Police Release Names of 2 Recent Oakland Homicide Victims

Oakland police today released the names of two recent homicide victims, one of which was a teenage boy. Dwan Taylor, a 16-year-old who also went by the name "Redd", was fatally shot in the 8800 block of Hillside Street at about 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 16.

According to a GoFundMe account set up on behalf of Taylor's family, he was a student at Fremont High School in Oakland. The account had raised $5,785 as of this morning.

More recently, a fatal shooting at 10:46 p.m. Thursday in the 8000 block of Olive Street took the life of 23-year-old Ruben Alvarado of Oakland. Police aren't yet releasing the name of another homicide victim
last week, a man who was found fatally stabbed at Mosswood Park on Wednesday morning.

Oakland police haven't released information about motives or suspects in any of the three recent homicides.

By Bay City News

Photo courtesy GoFundMe