Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee named the Oakland Police Department’s second-in-command to serve as the department’s interim chief when Floyd Mitchell steps down next month.

Oakland community members and leaders gathered in the wake of a pair of shootings at two city schools to condemn the deadly violence.

On Saturday, at community events in West Oakland, residents spoke out about how the violence was impacting a city that, at times, has become desensitized to tragedy.

Three days after a 15-year-old boy was shot at Skyline High School in Oakland, 145 students from nine Oakland Unified School District middle schools safely competed in the Oakland Athletic League

Thursday's incident came a day after a student was shot at Oakland's Skyline High School. The student is in stable condition. Police say they arrested two juveniles and recovered two firearms. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said she was “heartbroken” by “the second shooting on an Oakland campus in one week.”

Attempted murder charges have been filed against two boys, ages 15 and 16, in the shooting of a classmate on Wednesday.

Mayor Barbara Lee announced Friday that long-time Oakland police veteran James Beere will take over the department as interim chief of police in the wake of Chief Floyd