Witnesses Describe Shooting Outside Massive Funeral Service In Oak Park

OAK PARK (CBS13) — Gunshots shattered a peaceful ceremonial work astatine St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church successful Oak Park Friday afternoon.

Sacramento constabulary recovered 1 idiosyncratic changeable with non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators blocked disconnected the backmost parking lot, bagged grounds and looked for immoderate clues arsenic to what led up to specified unit extracurricular a funeral.

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Investigators described the chaotic country to dispatchers arsenic involving a “very ample uncooperative crowd.” Witnesses accidental they heard aggregate gunshots arsenic they headed to their cars.

“I was getting acceptable to permission but I’m going to beryllium honest, the Holy Spirit told maine to beryllium down,” said Claudia Jenkins.

Jenkins told CBS13 thing told her not to permission the religion and moments later, gunshots deed her car.

“This is simply a miracle. I should person probably…I would person been close successful the mediate of this if I had gotten up and near and walked to my car,” said Jenkins.

It happened during the ceremonial work for her household member, 43-year-old Curtis Clark, a assemblage activistic known to support kids disconnected the streets. Clark’s cousin, Sara Jenkins, says the unit had thing to bash with Clark.

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“No, not astatine all.  Because helium was bully to everyone,” said Sara. “I conscionable deliberation that was the devil being busy.  He saw a beauteous work going on.”

Johnny Lewis, a subordinate of Saint Paul Missionary Baptist Church since 1951, says he’s ne'er seen thing similar it.

“It tells maine that the young people, nowadays, bash not care. They don’t attraction wherever they are. If they’re going to bash something, they’re going to spell up and bash it,” said Lewis.

A religion that was hosting a ceremonial work abruptly recovered itself scrambling to support radical alive.

“The satellite needs to get backmost to loving each other.  That’s the 2nd astir important commandment successful the bible, emotion thy neighbour arsenic thy self,” said Claudia.

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Sacramento Police accidental it was an isolated incidental but there’s nary connection connected a fishy oregon motive.

Marlee Ginter