ANTIOCH — A man shot to death earlier this week has been identified as a Brentwood resident, authorities said.
Willie Richardson IV, 32, had a single gunshot wound and was down when police arrived to the 30 block of East 6th Street about 12:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Antioch police Lt. John Fortner said. Richardson died after being transported to a hospital.
The homicide was the 15th investigated by Antioch police in 2024. The shooting also was one of four over a two-day period that police investigated.
Police have not revealed many details about the latest homicide, saying only that they spoke to witnesses and gathered evidence. They were working to identify persons of interest.
The fatal shooting happened less than 12 hours before a shooting on the 1200 block of Sycamore Drive. Police found a gun and several bullet casings there but not a victim.
Those two shootings came after a shooting at 3:25 p.m. Monday in the 1000 block of Sycamore Drive injured a 27-year-old man. Police did not find any victims at that scene but later received word from a hospital that a man showed up there with more than one bullet wound. He was expected to survive.
Minutes before that, there was gunfire near Spanos Street and Mahogany Way. Two to three people in a vehicle shot at a 35-year-old woman and 25-year-old man, police said. Neither was injured.
Antioch police Lt. Joe Njoroge said officers have determined those two shootings were related.
The city has been struggling to deal with an explosion of gun violence since September, most of it in the neighborhood known as the Sycamore corridor. The area saw 11 shootings in September, including a homicide.
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