Crime & Safety
Two Teens Arrested in Connection with Sacramento Street Shootings
Police arrested Tyrone Anthony Terrell of Berkeley and Tyler Frank Jamison, both 18, on suspicion of shooting two men at Sacramento and Woolsey streets in December.
Police have arrested two teens suspected of injuring two people in a daytime shooting in Berkeley last month, according to a police press release.
Berkeley police detectives arrested Tyrone Anthony Terrell, 18, and Tyler Frank Jamison, also 18 — both Berkeley residents. Jamison is being held without bail at the Santa Rita Jail. Berkeleyside reports that Jamison has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and assault with a firearm, among other charges.
On Dec. 23, 2011, two men were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after a shooting near the intersection of Sacramento and Woolsey streets at around 12:40 p.m., according to police.
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Berkeley police Lt. Andrew Greenwood said police received several calls at about 12:41 p.m. from residents in that area reporting that shots had been fired.
When police arrived at the scene three minutes later they didn't find any victims or suspects, Greenwood said.
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A local hospital notified police a short time later that two male victims had been dropped off there suffering from gunshot wounds, he said.
None of their wounds were considered life threatening and both victims were released from the hospital.
Witnesses at the scene said the suspect or suspects fled up Woolsey Street so police did a house-by-house search of a two-block area but didn't find anyone, Greenwood said.
Homicide detectives took over the investigation and identified the two suspects. Detectives sent a wanted bulletin within the Berkeley Police Department and neighboring agencies for both suspects, police said.
On Jan. 13, a patrol officer spotted Terrell at the same intersection where the shooting had occurred in December.
The patrol officer detained Terrell and booked him into the Berkeley Police Department jail, police said. Officers arrested Jamison the same day.
Police said this was not a random shooting, but that no motive has been established.
Bay City News contributed to this report.
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