OAKLAND — Three men were fatally shot Saturday morning after a fight broke out inside an East Oakland store, authorities said.
Police said of the men killed, one was 19 years old, another was 22, and the third was 54. Their names have not yet been released.
The shooting happened just after 3 a.m. Saturday inside Sky Market in the 8400 block of International Boulevard. According to initial police reports, there were about a dozen customers inside the store when an argument started that turned physical and at least one person produced a gun and started shooting.
Two of the men died in the shop, police said. The 54-year-old man died later at a hospital. No store employees were injured.
No arrests have been announced and no suspect information has been released. The killings brought to five the number of homicides investigated by Oakland police this year.
At this juncture last year, Oakland police had investigated three homicides. The most recent triple homicide occurred in August 2022 when two men were shot dead in the 2800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and another man was killed when a car struck him near the scene.
Anyone with information may contact investigators at 510-238-3821 or 510-238-7950.