2024 Berkeley gunfire map update: BPD arrests 2 in December shooting

The Berkeley and University of California police departments and California Highway Patrol investigated at least 30 shooting incidents that occurred within Berkeley in 2024, with several investigations lasting well into 2025. Three of the shootings had left people dead; seven other incidents left people wounded.

Police announced two arrests from a December 2024 shooting on Jan. 28, 2025.

Seven of the shootings, none of which left anyone with known injuries, took place in the last two weeks of the year, and four of those were on Dec. 19 and 20 alone. “We are continuing to conduct investigations into these events and are speaking with our regional partners to determine if they are experiencing an upticks in incidents as well,” Berkeley police spokesperson Officer Byron White said in a Dec. 31 email, before the final shooting of the year. As of that point, he said, police did not believe the recent incidents were related to each other.

Dec. 31: City police investigated gunshots near Addison Street between Second and Fourth streets, arresting a suspect the next day. More details were not immediately available. Dec. 26: City police went to 10th Street and Hearst Avenue after a report of gunfire at 6:08 p.m., finding evidence of gunshots on 10th. Dec. 24: City police went to the 2800 block of Regent Street at 11:32 p.m. to investigate a report of gunfire, finding evidence of gunfire in a roadway and witnesses who said the shots may have come from a car. Dec. 20: Police found bullet holes in a home in the 2800 block of Acton Street after a report of gunfire at 11:27 p.m. Witnesses told police they had seen a suspect shooting at the home. Dec. 20: Police went to Tunnel and Roble roads shortly before 7 a.m. to investigate a loud report, but found no victims or evidence. Just over a half-hour later a victim called police to say their car had been shot at and damaged. Dec. 19: Callers began reporting gunshots around 9:50 a.m. Police found evidence of gunfire on the west side of Adeline Street, just below Fairview Street. Witnesses reported seeing a man with a face covering and dark clothing fleeing on foot after the shooting. Police arrested one suspect, a 49-year-old Emeryville man, on Jan. 16, and the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office charged him with several gun- and drug-related felonies, including possession of an assault weapon and shooting at an occupied vehicle, according to police and court records. BPD arrested a second suspect, a 25-year-old Lathrop man, on Jan. 27, on suspicion of a number of gun crimes. Dec. 19: Police went to the 3100 block of Ellis Street just minutes after midnight to investigate a loud report. They found nothing then but found physical evidence of gunfire later in the day. Oct. 26: Around 12:15 a.m. several callers and UC Berkeley’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system reported gunshots near the 2500 block of Haste Street, 2200 block of Bancroft Way, 2300 block of Fulton Street and 2200 block of University Avenue. One caller reported hearing gunshots in the 1100 block of Sutter Street. Police arrested a 45-year-old San Francisco man Nov. 7 in connection with the incident. Oct. 24: UC Berkeley sent a series of “WarnMe” messages advising of gunshots near Berkeley Way and Henry Street. City police later confirmed one person had suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, and later still that they had arrested that person. Oct. 1: Police investigated a report of gunfire around 11:12 a.m. while two men fought in the area of Sacramento and Prince streets, police said. There were no reported injuries and the two men were gone when police arrived. Aug. 25: One person was fatally shot at the Ursula Sherman Village shelter, also called Harrison House, the same location of the city’s first shooting of 2024. The victim in the previous shooting survived. Aug. 16: Police went to investigate a report of gunfire in the 3200 block of Adeline Street to find a gunshot victim who died at the scene. Aug. 8: University and city police spent hours searching UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr and Hillside campuses after a pair of gunshots was reported around 7:40 a.m. Aug. 3: Police said an argument outside a room at the Golden Bear Motel in Northwest Berkeley escalated to the point where one man hit another with a metal bar and the second waved a gun at the first, at some point firing a round into a nearby wall. Both men were arrested, one hospitalized with injuries to his head and hand, though not from gunshots. July 3: BPD officers investigating a report of a shooting in the 2900 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way on July 3 found Matthew Lamont Gullette dead of a gunshot wound. BPD arrested 57-year-old Steve Addison of Oakland, the man they believed to have shot Gullette, on July 31. June 9: BPD went to Telegraph and Durant avenues around 1:50 a.m. to investigate reports of gunfire and “a group of 25 people fighting in the street,” they said. Officers arrested a suspect on who they said tried to flee on suspicion of several firearm-related felonies, and recovered a handgun that had been thrown away into some bushes by a UC Berkeley dormitory building at Durant Avenue and Dana Street. May 26: BPD received a report May 27 that there were bullet holes in a building in the 1200 block of Blake Street; the day before, at 2:51 a.m., they had gotten a report of gunfire from a caller nearby, they said.. April 11: After investigating a report of a man with a gun in the 900 block of Channing Way, city police said they found evidence the man had fired a round into a nearby home. Nobody was reported injured. April 7: An uninvited guest, after being escorted out of an event in the 2900 block of Stanton Street around 9:42 a.m., returned with a gun and shot through the windshield of a nearby, unoccupied car, city police said. April 5: 911 callers reported that a person in one car was shot by someone in another car around 4:49 p.m. on the Ashby Avenue on-ramp to Interstate 80, according to CHP. The victim was taken to a hospital for treatment. March 31: Shortly after 3 a.m., “at least one suspect fired several rounds at a Berkeley resident after the resident interrupted an in-progress theft,” then fled in a car, according to an email alert from university police, who said city police were investigating. More details were not immediately available. March 26: Police said a juvenile victim was shot once in the leg near the 2200 block of Bonar Street. March 23: Police arrested a Richmond man on suspicion of several gun crimes after he told them he had shot himself in the leg while working at a West Berkeley car wash. March 21: Police found evidence of gunfire near Fairview and Harper streets, and a man with a gunshot wound checked himself into a hospital the same day. March 7: Police said they found evidence of gunfire at the scene of a catalytic converter theft. March 5: Police investigated a shooting after what they described as “a road rage incident after an argument between two drivers,” with one driver shooting at the other’s car, “causing a vehicle collision.” No injuries were reported at the scene, and no arrests as of the afternoon of March 5. Feb. 9: Someone shot several times into the air after an “altercation” at Lower Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus, according to university officials. There were no injuries. Jan. 29: Police investigated reports of gunfire recovered shell casings near the 2200 block of Bonar Street, one vehicle with a bullet hole at the scene and another with a bullet hole driving away, they said. The shooter, or shooters, were not believed to be at the scene when police arrived. Jan. 16: Police reported non-fatal injuries to a person near University Avenue and Fourth Street. More information was not immediately available. Jan. 7: A man was shot shortly before 6 a.m. near the Ursula Sherman Village shelter, also called Harrison House, on Harrison Street in Northwest Berkeley. Police have arrested one person and were seeking a second.

Police also received a report of several gunshots near the 1000 block of Channing Way on March 4 but investigating officers found no victims, suspects or physical evidence of a shooting, they said. A witness told police someone had been shot at.

In the 2024 Berkeley gunfire map, as with previous years, fatal shootings will be marked in red. Shootings in which victims are injured but survive are marked in orange. Shootings with no injuries are marked in yellow.

In 2023, Berkeley police and the California Highway Patrol investigated 35 shooting incidents in Berkeley, with eight people injured and one suspect fatally shot by city police.

City police have previously told Berkeleyside that they consider a gunfire call to be confirmed if officers find evidence such as bullet casings, property damage or a victim at the scene.

University police and Oakland have ShotSpotter gunfire detection systems that can also help investigators confirm reports of gunfire.

City police ask anyone with information on any shooting incident to contact their Homicide Detail at Homicide Detail at 510-981-5741.

Editors’ note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed the injuries in the Aug. 3 incident to gunfire.