"The victim in one of several shootings that took place Saturday morning, in the aftermath of the First Fridays street festival in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood, has been identified as a 28-year-old who recently moved to Oakland from SF. The family of the victim has identified them as John "Mica" Esquibell Esquibell's social media accounts indicate that they used they/them pronouns."
"As KTVU reports, Esquibell was with friends buying empanadas from a street vendor on the 1700 block of San Pablo Avenue around 3 am Saturday when someone started "shooting at random," according to witnesses. That fatal shooting was preceded by a shooting in which someone was injured just two blocks away at 19th and Broadway at 2:15 am, and two more victims suffered gunshot wounds around 3:30 am, also in the same vicinity, with another victim who succumbed to their wounds."
"The Oakland Police Officer's Association has said the shootings occurred as a result of crowds who had gathered for the First Fridays celebration, though that event had officially ended hours earlier. Other shootings have occurred in past years that were linked to First Fridays, including a woman who was killed in the middle of the festival footprint at 19th and Teleraph just after the event ended in July 2024."
John "Mica" Esquibell, 28, recently moved from San Francisco to Oakland and used they/them pronouns on social media while family members have used he/him. Esquibell worked as general manager at the Stiizy cannabis dispensary in SoMa and was an artist. Esquibell was with friends buying empanadas on the 1700 block of San Pablo Avenue around 3 a.m. when someone began shooting, according to witnesses. Multiple shootings occurred across Uptown that night, including earlier and subsequent shootings at 19th and Broadway, 18th Street, and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, resulting in at least two fatalities.
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