Two More Mass Shootings: Half Moon Bay, Oakland

[canyonwalker]

Monday afternoon as I was updating my blog on the mass shooting at a senior citizen dance club in Monterey Park, California, checking news reports that the death toll had increased to 11, I saw news of another mass shooting in California in the newsfeed. Police had arrested a gunman in connection with at least 7 deaths and one injury near Half Moon Bay, California.

My feelings on seeing another mass shooting tragedy so soon on the heels of the earlier one are summed up by this tweet from Gov. Gavin Newsom yesterday:

At the hospital meeting with victims of a mass shooting when I get pulled away to be briefed about another shooting. This time in Half Moon Bay.

Tragedy upon tragedy.

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) January 23, 2023

Gov. Newsom tweeted that at 5:35 PM on Monday. Less than an hour later yet another mass shooting occurred in California. Police estimate it occurred just after 6pm Monday in Oakland. It took authorities hours to piece together details— so it didn't hit really hit the news until early this morning— as the victims all fled the scene and went to different hospitals on their own. Authorities have so far identified 7 injured and 1 dead from this shooting.

Comments

[ckd]

Something's defaulting to UTC for the date stamp, perhaps? 1735 PST would be 0135 UTC the next day.

[canyonwalker]

When I check the source for my blog I see that the date "January 24, 2023" is literally written there. It would appear that's what Twitter gave me when I asked for an embed code for the tweet. On platforms that know how to excerpt tweets— LiveJournal does, Dreamwidth doesn't— that date gets replaced by the date of the tweet when it's loaded from Twitter. I'll just change it in my blog source as the date of the 23rd is correct for the quote and the 24th is wrong.