As police continue to search for multiple gunmen who shot six people at an Oakland school this week, families and community leaders are left picking up the pieces of the latest instance of gun violence in a wave of shootings that have rocked the city for over 21/2 years.

“I think that the school shooting is a sign that the pot is simmering and now boiling over,” said the Rev. Harry Williams, the executive director of Ground Game Ministries, which works to halt violence. He said gun violence has become more random and spread to community hubs that were once thought of as off-limits. “The codes that govern the streets for so many years have eroded.”

Gun violence around the country has been on a tear since the pandemic, but the problem is especially concentrated in parts of East Oakland, which long has contended with high rates of gang violence erupting into gunfire. Oakland’s Highland Hospital, a major regional trauma center, has seen 402 gunshot wound patients in 2022, an 81% increase in gunshot wounds over the same period in 2019, according to data released by the hospital.

Among the victims of Wednesday’s school shooting were two students — both of them at least 18 years old — a school counselor, a security guard and two carpenters working at the education complex. As of Friday morning, one of the victims remains in critical condition and another is in stable condition at Highland Hospital. All other victims have been discharged from the hospital.

Jason Arbuckle, a carpenter, had a bullet graze his head. On Friday, Arbuckle was back home after a split-second ordeal upended his life.

As the manhunt pushed past 48 hours Friday, police offered no new details about the three suspects — two shooters and a driver — who entered the front door of the King Estates education campus in Oakland’s Eastmont Hills and unleashed a barrage of at least 30 bullets. Law enforcement has attributed the shooting to a “group and gang conflict.”

“The individuals who are responsible for this are still out in our community armed and dangerous,” Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said during a Thursday news conference. He said surveillance video from the scene captured the shooters.

Police are offering an award of up to $30,000 for information leading to an arrest in the case.

The education complex where the shooting occurred remained closed Friday, with more than 600 Oakland students unable to attend classes.

While the manhunt continues, questions have arisen about potential warning signs and security precautions at the cluster of schools on the King Estates campus, including Rudsdale High School, Rudsdale Newcomer High and BayTech Charter School. About six weeks ago police responded to a stabbing during a “gun-related incident” at Rudsdale High School, police said.

John Sasaki, a school district spokesperson, would not comment on whether the front door to the complex was locked. He said district policy requires doors to be locked during the day and added that police are investigating the matter.

On Thursday, Armstrong said the assailants entered through the school’s front door without the use of any special tools or breaching equipment.

Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering a reward of up to $30,000 for information leading to the arrests of the people responsible for the mass shooting. Tipsters can call OPD’s homicide division at 510-238-3821, the felony assault unit at 510-238-3426 or the anonymous tip line at 510-238-7950. Crime Stoppers can be reached at 510-777-8572.