Oakland Police Arrest Suspect in Oct. 19 Robbery and Shooting After Foot Chase
Oakland police arrested a man they say was involved in an Oct. 19 robbery and shooting after he ran from officers and tossed an AR-style pistol.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Oakland City Hall tower against a deep blue sky. Photo: Eugene Zelenko / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Oakland police said on Monday that officers had arrested a man in connection with an Oct. 19 robbery and shooting.
What police say happened
On Oct. 20, officers patrolling near the 800 block of 71st Avenue saw a man they believed matched the suspect's description.
When officers approached, he ran and threw away a gun, which police described as an AR-style pistol.
He was arrested soon after near the 1300 block of 76th Avenue.
Police said they identified him as having been involved in the robbery and shooting, and he was arrested on multiple felony charges.
Police have not released his name. An arrest is not a conviction.
Sources
This article is an original summary based on the following reporting. We encourage readers to visit the original sources for full coverage.
The day's Bay Area housing, business and neighborhood news, plus the world headlines that matter, in one short email. Free, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
We use your email only to send the Brief. Details in our privacy policy.
Oakland police say a man attacked one child in a stroller and tried to pull another from a stroller shortly before 9 a.m. Monday near Grand Avenue and Harrison Street at Lake Merritt. An adult man was arrested; neither child needed medical care.
Planning files for Oakland's first Costco, on the former Army base in West Oakland, show a warehouse of about 166,800 square feet, roughly 400 jobs, 947 parking spaces and a fuel station. No opening date has been set.
David Sakurai, 64, was hanging posters when gunmen fired more than 30 rounds inside an East Oakland school complex in 2022. Police are asking anyone who recognizes the suspects to call.
Chief James Beere told the Oakland Chamber of Commerce that homicides and shootings are at their lowest since the 1960s. He credited Ceasefire and license plate readers.
Developer oWow now proposes a 20-story affordable housing tower and a conversion of the Saw Mill Furniture Building at 3403 Piedmont Ave., for 334 homes.
