The police commission still seems to be struggling to gain footing within Oakland’s complex bureaucratic tangles.

Oakland police are investigating a fatal shooting reported just before noon Friday in the 5400 block of Coliseum Way near the Oakland Coliseum Flea Market. Officers found a victim with gunshot wounds at the scene; the victim was taken to a hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

The committee voted unanimously to send the nominations to the City Council’s Jan. 20 meeting, according to the City of Oakland. The move puts a resolution in front of the full council that would formally confirm the mayor’s choices for the Police Commission.

Oakland police are investigating the shooting death of a person near the Oakland Coliseum that happened just before noon Friday.

Three separate shootings occurred in Oakland over the course of four days killed five people. Police have yet to disclose much about the deaths, although in one of the cases, a suspect has been arrested.

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and police officials attributed the decline to the success of local violence prevention and other factors.

Authorities are planning to use the purchase as evidence of preplanning, hoping to offset an anticipated mental health defense.

Seven months after two Oakland-area men vanished, investigators now believe they may have been killed as the result of a dispute connected to a car-theft operation in East Oakland. Justin Wayne Lee, 29,