{"id":1527,"date":"2008-01-12T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T18:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2008-01-12T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T18:57:14","slug":"oakland-trib-boy-taking-piano-lesson-struck-by-stray-bullet-in-north-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/oakland-trib-boy-taking-piano-lesson-struck-by-stray-bullet-in-north-oakland\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Trib: Boy taking piano lesson struck by stray bullet in North Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a robbery, gunfire and a chase in my neighborhood Thursday. There was an insane number of police cars, when I drove right by that music school maybe 20-30 minutes after it happened, and as I tried to drive down 51st towards Telegraph Ave., that intersection was barricaded for a block in each direction. <\/p>\n

Sheesh. My thoughts are with the boy and his family.<\/p>\n

Oakland Tribune<\/a>: <\/p>\n

A 10-year-old boy shot Thursday by a stray bullet fired during a robbery could face permanent paralysis in his legs, authorities said today, although they won’t know for sure for several days. A spokesperson at Children’s Hospital Oakland, where the boy remains in fair condition, would not discuss his injuries.<\/p>\n

The boy was taking piano lessons at a music school in North Oakland about 4:32 p.m. when the bullet came through the wall and struck him.<\/p>\n

Katharine Wells, office manager at the Piedmont Piano Co. at Pleasant Valley and Piedmont avenues<\/a>, said she heard gunshots, which were fired during an armed robbery of a Chevron station across the street. <\/p>\n

. . . <\/p>\n

The Piedmont Piano Co. Harmony Road Music School<\/a>, where the boy was shot, was open Friday but remained quiet.<\/p>\n

Will Cunningham, an attendant who has been employed at the Chevron gas station for the past 13 years, said it was the first time such a thing had happened in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Police gave the following account of the incident: With his girlfriend, Maeve Clifford, 19, in the passenger seat, Adams started to flee the gas station in a Mustang, but quickly came in sight of two police officers who had heard the gunfire while investigating a traffic wreck nearby at Howe Street and Pleasant Valley.<\/p>\n

They chased the Mustang to 51st Street and Telegraph Avenue<\/a>, where it collided with a silver four-door sedan containing a woman and two children and then hit a parked Chevrolet Avalanche truck. Adams tried to run off but was arrested.<\/p>\n

Police said Adams is suspected of other robberies in Oakland and possibly other cities. They said he used to work at the now-closed Berkeley Iceland.<\/p>\n

He was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a firearm, armed robbery, evading police, hit-and-run, auto theft and carrying a concealed firearm. Authorities said Adams has prior convictions for possession of a concealed weapon and evading arrest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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There was a robbery, gunfire and a chase in my neighborhood Thursday. There was an insane number of police cars, when I drove right by that music school maybe 20-30 minutes after it happened, and as I tried to drive down 51st towards Telegraph Ave., that intersection was barricaded for a block in each direction. Sheesh. My thoughts are with the boy and his family. Oakland Tribune: A 10-year-old boy shot Thursday by a stray bullet fired during a robbery…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[140,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-oakland","category-rockridge","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-oD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}