Oakland’s ‘Hook’ Mitchell wounded, but survives double-homicide shooting

OAKLAND – Local sports figure Demetrius “Hook” Mitchell was wounded multiple times last month in a shooting where two others were killed in West Oakland.

The afternoon shooting on Sept. 7 left Sarah Forrest, 29, and Clarence Jones, 50, dead. Both were Berkeley residents.

The double homicide happened in the 600 block of 23rd Street, just west of Martin Luther King Jr. Way at a homeless encampment which has been the site of other homicides and nonfatal shootings over the past few years.