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BERKELEY POLICE DEPARTMENT
2100
Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704-1109
(510) 981-5900
D.
E. BUTLER, CHIEF OF POLICE
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PRESS RELEASE ***
BERKELEY – On Saturday March 23rd at approximately
11:30p.m., Officers responded to the area of McGee and Russell Streets
for a reported physical altercation.
As they were arriving, a citizen reported that one of the
combatants had been shot.
Upon Officers arrival, they found a man who had apparently suffered a
gunshot wound to the head. The
victim was transported to Highland Hospital where he is listed in
critical condition. He has
been identified as Raymond Smith, a 25-year-old San Pablo resident.
The suspect description is an African-American male in his 20’s or 30’s,
wearing a dark colored watch cap.
Anyone
with information is asked to contact the Homicide Detail at (510)
981-5741.
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