Friday, December 10, 2010

Sad day for OTT


The holidays this year will be a bittersweet time for the Oaktown Teen Times. One of our contributors, Marquis Woolfolk, a student at Dewey Academy, was shot and killed near his East Oakland home on Nov. 21.

Co-managing editor Beatrice Motamedi worked with Marquis on a page one story for our October 2009 issue about his four-day stint on the Bay Bridge. Marquis was one of three Oakland students selected to work on the Bay Bridge retrofit, and he often talked about his experiences there and how much they meant to him.

Beatrice wrote a story for the Oakland Tribune about working with Marquis. You can read it here.