Some Questions Answered, Others Remain in Southside Shooting
The Daily Cal reported a story today that sheds some light on why the victim of Sunday night’s shooting would have ended up at AOPi:
The Oakland man who died in a sorority house in a possible homicide Monday was friends with a house employee, according to a crime bulletin issued last night
by the UCPD.The house employee found victim Wayne Drummond, 23, and transported him to the Alpha Omicron Pi house on Prospect Street without knowing that Drummond was severely injured, the bulletin said.
The employee then realized the severity of Drummond’s condition and called 911 from the house at about 2:30 a.m., the bulletin said. Paramedics arrived to find Drummond in shock and unconscious, but attempts to revive him failed.
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Civilians in the Telegraph area reported hearing a scuffle around 1 or 2 a.m. Monday on Durant Avenue near a now vacant building that once housed a Tower Records store, Galvan said. Police investigated the area but found no evidence of an altercation.
So now we apparently know how the man was transported to AOPi, but the question still remains as to why and even by what means he was transported there. As Ben pointed out earlier and if we assume that the man was shot around the location of the previous altercation, then this means the man was transported some 7 blocks uphill to AOPi, but the Alta Bates Herrick Campus location is 7 blocks of fairly level road from the scene of the shooting and their Emergency Room location is only 13 blocks down Telegraph. If he was transported by car, it would definitely not have been much if any harder to get the victim to one of the hospital locations than to AOPi, where they would have to wait for an ambulance to arrive.
Additionally, reports are that the suspected area of the shooting or surrounding areas were relatively populated at the time, so the fact that this employee was able to somehow pick up the victim and take him away without any apparent notice from citizens or police is strange. The DC also reports that the employee didn’t realize his friend was seriously injured and there wasn’t any outward sign of injury, which seems strange for a shooting victim.
Even with the answers we’re getting right now, it doesn’t look like much of anything regarding the shooting is certain for now.
