OAKLAND — Amidst a sea of white crosses, a memorial carrier used to be held at St. Columba Catholic Church on Sunday to commemorate the 126 lives misplaced to homicides within the town this 12 months.
The church’s venture, as mentioned on their web page, is to show crosses on their entrance garden as a supply of sympathy for the households of Oakland murder sufferers and to attract family consideration to the problem of violence in our streets and the desire for backup assets to deal with the illness.
Oakland Police chaplain Father Jayson Landeza carried a go for Oakland Police officer Tuan Le, who used to be killed on responsibility on Dec. twenty ninth past responding to a hashish dispensary theft alike the Embarcadero. Mayor Sheng Thao and others spoke all over the rite.
For the terminating fourteen years, St. Columba’s has honored Oakland’s murder sufferers by way of hanging a go with the individual’s identify within the entrance farmland of the church.
The killing of officer Le used to be the 126th murder investigated by way of Oakland police this 12 months. Terminating 12 months at this date, police had investigated 119 homicides within the town.