Oakland police ID teen killed in shooting falsely reported as San Francisco homicide

OAKLAND — Authorities here have identified an 18-year-old woman who was shot to death on May 22 in a shooting that was erroneously reported to San Francisco police under suspicious circumstances.

Bre’Elle Vercher, also known as Bre’Elle Vercher Nichols, was shot and killed on the 3700 block of Manilla Avenue. Despite the shooting’s close proximity to the Kaiser Permanente hospital in Oakland, police say a man and woman drove Vercher over the Bay Bridge to a hospital in San Francisco, then...