POSTED: 10:24 am PST November 12, 2006
OAKLAND -- Oakland police were investigating a pair of weekend homicides Sunday including the slaying of a pregnant mother of two, who was killed after she was caught in the crossfire of a gun battle outside a troubled nightclub.Authorities said that Shirley Deanna Smith, 30, was not involved in the dispute and was merely an innocent bystander.
She had come to Mingles nightclub to attend a local rapper's birthday party. Smith died at the hospital less than one hour after the shooting and doctors couldn't save her 16-week-old fetus. Police said the shooting may have stemmed from an earlier argument at the club near Jack London Square.
They say two groups started shooting at each other outside the club and Smith was caught in the middle while walking to her car . Smith's two children are now in foster care. The shooting was the third so far this year associated with the club.
Oakland's homicide tally grew to 132 for the year Saturday night when a man was gunned down near a school just west of the city's border with San Leandro.T
he shooting was reported around 11 p.m. Saturday, police said. It happened in the 400 block of 105th Avenue by Knight Street and near the Lionel Wilson College Preparatory Academy charter school.There was no immediate word on a suspect.
OAKLAND -- Oakland police were investigating a pair of weekend homicides Sunday including the slaying of a pregnant mother of two, who was killed after she was caught in the crossfire of a gun battle outside a troubled nightclub.Authorities said that Shirley Deanna Smith, 30, was not involved in the dispute and was merely an innocent bystander.
She had come to Mingles nightclub to attend a local rapper's birthday party. Smith died at the hospital less than one hour after the shooting and doctors couldn't save her 16-week-old fetus. Police said the shooting may have stemmed from an earlier argument at the club near Jack London Square.
They say two groups started shooting at each other outside the club and Smith was caught in the middle while walking to her car . Smith's two children are now in foster care. The shooting was the third so far this year associated with the club.
Oakland's homicide tally grew to 132 for the year Saturday night when a man was gunned down near a school just west of the city's border with San Leandro.T
he shooting was reported around 11 p.m. Saturday, police said. It happened in the 400 block of 105th Avenue by Knight Street and near the Lionel Wilson College Preparatory Academy charter school.There was no immediate word on a suspect.
