No murder charge in First Friday killing OAKLAND

Collage at Ralph J. Bunche High School in Oakland of Kiante Campbell, killed after an art-gallery walk event in the city on Feb. 1, 2013. Collage at Ralph J. Bunche High School in Oakland of Kiante Campbell, killed after an art-gallery walk event in the city on Feb. 1, 2013. Photo: Henry K. Lee Photo: Henry K. Lee Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close No murder charge in First Friday killing 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

A 19-year-old man has been charged with assault for allegedly opening fire into a crowd leaving an arts-oriented street party in downtown Oakland - but not with killing a man who died in the gunfire.

Police had arrested Donald Parks Jr. on suspicion of murder in the slaying of high school senior Kiante Campbell, 18, of Oakland, but Alameda County prosecutors did not file murder charges against him Tuesday.

Instead, prosecutors filed six counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm, saying Parks fired shots Friday night that wounded two people and came close to hitting four others. He was also charged with carrying a concealed firearm and carrying a loaded firearm in a city.

Parks, who lives in Oakland, is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.

Prosecutors would not explain why they had not filed murder charges against Parks, who was listed as a friend on Campbell's Facebook page.

In a statement, District Attorney Nancy O'Malley said the charges filed "represent the crimes we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt based upon the evidence that is currently available."

The gunfire broke out at 20th Street and Telegraph Avenue about 10:50 p.m. Friday, less than an hour after the Oakland First Friday Art Festival had ended. A surveillance camera filmed Parks "in the act of shooting," police Officer Jason Andersen wrote in an affidavit filed in Alameda County Superior Court.

Authorities have not said what might have led to the shooting, which happened as thousands of people were leaving the art-gallery walk that takes place the first Friday of each month.