By Megan Cassidy and Rachel Swan

Santos Gomez Lopez peered over her tall picket fence, taking in a grim but familiar scene. Police cars were parked haphazardly outside her house in East Oakland, where a triple shooting occurred hours earlier. A body was lying on the sun-baked asphalt, covered in yellow tarp.

Officers had secured a perimeter along the 1900 block of 84th Avenue, hanging caution tape to deter onlookers, who came anyway. Word spread quickly after one man died in a spray of bullets shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday. Another died of his wounds later in the hospital, while a third was injured.