Crime & Safety

Police Identify Victim Killed In Mass Shooting Near UC Berkeley Campus

Isamaeli Semaia Mataafa, 29, died at Highland Hospital from his wounds at around 6:36 a.m.

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October 12, 2022

Days after three were injured and one was killed in a shooting a block from the UC Berkeley campus, police have identified the victim who died from his wounds.

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Isamaeli Semaia Mataafa, 29, died at Highland Hospital from his wounds at around 6:36 a.m. He had been brought to the hospital just 5 hours earlier.

The shooting occurred around 1 a.m. at the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Durant Avenue, about a block away from Unit 3, a complex made up of several buildings with dozens of dormitory housing, mostly first-year students.

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