Update: Police Detail Actions In Gunfire Incident Wednesday

(What follows is an update to the story Patch ran on Wednesday in which residents reported hearing gunfire and/or saw what they thought to be weapons' flashes. Police issued this account of their response to that incident.)

On Wednesday, January 18 at approximately 3:50 am, police dispatchers received more than 30 calls, both 911 and non-emergency, from residents who reported hearing gunfire.

The gunshots were also heard by officers all over the city.

Police could not determine the exact location from which the shots were fired, but said Friday that it appeared to be in the Washington/Thornton area.

In their initial attempt to pinpoint the location, officers searched the area from Williams Street to Thornton Street, and from San Leandro Boulevard to East 14th Street, based on having received the majority of calls in this area.

But no suspects or victims were located. Police did not receive any reports of victims arriving at hospitals. Nor has any property damage been observed or reported.

"We are encouraging the community to report any damage from possible gun shots that may have occurred," police department spokesman Lt. Jeff Tudor said Friday.

(Editor's note: The original Patch report filed on Wednesday the 18th follows.)

San Leandro Police responded to reports of gunshots being fired on the 2200 block of Cherry Street at 3:50 am Wednesday but were unable to find any suspects, victims or evidence.

Readers told Patch of being awakened by the shooting.

"There was some intense gunfire in the area around McKinley Elementary this morning," wrote one Patch regular. "Honestly I have never heard anything like it before, and I lived in East Oakland during college, where I went to sleep to the distant sound of gunfire all the time."

"If I heard it a lot of people did because we're half a mile away," wrote another reader who checked the police department's daily activity log to ascertain the time and place of the incident.