Richardson Rickey Livingston was 20 and a resident of Oakland when he and his girlfriend, Alexis Randolph, were shot multiple times and killed on a residential street in East Oakland’s Sobrante Park neighborhood on January 16, 2015. The attack happened around noon; both victims were resuscitated at the scene but pronounced dead there. No arrests were made in the immediate aftermath.

The family’s account describes deep grief and frustration. Rickey’s father, Richard Livingston Jr., learned of the death from a relative and went to the county morgue to confirm it, and the family reported difficulties and a lack of timely communication from law enforcement. A report from Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic later documented disparities in Oakland’s homicide clearance rates, finding cases with Black victims cleared at much lower rates than cases with white victims, and described families’ experiences of neglect and discrimination.

Five years after the killings the double homicide remained unsolved and the family continued to seek answers. If anyone knew Rickey, Alexis, or saw activity in Sobrante Park around January 16, 2015, please share what can help this investigation.