Antonio Ramos was shot last week while painting a mural in a freeway underpass. Oakland police released a photo of a person of interest.
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California investigators on Tuesday released a photo of a man of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of an Oakland artist who was gunned down while working on a mural on a freeway underpass.
Antonio Ramos, 27, was shot last week in Oakland and was pronounced dead at a local hospital, police said. His death was mourned by family, friends, and Oakland's artist community.
Oakland police stopped short of calling the man in the photo a suspect, only identifying him as a "person of interest" in Ramos' death.
Oakland Police Department
Ramos was working on a piece for the Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project. The mural asked West Oakland Middle School students to reimagine themselves as superheroes that solve problems in their communities.
Javier Rocabado took the students' ideas and designed the 4,000 square foot mural. Rocabado told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was on scaffolding above Ramos when he was shot. Ramos had asked the assailant what he was doing several times before the shooting.
"It was a random case of senseless violence," Rocabado told the newspaper.
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