On the fourth anniversary of when 27-year-old Patrick Scott Jr. was shot and killed at an Oakland bus stop, law enforcement are reminding the public of a $30,000 reward for information related to the case.
The FBI San Francisco Division and the Oakland Police Department are investigating Scott’s murder, with the FBI offering up to $20,000 for information and Oakland Crime Stoppers offering an additional $10,000.
On the morning of Feb. 3, 2018, Scott was waiting at the bus stop at 62nd Street and Market Street in Oakland, heading to his grandmother's house.
The bus stop where Patrick Scott Jr. was shot and killed four years ago in Oakland.Alice Wertz/KCBS Radio
"I heard several gunshots," said his mother, Carol Ferguson Jones, at the press event Thursday morning with law enforcement, speaking from the same bus stop where her son was shot.
Jones ran outside to see her son struggling to keep walking after sustaining several gunshot wounds. As she caught up to him, neighbors and passersby told her that they’d called the police.
"And I was talking to him and I was saying, 'breathe baby, just breathe, mama's here, just breathe,'" she said.
But help was taking too long to get there. So Jones drove her son to nearby Children’s Hospital herself. Scott was intellectually disabled, so the hosptial was well-known to mother and son by then.
He later succumbed to his injuries at the hospital.
"We are asking the community to please come forward if you have any information on the senseless murder of Patrick Scott, Jr.," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Craig Fair in a press release issued Thursday. "We believe someone has knowledge that can help law enforcement solve this crime. Please help us find justice for Patrick and his family."
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Oakland Police Department at 510-238-3821 or the FBI San Francisco Division at 415-553-7400.
