A 25-year-old Oakland man is getting out of jail this week after serving almost 18 months behind bars in connection with a 2024 Juneteenth shootout by Lake Merritt that left more than a dozen people injured.
After an unsanctioned Juneteenth gathering by Oakland’s Lake Merritt devolved into chaos and dozens of shots fired in 2024, there were many headlines calling this a mass shooting. 14 people sustained injuries, and many in the community were angry and saddened given that there had been another shooting on Juneeteenth three years earlier, which left one person dead.
In the days that followed, Oakland police and prosecutors only named one suspect, a then-23-year-old man named JaJuan Kelly, who was facing charges. But it became clear that what had occurred was a reckless shootout between multiple individuals, which left both the participants and bystanders injured. And two other suspects, Damijia McGee and Roosevelt Curry, were also identified and charged in the case…