Video captures dramatic shooting at Oakland Juneteenth Celebration
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An Oakland Juneteenth celebration ended in tragedy when multiple people got shot … and the whole thing was on video, including footage of folks running and ducking for cover.
The festivities went down at Lake Merritt — a lagoon centrally located in the city — and took a turn for the worse Wednesday evening … after a group of individuals started doing donuts in cars and on motorbikes at a major intersection in town.
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Video from the sideshow before bullets started flying looks relatively fun/ innocent — this type of thing is common in the Bay Area, BTW — with lots of laughing and enjoying themselves.
However, this is where cops say everything went wrong … ’cause a fight broke out in the crowd that ended with unknown gunmen firing multiple shots back and forth … and injuring several people in the process.
The follow-up clip shows several bodies laid out on the ground, either after being shot or keeping down to avoid the bullets as gunshot after gunshot echoes around the intersection.