Feds, Police Seek Public's Help In Oakland Scientist's Murder
OAKLAND (CBS SF) -- Oakland police, the FBI and family members asked for the public's help Thursday in finding the suspects who were responsible for the fatal
shooting of a man in the city's Temescal district last month.
Brian Bole, a 30-year-old health care analyst, was walking home when he was shot and killed in the 3000 block of Richmond Boulevard, near Oakland's Auto Row, at about 12:15 a.m. on April 10.
Police released video surveillance images of "persons of interest" that Bole came in contact with on his walk home as well as a silver sedan that is a vehicle of interest.
Investigators said they would like to identify the people and talk to them because the may have been witnesses to the crime.
Police said the vehicle of interest is possibly a four-door silver Honda Accord with a sunroof that was made between 2003 and 2007.
One person of interest is described as a male of unknown race who was wearing a light blue baseball hat, a light blue shirt with a large light-colored horizontal stripe across the back and chest and dark colored pants.
Police describe the second person of interest as a black adult woman who was wearing layers of clothing and a head scarf and the third person of interest as a thin person of unknown race and unknown gender.
There is a reward of up to $30,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for killing Bole.
According a statement released by his family, Bole was born and raised in Tampa, Fla., and earned a degree in mathematics from Florida State University and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech.
His family said that while Bole was a student he had a NASA fellowship at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, specializing in fault analysis, which involved predicting and reducing the risk of system failures in unmanned aircraft.
But his family said Bole's "true passion was health care" and that last year he was hired for his dream job as a data scientist at Armus Corp. in San Mateo, where he was still working at the time of his death.
Bole's family said he loved hiking and camping and "spent many hours exploring San Francisco and Oakland, especially their ethnic restaurants and craft brew pubs."
Bole's father, Brad Bole, said, "We were all proud of Brian's achievements, but we were more proud of the man he had become."
Bole's family said, "We pray that Brian's killer is caught before another family suffers a senseless loss of someone dear to them."
In addition to his father, Bole is survived by his mother, Trish, his sister, Lauren, and his wife, Katie.
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