OAKLAND (KCBS RADIO) – Police are offering a $15,000 reward for information after three people were injured in a shooting at a youth football game at Oakland Technical High School on Sunday afternoon, while one of the teams says "street beef" was behind the violence.
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Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong told reporters on Monday afternoon that the department is specifically looking for for "physical descriptions, photos, videos that anyone at this event may have."
Officials said people with information can call the department's felony unit at 510-238-3426.
"This is important information," LeRonne Armstrong said on Monday afternoon. "I hope that we as a community can say that this is unacceptable, that these children's lives were put at risk yesterday and somebody needs to be held accountable for this."
A 6-year-old girl, a man in his 30s and a woman in her 50s were injured in the shooting, which occurred at Oakland Technical High School during a Pop Warner game between the Oakland Dynamites and the Fresno-based Valley Boyz.
Oakland police officers responded to reports of gunfire near Oakland Technical High School around 1:15 p.m., according to a statement from the Oakland Police Department on Monday morning. Police said the violence was not related to the football game, but the shooting's cause remains under investigation.
Dynamites officials told KGO in a statement on Monday that "some street beef spilled onto the football field," calling the violence an "Oakland problem."
Armstrong said Monday that the Oakland Police Department will provide security for the Dynamites' forthcoming games and practices. Police did the same last year after an Oakland father was shot and killed on Feb. 24, 2021 at a park where the team practiced.
Some of the children are still in counseling from that shooting, and Armstrong said the department will continue to offer it following Sunday's shooting.
"We owe it to these children to unveil these people, bring forth the photos and identities of those responsible for this," Armstrong said. "Take that somewhere else. You can't be on a field where children are, and I hope the community stands with me in saying that we will not condone this behavior."
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