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.
Oakland Police deputy eminent James Beere issues against the 126 crosses past talking all over a memorial carrier to commemorate the lives misplaced to homicides in Oakland this 12 months at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Branch Information Staff) Oakland Police chaplain Father Jayson Landeza holds the go of Oakland Police officer Tuan Le all over a memorial carrier to commemorate the lives misplaced to homicides in Oakland this 12 months at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. Officer Le used to be killed two days in the past on Dec. twenty ninth. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Branch Information Staff) Alex Tom, of Oakland, stands together with his son Collin Tom, 9, past attending a memorial carrier to commemorate the lives misplaced to homicides in Oakland this 12 months at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Branch Information Staff) Oakland mayor Sheng Thao pauses past remembering Oakland Police officer Tuan Le all over a memorial carrier to commemorate the lives misplaced to homicides in Oakland this 12 months at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Branch Information Staff) A go bearing the identify Jennifer who used to be killed on Feb. ninth is on show within the rose farmland all over a memorial carrier to commemorate the lives misplaced to homicides in Oakland this 12 months at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Branch Information Staff) Oakland mayor Sheng Thao and Father Aidan McAleenan raise crosses into the church all over a memorial carrier to commemorate the lives misplaced to homicides in Oakland this 12 months at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Branch Information Staff) Oakland Fireplace Prominent Damon Covington greets Father Aidan McAleenan all over a memorial carrier to commemorate the lives misplaced to homicides in Oakland this 12 months at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Branch Information Staff) A Christmas nativity statue seems to appear indisposed on the picket crosses all over a memorial carrier to commemorate the lives misplaced to homicides in Oakland this 12 months at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Branch Information Staff) A lady lowers her head as audio system learn the names of 126 sufferers all over a memorial carrier to commemorate the lives misplaced to homicides in Oakland this 12 months at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2023. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Branch Information Staff)
