Four killed at Orinda Halloween party shooting
UPDATE 11/1/2019 6:15 p.m. The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office has identified four people killed in a shooting Halloween night.
It said 22-year-old Tiyon Farley of Antioch, 24-year-old Omar Taylor of Pittsburg, 23-year-old Ramon Hill Jr. of San Francisco/Oakland and 29-year-old Javin County of Sausalito/Richmond died in the shooting. Four others were taken to local hospitals with injuries from gunshot wounds and getting away from the scene.
The Sheriff’s Office said it has not arrested anyone for the shooting. The department went to the short-term rental where the shooting happened and found two guns and several shell casings. Law enforcement has also interviewed many witnesses.
The shooting happened at a house party in Orinda at around 10:50 p.m. There were more than 100 people at the party from all over the Bay Area. The home had been rented on Airbnb by a woman who told the owner her dozen family members needed a place with fresh air, the person with knowledge of the transaction told The Associated Press.
A one-night rental on Halloween was suspicious enough that before agreeing to rent the home, the owner reminded the renter that no parties were allowed, said the person, who was not authorized to publicly disclose the information and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
The renter, whose name and hometown have not been disclosed, told the homeowner that her family members had asthma and needed a place with fresh air. A giant wildfire burning in Sonoma County about 60 miles (97 kilometers) north of Orinda earlier in the week forced tens of thousands to evacuate and fouled the air over a wide area.
UPDATE 11/1/2019 11:15 a.m. Four people were killed and at least three wounded at a Halloween night party shooting at a rental house in a wealthy San Francisco Bay Area community, authorities said Friday.
The home in the San Francisco suburb of Orinda had been rented out on Airbnb for what the renter said would be a family reunion, the home’s owner said. According to Associated Press sources, the woman told the homeowner she and her family were fleeing wildfires, and the homeowner wanted to make sure she wasn’t planning a Halloween party. But more than 100 people showed up and police were called to the house late Thursday night, police Chief David Cook told the East Bay Times.
Authorities initially reported that four people were wounded but the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office said later that the exact number of wounded victims was unknown because some of those injured went on their own to hospitals.
No suspects had been arrested by late Friday morning.
One of the people wounded was in critical condition at the John Muir Medical Center in the nearby city of Walnut Creek, hospital spokesman Ben Drew said. Another patient was in serious condition and a third was treated and released. He said he could not specify the types of injuries.
Michael Wang, who owns the 4,000-square-foot (372-square-meter) house, said he rented it out to a woman through Airbnb for what the woman said would be a family reunion for a dozen people, according to The San Francisco Chronicle .
Wang said his wife reached out to the woman after neighbors called complaining about excessive noise. The woman said there were only 12 people at the party, but Wang said he could see more people via video from his Ring doorbell camera.
Airbnb is “urgently investigating” what happened, spokesman Ben Breit said in an email.
Police did not immediately provide information about the victims or what prompted the violence home a half-mile (0.8 kilometers) from downtown Orinda. The four-bedroom home with high vaulted ceilings and woodsy views last sold for $1.2 million in 2017.
Video from the scene posted by KGO-TV showed patients being loaded into ambulances as others limped away from the scene.
Residents of the neighborhood were frustrated with the party’s noise before the shooting, said neighbor Chris Gade.
“It was just more of a noise complaint that we were worried about originally,” he told reporters.
Then Gade said he heard gunshots and saw people “screaming and fleeing down the hill.”
“I think everybody in our neighborhood immediately locked our doors and started messaging each other, trying to figure out what was going on,” he said. “This just doesn’t happen in Orinda.”
Orinda Mayor Inga Miller told KCBS Radio she had not previously heard of any complaints about short-term rentals in the neighborhood. Orinda, population about 20,000, requires short-term rental hosts to register with the city annually and pay an occupancy tax. The maximum occupancy is two people per bedroom plus three people not assigned to bedrooms.
“It’s a very somber day here in Orinda,” she said.
UPDATED: 11/1/2019 8:56 a.m. New information has come in about what happened at the Halloween night shooting in Orinda.
The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office says reports of a shooting first came in at 10:50 Thursday night. Orinda Police Officers went to a home on the 100 block of Lucille Way in Orinda.
Officers say they found a large house party with over one hundred people there.
There were three apparent gunshot victims who were pronounced dead at the scene. Another died later at the hospital.
The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office says other victims were taken to local hospitals by ambulance. The exact number is not known as some victims transported themselves to the hospital.
The Sheriff’s Office says the investigation is ongoing.
UPDATED 11/1/2019 6:30 a.m. The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed at least four people have died in a Halloween night shooting in Orinda. They also report that multiple people were injured.
This is a developing story, check back here for updates.
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The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office reported Thursday night the investigation into the shooting was active in the area of Lucille Way and Knickerbocker.
A tweet by the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office public information officer indicated that multiple people were shot in the incident.
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Police told CBS Bay Area affiliate KPIX 5 they are being overwhelmed by the crowd where the shooting happened, reportedly at a Halloween party.
There was no confirmed information regarding injuries, number of victims or suspects in the shooting as of early Friday morning.
No other information about the shooting was immediately available from authorities.
This is a developing story check back here for updates.
