OAKLAND — Oakland police have arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of fatally shooting a teenager at a bus stop just yards away from a police substation.
Officer Jeff Thomason says 18-year-old Ricardo DePalm of Oakland was arrested after 17-year-old Damon Williams was fatally shot around 5 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of the Eastmont Mall.
Thomason says the teenager was shot by one of three men during an argument at a bus stop. The men fled as Williams collapsed and died in the mall parking lot where the police department’s Eastmont substation is also located.
DePalm was arrested at his home on suspicion of murder after an officer spotted him running from the scene and a witness later identified him.
Police are still looking for the other two suspects.
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