Before dawn on August 12, 2025, the quiet of West Oakland broke with a string of ShotSpotter alerts on the 700 block of 21st Street. By the time officers converged on the area, Jermil Kevin Lamar Lewis, age 41 and male, had already been rushed by car toward a hospital. Despite efforts there, Jermil Kevin Lamar Lewis, age 41 and male, was pronounced dead later that morning, his name formally released the following week.
Detectives soon learned that the gunfire erupted just a block from wh
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