Victim In One of Saturday's Shootings In Oakland Identified as 28

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/09/victim-in-one-of-saturdays-shootings-in-oakland-identified-as-28-year-old-artist-and-sf-dispensary-worker/The victim in one of several shootings that took place Saturday morning, in the aftermath of the First Fridays street festival in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood, has been identified as a 28-year-old who recently moved to Oakland from SF. The family of the victim has identified them as John "Mica" Esquibell — Esquibell's social media accounts indicate that they used they/them pronouns. Esquibell, 28, was an artist who was employed as general manager at the Stiizy cannabis dispensary in SoMa, and had recently moved across the Bay from SF's Tenderloin. As KTVU reports, Esquibell was with friends buying empanadas from a st