Antioch's mayor on Wednesday said a handful of criminals have turned one of the city's neighborhoods into an East Bay epicenter of street shootings that need to be stopped.

A recent uptick in violence in Antioch has the mayor calling on outside agencies for help. In the past three weeks, 15 shootings have ended in two deaths.

"This string of violence has been unusual, but wanting to deal with these shootings has been a desire of the entire city," said Antioch Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe. Hernandez-Thorpe said multiple officers had been arrested or suspected by the police ...