A 30-year-old man was shot and killed Wednesday night in East Oakland,a police spokeswoman said today.

Officers responding to reports of gunshots in the 600 block of El
Paseo Drive at about 11:40 p.m. found Germaine Latchison, of Oakland,
suffering from a gunshot wound, Officer Holly Joshi said.

Police had been told of a man possibly shot and down on the sidewalk.

Paramedics responded soon after the officers and tried to revive
Latchison, but he was pronounced dead at the scene, Joshi said.

No suspects had been identified as of this morning, and the motive is
unknown, she said.

Anyone with information about the killing is asked to call the Oakland
Police Department's homicide section at (510) 238-3821.