Police said officers responded to gunfire near Foothill Boulevard and 64th Avenue and found victims on two nearby blocks.
OAKLAND, CA — A man and a woman were killed and another man was critically injured after a shooting Saturday night in East Oakland’s Frick neighborhood, where police said officers were sent to the area of Foothill Boulevard and 64th Avenue just before 8:15 p.m.
The shooting quickly became one of Oakland’s latest homicide investigations and added to a case that stretched across two nearby streets, with officers finding wounded men on Foothill Boulevard and a woman dead around the corner on 64th Avenue. By Monday, the Alameda County coroner had identified the two people who died as Derrick Hubbard, 31, and Isaanae Morton, 24, both of Oakland. Police have not announced arrests, a motive or whether the victims were together when the gunfire began.
According to Oakland police, officers were dispatched after multiple ShotSpotter activations and reached the 6400 block of Foothill Boulevard within minutes of the reports. There, they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds. Both were taken to a hospital. One of the men later died after arriving there, while the other was left in critical condition. Around the corner, on the 2800 block of 64th Avenue, officers located a woman who had been shot and pronounced her dead at the scene. Police later said Hubbard was the man who died at Highland Hospital and Morton was found dead on the steps of Frick United Academy of Language. The gap between the two locations was short, but it widened the scene and left investigators combing more than one block for evidence. Officers shut down the intersection for hours, placed evidence markers on the pavement and interviewed neighbors who came outside after hearing the shots.
Police have released only a limited account of what happened before the gunfire. Investigators have said officers were led to the area by the acoustic gunfire detection system, but they have not said whether any 911 calls first reported the shooting, how many shooters may have been involved or whether the victims were struck in one burst of violence or while moving between locations. Authorities also have not said what kind of vehicle or vehicles, if any, were seen leaving the area. In the earliest public updates, police withheld the names of the dead while relatives were being notified. The coroner’s office later identified the two victims, while police said the surviving man remained hospitalized. His name has not been released publicly. Oakland police have asked anyone with information, photos or video to contact the department’s homicide section or send footage directly to investigators, a sign that detectives are still building the basic timeline of the attack.
The shooting unfolded in a part of East Oakland where residents have long lived with repeated bursts of street violence, even as city leaders and police have pointed to recent improvements in major crime numbers. Local reporting on the case noted that police data showed homicides in Oakland were down from the same stretch a year earlier, and the department has said violent crime overall has eased in early 2026. But statistics offer only broad trend lines, not much comfort on a block sealed by yellow tape on a Saturday night. For people who live near Foothill Boulevard, the scene was familiar in its details: patrol cars angled across the roadway, investigators searching for shell casings, and a crowd forming behind the perimeter trying to piece together what had happened. The killings were counted as Oakland’s 15th and 16th homicide investigations of the year, compared with 26 at the same point last year, according to figures reported Monday. Even with that year-over-year drop, the latest case underscored how quickly a single shooting can shake a neighborhood that already feels watched by crime data and weary of being reduced to it.
The case now moves into the slower, less visible phase of a homicide investigation. Detectives must determine whether the three victims were targeted, whether the shooting grew out of an argument, and whether evidence from the street scene, surveillance cameras or witness statements can identify a suspect. Police have not said that charges are imminent, and no court filings tied to the shooting had been announced publicly by Monday. The surviving victim’s medical condition could become an important part of the case, since investigators often rely on a wounded survivor to describe what happened, who was present and whether there was any warning before shots were fired. The location of Morton’s body on school steps may also draw added attention from investigators and city officials because it places part of the violence at the edge of a campus property, even though the shooting happened Saturday night. For now, the next formal milestones are likely to be either an arrest announcement, the release of more investigative details from Oakland police, or new court records if a suspect is charged.
Residents who spoke publicly after the shooting described a neighborhood rattled not only by the deaths but by the sense that gunfire can break out with little warning. Melvina Hardaway, who has lived in the area for more than 50 years, told KTVU, “Maybe more police around. I think that’s what we need.” Another longtime East Oakland resident, Alfredo Romero, voiced frustration with the city’s broader response to crime, saying local leaders have talked about change without delivering enough of it on the street. Those reactions did not answer the central questions in the case, but they showed the mood around the block after investigators cleared the scene. By daylight, the public record still had major holes: police had not explained how Morton ended up on the school steps, whether Hubbard was shot at the same exact spot as the surviving man, or what sequence placed three victims across two addresses. What remained was a familiar Oakland aftermath — grief, anger, unanswered questions and another call from police for witnesses to come forward.
As of Monday, investigators had identified the two people who died and said the third victim survived, but they had not announced arrests or a motive. The next public update is expected to come if detectives release new case details or submit charges in court.
Author note: Last updated April 21, 2026.