Artist fatally shot while working on anti-violence mural in Oakland

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-artist-fatally-shot-oakland-20150930-story.html A mural artist was fatally shot Tuesday while working on a community art piece under a freeway overpass in Oakland, police said. Police have not identified the artist, but friends say his name is Antonio Ramos, a painter who worked on a mural project led by the Attitudinal Healing Connection. Ramos and a group of artists with the project were working on a mural conceptualized by middle-school students in West Oakland who re-imagined themselves as superheroes to help solve issues in their communities. Oakland police said a gunman opened fire on Ramos about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 3500 block of West Street under the Interstate 580 overpass. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. The gunman walked away before police arrived at the scene...