Oakland community shocked after artist shot dead while painting peace mural

[dixiegrrrrl]

I am using the RT link because it has so many good pics of the murals and the people, which needs to be seen.

A young artist has been shot dead in a rough part of Oakland. He was working on a community project painting a motivational mural to inspire young people to dream big.

Fellow artists have described the shooting as random, saying Antonio Ramos, 27, had had an argument with a passerby who wasn’t part of the group working on the Mural Project. The argument quickly escalated, and the offender used his gun on Ramos and ran away.

“How do you do something positive and still get shot for it?” a childhood friend of Ramos told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Many took to Twitter to express their sorrow and a profound feeling of injustice.

Ramos died of multiple gunshot wounds and now the team he worked with is gathering funds to hold a funeral for him.

http://www.rt.com/usa/317411-oakland-artist-killed-ramos/

[villager]

1. Thank God the passer-by was armed!

Imagine if he was forced to only keep yelling!

[shenmue]

2. No