An elderly ice cream vendor was robbed on Monday for the third time in a week — and the eighth time in the past decade — leaving him unable to pay his own living expenses or send money back to Peru where his son lives with autism. KNTV reported that the latest armed robbery was …
A 19-year-old San Francisco man has been charged in the death of a beloved Oakland baker and activist who was critically injured in a purse snatching in a bank parking lot in February. Investigators say Ishmael Burch was the driver of a stolen vehicle that the purse snatcher jumped into after grabbing Jen Angel’s purse …
A popular Oakland baker has been declared dead after she was critically injured during a daylight purse snatching in a bank parking lot earlier this week. Jennifer Angel, owner of Angel Cakes bakery, was in the parking lot of a Wells Fargo bank less than a mile from her shop on Monday when a vehicle …
Six people were wounded Wednesday in a shooting that broke out near a campus that houses several schools in Oakland, California. All six people were adults, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said. Their connection to the schools is unknown, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Today's gun violence at Sojourner Truth school shocks the soul — our …
Two adults and a 6-year-old girl were wounded on Sunday afternoon when gunfire erupted during a Pop Warner football game in Oakland, California. Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong said Monday that the other victims were a woman in her 50s and a man his 30s. None of the victims had life-threatening injuries, according to KTVU. …
Oakland police in California are asking for help identifying a man seen in surveillance footage trying to kidnap a toddler and then assaulting the child’s mother. An “unknown good Samaritan” came to the aid of the mother, prompting the assailant to flee. The mother and the 2-year-old were at the transit bus platform at High …
A work crew earlier this month found the remains of a California woman who had been missing for nearly 18 years. Cynthia “Linda” Alonzo, 48, was last seen on November 24, 2004, as she got into a car with her boyfriend, Eric Mora, to drive from West Oakland to her mother’s house in San Francisco …
A former US Air Force military police sergeant with links to the extremist Boogaloo movement pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to a drive-by shooting that left one federal protective services officer dead and another wounded. Steven Carrillo was an active-duty staff sergeant at Travis Air Force Base on May 29, 2020, when he and …
Authorities have made two arrests in the shooting death of an armed security guard working with a California television news crew last month. Kevin Nishita was working with a KRON4 crew in Oakland on November 24 when he was shot during an attempted robbery. He died three days later, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Oakland Police …
An armed security guard protecting a California news crew died Saturday from injuries he suffered when he was shot during an attempted robbery earlier in the week. Kevin Nishita was on duty with a KRON4 crew in Oakland on Wednesday when an assailant attempted to steal camera equipment, KRON4 reported. Nishita was shot in the …
A toddler died Saturday after he was struck by a stray bullet when a car driven by his mother was struck by a stray bullet on Interstate 880 in Oakland. The California Highway Patrol said it received a call about the shooting shortly after 2 p.m., NBC Bay Area reported. The family told the station that …
Gunfire disrupted a joyous Juneteenth celebration at Oakland’s Lake Merritt Saturday evening, killing one person and wounding six others. Police said the official holiday celebration was taking place across the lake from the shooting, but hundreds of people were on hand at the 155-acre tidal lagoon just east of downtown Oakland, CBS San Francisco reported. …
