OAKLAND — A 46-year-old man was fatally shot early Wednesday outside his East Oakland home, the city’s first homicide of 2025, authorities said.
The man’s name has not yet been released.
The shooting happened about 3:13 a.m. New Year’s Day in the 2200 block of 24th Avenue.
Police responding to a report of a person down on the street found the man suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead there at 3:28 a.m.
A motive for the shooting is under investigation. No suspect information has been released.
The killing is the first homicide of 2025 investigated by police. In 2024, the city’s first homicide of the year also happened on Jan. 1.
On Tuesday, Oakland police investigated three homicides between just after 7 a.m. and 10:20 p.m. Those killings — two shootings and a stabbing — brought the final number of homicides in Oakland in 2024 to 86. In 2023, police investigated 126 homicides in the city.
Anyone with information about the Wednesday killing may call police at 510-238-3821 or 510-238-7950. Anyone with videos or photos related to the shooting can email them to cidvideo@oaklandca.gov.