A man who suffered critical injuries in a shooting Thursday afternoon in Oakland was transported to a hospital and pronounced deceased hours later, according to the Oakland Police Department. Oakland police responded at 4:15 p.

The shooting marked the 74th killing this year to be investigated as a homicide by the Oakland Police Department. It also marked the third fatal shooting this week in the city, breaking a span that dated to Sept. 28 of zero homicides across Oakland. At this same point in 2023, police had investigated 112 homicides.

Oakland police were investigating the city's first homicide in almost seven weeks Wednesday afternoon. Officers responded to several reports of gunfire around the 1100 block of 71st Avenue at about 2:30 p.m. Once at the scene, they found a person who had been shot at least once and was pronounced dead by paramedics a short time later.

On Wednesday afternoon, Oakland saw its first reported homicide since September after a person was found shot to death on 71st Avenue. The following day, a person was shot a block away from Lake Merritt around 4:15 p.