By Jay Heater
CONTRA COSTA TIMES
A day after Cal tailback Marshawn Lynch was nearly shot at Oakland Tech High School, the university planned no precautions to keep Lynch from being the target of further violence. Cal associate athletics director Kevin Klintworth said that football coach Jeff Tedford had requested on Thursday that Lynch, who was at Oakland Tech to attend graduation ceremonies later in the day, not speak to the media about the incident. Klintworth, however, did get a statement from Lynch saying that he was riding in the back seat of a Dodge Intrepid that was fired upon by an unknown gunman. Lynch told Klintworth that the car was being driven by another Cal student who is not a football player. A man walking toward the car put his hand inside his jacket, a move that caused the driver to speed away. Lynch told Klintworth that the car was struck by three to five bullets, although no one inside the car was injured. Eventually, police stopped the car, questioned the three passengers and released them. No arrests were made. According to Lynch, his family was informed later that the gunman was seeking a similar style car and that it was a case of mistaken identity. Tedford was unavailable for comment Thursday. However, Klintworth said the coach is taking the shooting as a "wrong place at the wrong time" situation and therefore didn't consider any further action to be necessary. Oakland police said Thursday evening that there was no further information in the case.
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