Teen boy shot dead a block from home
Demian Bulwa

Monday, July 14, 2008

Police are investigating the killing of a 15-year-old boy who was shot
multiple times Saturday night just a block from his family's home in a tough
East Oakland neighborhood.

The teenager was identified by his family as Derrick Mixon, who was a
student at the Castlemont Business and Information Technology School last
year.

Derrick was hit in his upper torso about 10:45 p.m. on the 1800 block of
96th Avenue, police said. He was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland,
where he died.

Police released no information about possible suspects or motives in the
shooting, which happened near a liquor store on a block where homes sit
behind black or silver chain-link fences.

One neighborhood resident said he heard about six gunshots.

Derrick's mother, Diane Mixon-Scott, said her son was smart, competitive,
respectful and active in his church. She said she didn't know why he was
shot.

Victim In Mission District Shooting Identified

POSTED: 2:14 pm PDT July 11, 2008
UPDATED: 12:16 pm PDT July 12, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO -- A man who was fatally shot in San Francisco's Mission
District in broad daylight Friday has been identified today as a 30-year-old
Rodeo resident, according to a medical examiner's office investigator.

Armando Estrada was shot at around 12:10 p.m. Friday at the intersection of
Mission and 20th streets, a busy commercial area notorious for gang
activity, according to police. Estrada was taken to San Francisco General
Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police.

Police spokesman Sgt. Neville Gittens said that investigators are
considering the possibility the crime was gang-related, as the area is known
as gang territory.

On Thursday evening at the same intersection, two people were stabbed and
another shot with a BB gun. All three injuries were non-life threatening,
and police have not positively linked that incident with today's shooting.

Friday afternoon, investigators were still at the scene, examining evidence
on a bloodstained sidewalk surrounded by police tape, outside a Latino
record shop.