The fatal shooting of a youth that marked the 124th homicide in Oakland this year and the fatal police shooting of a suspect were just part of another weekend of violence that prompted the police chief this week to call on the City Council to discuss the matter.

“I need help from leaders of this city,” Chief LeRonne Armstrong said at a news conference Monday afternoon at police headquarters on Seventh Street.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.