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2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 981-5900, TDD: (510) 981-5799, police@ci.berkeley.ca.us

 

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*** PRESS RELEASE ***

 Contact: Lt. Cynthia Harris, Detective Bureau, Press Officer, (510) 981-5733

BERKELEY On January 28, 2002 at approximately 9:30a.m.., Officers were responding to the 2000 block of Blake Street for a disturbance.  As they were arriving they heard a gunshot and then saw a woman with a handgun.

The woman immediately surrendered to the police.

Thus far it has been determined that there was some sort of physical altercation between the victim of the shooting and a woman living at the residence, not the person responsible for the shooting.  The victim does not live there.

The woman had yelled for assistance from her female roommate who came to her aid and subsequently shot the man who was trying to physically hurt her roommate.

The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the thigh and was transported to Highland Hospital by ambulance.

No one is in custody at this time and the matter is under investigation.