- David Cronenburg
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Fans shot outside Raiders stadium
• Police are looking for shooters, who they say mistook the victims for gang rivals before game
By Harry Harris and Kristin Bender
OAKLAND – Four football fans tailgating Saturday night outside a McAfee Coliseum parking lot in preparation for Sunday's sold-out Raiders game were shot by suspected gang members who mistook them for rivals, police said.
All the victims were taken to local hospitals and are expected to recover, police said. Police said at least a dozen rounds were fired at the victims, who were all hit with bullets several times.
The victims -- whose names were not released -- include two brothers, 23 and 17, both from Oakland, a 24-year-old Alamo man and a 23-year-old San Leandro man, police said.
The shooting happened at 10:25 p.m. Saturday in the 600 block of Hegenberger Road near Baldwin Street. That area is a back entrance into Coliseum parking lots, and Oakland Raiders fans are known to park vehicles there and party in the days leading up to a home game.
Officer Jason Andersen said the four victims are not thought to be gang members. They were part of a larger group involved in a tailgate party, he said.
"We were just kicking back," the 23-year-old Oakland man told police. "We always hang out (here) for Raiders games."
Police said there may have been an event at a nearby event hall that attracted members of an Oakland street gang. Phone calls to the hall seeking comment were not answered Sunday.
Witnesses told police that several vehicles drove into the area where the shooting took place and stopped. Several men got out of one of the vehicles, yelled out a "gang name," and at least one man, and possibly others, began shooting at the tailgaters, Andersen said.
The suspects fled in the vehicles, and witnesses did not get a description of the shooter or shooters or the vehicle.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering as much as $20,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the shooters. Anyone with information can call police at 510-238-3426 or Crime Stoppers at 510-238-6946.
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