$10K Reward Offered In Slaying Near Occupy Oakland Camp
OAKLAND (CBS / AP) -- A $10,000 reward is being offered for information in the shooting death of a man on the edge of the Oakland plaza anti-Wall Street protesters have occupied for the last month.
The Oakland Police Department and Crime Stoppers of Oakland announced the reward on Friday, a day after the fatal gunfire led city officials to intensify pressure on the Occupy Oakland encampment to disband.
Police Officer Johanna Watson said in a statement that witnesses have told investigators that one suspect had been living for the past several days in the plaza in front of Oakland City Hall where the protest camp is located.
The department released a description of that man and for a second suspect.
The first suspect was described as a black man, with short hair, between 20 and 25 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds. He was wearing a white T-shirt.
The second suspect was described as a black man, in his 20s or 30s, between 5 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 11 inches tall, and weighing about 250 pounds. He has long dreadlocks with red tips and possibly a tattoo on the back of his neck. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, police said.
Authorities have not yet identified the man who was killed. Occupy Oakland organizers have said he was not part of the encampment.
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