After Tribune Tower shooting, Oakland restaurant owner seeks safer location

OAKLAND — In the aftermath of a shooting Friday night, Cleashaun Hill took to Instagram to show footage of the bullet holes, shattered plates and blood spatter inside his downtown restaurant, Pierre Pierre.

Hill opened the Black-owned, southern-style fine dining eatery on the ground floor of the Tribune Tower two years ago. His goal, he said, was to help change a perception that Oakland’s downtown was troubled.

But after Friday’s shooting, which injured a woman and a man, he’s considering...