Antioch’s mayor on Wednesday said a handful of criminals have turned one of the city’s neighborhoods into an East Bay epicenter of street shootings that need to be stopped.
Police in Antioch are scrambling to deal with a huge increase in gun violence, with fifteen shootings in just the month of September . Authorities think the incidents may be a series of retaliation shootings. Antioch Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe is demanding action.
City officials say this latest rash of gun violence began on Labor Day with the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Elijah Scales on Peppertree Way. That was September 2nd. Shootings then occurred for the next two days on the same block…