UPDATE :
Four people were killed and several others were injured in a shooting late Thursday night at a Halloween house party in Orinda, officials said.
The killings took place shortly before 11 p.m. at 114 Lucille Way, in a forested neighborhood just southeast of Highway 24 and south of downtown Orinda. Reports of a shooting came in at 10: 50 p.m. and police officers and paramedics flooded the area while taping off a large crime scene around the house, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.
Three people were killed at the scene and one person late died at the hospital, said Jimmy Lee, a Sheriff’s Office spokesman. Injured people were helped from the property by friends or other guests, according to neighbors. The hosts of the party had rented out the house using Airbnb, according to the homeowner.
Michael Wang, 58, said a woman rented the home he purchased more than year ago. When booking the home, the woman wrote that she was hosting a family reunion for 12 people, he said. Instead, scores of people were at the home for a Halloween party.
Four people were taken to Walnut Creek Medical Center, Contra Costa County’s trauma center, said Ben Drew, a hospital spokesman. One person died shortly after arriving. One more person was listed in critical condition, one was in serious condition and one was treated and released.
No ages, genders or names of victims were immediately available.
An Instagram post circulated online advertised an “Airbnb Mansion Party,” but police did not immediately provide details.
Ben Breit, Airbnb’s head of trust and safety, issued a statement saying the party was “unauthorized by the host, as the listing’s House Rules specifically banned parties.” The home has since been removed from Airbnb’s website as the company investigates and provides “support” to the homeowner.
“We are horrified by this tragedy and are in close communication with Chief David Cook, of Orinda police, to offer our support with his investigation into who committed this senseless violence,” Breit said. “Additionally, we have taken action to ban the booking guest from our platform. Our thoughts are with the loved ones of the victims of this abhorrent act as well as the neighbors of the home.”
Chris Gade, who lives down street from Halloween shooting in
#Orinda, said he heard the loud party and saw chaos after shooting
He spent the rest of the night hunkering down with his wife as a flood of emergency vehicles raced into the narrow streets. “This type of thing is definitely jarring,” Gade said.
Gade said the Airbnb renters at the property, for the most part, have not posed problems. Neighbors were aware of Thursday’s party due to the noise, but Gade said he hadn’t seen an invitation on social media.
“It’s kind of frustrating and definitely terrifying in the first moments,” he said. “But we know the person who owns it and they’re not doing something disrespectful.”
He said “a couple of our neighbors” made noise complaints about the party, “and apparently there might have been somebody on the way, but we’re not sure about that.”
“None of the neighbors” were happy about the party’s noise level, Gade said, but no one would have expected a shooting to occur.
“Everybody in the neighborhood immediately locked their doors and started messaging each other to find out what’s going on, because this just doesn’t happen in Orinda,” he said.
A spokesman said the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office and the Orinda Police Department are investigating “four fatalities, several injuries. More details coming.”
Orinda, an affluent community about 15 miles east of San Francisco, contracts for police services with the Sheriff’s Office, which has not provided information on whether suspects have been identified or captured.
they been getting shot up as long as I can remember. I even said that shyt in passing yesterday smh
