the 8200 block of Fontaine Street, near Interstate Highway 580 in Oakland's Oak Knoll/Golf Links neighborhood. The site houses three schools, including the Bay Area Technology School (BayTech), Sojourner Truth Independent Study and Rudsdale High School, which has a program that serves recent immigrants ages 16-21 who have fled violence and instability in their home countries.