Fatal SHOOTING in near UNUVERSITY OF BERKELEY UofC

A man was shot and killed near the popular Top Dog eatery on Durant Avenue and Bowditch Street, about a block from the University of California, Berkeley campus, late Tuesday, police said.


The name of the man in his late 20s was not immediately available from police, who said he is not a UC Berkeley student. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. His body lay under a white sheet in the Douglas Parking lot as a crowd of at least 200 people circled the crime scene.


Another man, who was also shot, was transported to Highland Hospital in Oakland. His condition was not immediately known. No one was in custody late Tuesday.


Berkeley police spokesman Sgt. Mary Kusmiss said the victim and the shooter had an argument before the shooting. The victim staggered to the multi-unit apartment building parking lot east of the Top Dog and collapsed, police said. Further details were not known.


Police cordoned off Durant, east of Bowditch, to Telegraph Avenue, as well as the block between Durant Avenue and Channing because detectives are collecting crime scene evidence in those areas. Police said friends and family were slowly arriving on the scene.


Tuesday's 4 p.m. shooting comes 10 days after popular UC Berkeley nuclear engineering student Christopher Wootton, 21, was stabbed to death in front Chi Omega sorority house in the 2400 block of Warring Street, just south of campus.

The suspect in that case, Andrew Hoeft-Edenfield, 20 of Berkeley, has been arrested and charged with his murder. Police said an alcohol fueled fight, which included about 20 other men, was what sparked the stabbing. Wootton was set to graduate this month and then begin graduate school at UC Berkeley in the fall.