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OAKLAND – The Oakland Police Department reported that homicide detectives were at the scene of a shooting that sent one victim to the morgue and another to the hospital in critical condition Thursday night. 

The homicide is the city's 69th of the year.  

Officers were called at about 9 p.m. to the area of 79th and Bancroft avenues, where they discovered the two shooting victims. 

A police spokesman said it appeared that that the victim who was fatally shot was a woman, and that the victim who was wounded was a man. 

A Highland General Hospital nursing supervisor said a male victim from the Bancroft Street shooting was in surgery in critical condition. 

No suspects have been identified, the police said.