OAKLAND — Medics rushed a man into surgery after he was stabbed at a fitness center near Lake Merritt early Monday, police said.
Police later arrested another man about 20 minutes after the stabbing, which happened around 10:25 a.m. The victim was at Fitness SF, 600 Grand Ave., when the attack took place, police said.
Authorities did not have any other information on his condition.
The arrest happened in the 2800 block of Lakeshore Avenue after a brief standoff, police said. Police did not name the suspect, but said he was in his 40s.
Investigators still were working to determine the motive behind the attack and whether the two men knew each other.
The fitness center remained opened while police investigated.
OAKLAND — Seven members of a family, including an elderly man rescued by a neighbor, were displaced after a two-alarm fire heavily damaged their Fruitvale district home Monday night, officials said.
No one was injured in the fire, which did at least $200,000 damage to the three-story house in the 2300 block of Fruitvale Avenue, officials said.
The fire started about 6:22 p.m. Monday on the third floor of the home. Battalion Fire Chief James Bowron said Tuesday investigators determined the fire resulted from an overloaded electrical outlet.
Bowron praised the efforts of a long time next-door neighbor, who he said went into the burning house before firefighters arrived on scene and picked up and carried outside the family’s “non-ambulatory” elderly grandfather. Neither one were injured, he said.
Firefighters had the fire under control at 6:45 p.m. and kept it confined to the third floor.
The third floor and roof sustained heavy fire damage and the second floor significant water damage, Bowron said.
The four adults and three children living at the house will not be able to return for some time and were being assisted by the Red Cross, officials said.
FREMONT — Three suspects in a credit union robbery Monday evening were arrested after their getaway vehicle was disabled on Interstate 880, authorities said.
The robbery happened about 5:31 p.m. Monday at the Provident Credit Union in the Fremont Hub shopping center.
Police dispatchers received a 911 call of robbery in progress and officers responded to the area.
Two men who who had robbed the credit union of cash were seen fleeing in a vehicle driven by a woman, police said. A police sergeant saw the vehicle going westbound on Mowry Avenue and began pursuing it.
The vehicle got onto northbound I-880 and the California Highway Patrol joined the pursuit, police said.
At one point, a CHP vehicle did a “pursuit intervention technique” (PIT) maneuver on the suspects’ vehicle, causing it to turn around and eventually stop near the Whipple Road exit in Hayward, police said.
One of the men tried to flee on foot but was quickly captured. The other two suspects remained in the vehicle and were arrested.
Police said evidence of the robbery was located on the man who tried to run away and other evidence of the robbery was found in the vehicle.
The three suspects were taken to a hospital for a precautionary medical evaluation before being booked at Santa Rita Jail, police said. Their names have not been released. A motorist whose vehicle was struck on the freeway by the suspects’ vehicle complained of pain and was also taken to a hospital for evaluation.
No officers were injured. Both the robbery and collisions remain under investigation.
OAKLAND — A 30-year-old man was found shot to death Tuesday night in the Sobrante Park area of East Oakland, authorities said.
Police have not released the man’s name and were trying to determine where he lived.
The man was found dead about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 300 block of Bergedo Drive, a residential street not far from the San Leandro border.
Homicide investigators have not determined a motive yet for the killing and have not made any arrests.
The killing is the 63rd homicide investigated by Oakland police this year. Last year at this time police had investigated 59 homicides.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $10,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the killer. Anyone with information may call police at 510-238-3821 or 510-238-7950 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.
OAKLAND — A man died after he was hit by a shuttle bus Wednesday morning outside the main Oakland library, authorities said.
The elderly man was struck by the bus at the intersection of 14th and Madison streets just before 8 a.m., police said. He was taken to the hospital, but later died from his injuries.
Streets were blocked off Wednesday morning as police investigated and interviewed several witnesses. A pair of shoes could be seen underneath the bus.
The location of the accident is just around the corner from the Alameda County administration building and the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse.
It was not immediately known what company the bus was associated with. Besides the driver, there were two others on board the bus but they were not injured in the crash. The driver was cooperating with investigators.
Anyone who may have witnessed the collision is asked to call Oakland police traffic investigators at (510) 777-8570.
BERKELEY — A youthful looking suspect is being sought by police who say he has approached and initiated inappropriate sexual-related conversations with at least four boys ages 5 to 9 since May at Codornices Park.
The most recent incident happened within the last week at the park, which is at 1201 Euclid Avenue and includes the Berkeley Rose Garden.
The majority of the encounters have occurred during after school hours, police said.
Police did not say what caused the youth to break off the encounters.
The suspect is described as white, 12 to 18 years of age, between 5 feet 6 and 5 feet 10 with a thin build, blonde/brown hair with braces on his teeth. The person has also been seen on a blue or green bike wearing a light-colored bicycle helmet.
Anyone with information about the person or his activities is asked to call the police department Youth Services Division at 510-981-5715.
In a release Wednesday, police encouraged parents and guardians visiting the park with a child to speak to the child about the dangers of talking to strangers, maintain supervision of the child throughout the park and immediately report any suspicious activity.
OAKLAND — An 80-year-old man who died Wednesday after he was hit by an Alameda County contracted shuttle bus has been identified by the coroner’s office as Yun Yuen Tsui, of Oakland, authorities said.
Tsui was hit by the bus about 7:53 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of 14th and Madison streets outside the main Oakland library.
Police said Tsui was walking westbound on 14th Street crossing Madison Street in a marked crosswalk when he was hit by the bus which was turning southbound onto Madison from 14th Street. He ended up underneath the bus and later died at a hospital.
Officials said the shuttle bus is contracted by Alameda County to transport employees to various locations. Besides the driver, two other people were on board the bus but none of them were injured. The driver remained on the scene and assisted in the investigation, police said.
Police said it does not appear drugs or alcohol were factors in what happened.
Richard Valle, president of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement the county “is deeply saddened by the loss of life in an accident involving a vehicle owned and operated by a county contractor. We extend our heartfelt condolences to the decedent’s family.”
The death remains under investigation by police. Anyone with information is asked to call police traffic investigators at 510-777-8570.
SAN BRUNO — An 18-year-old Oakland man suspected of using a gun to steal a car that was advertised for sale on different internet platforms, has been arrested and charged with three felonies, including carjacking, authorities said Friday.
A female accomplice is still being sought.
Besides the carjacking count, the suspect, Isaiah Ireland Jr., who was arrested Wednesday in Oakland, has also been charged with conspiracy to commit a crime and assault with a firearm. He is being held in lieu of $300,000 bail at the San Mateo County Jail.
San Bruno police said the theft of the BMW happened about 6 p.m. Tuesday. A resident was attempting to sell the car online and a man, who turned out to be Ireland, requested to see the vehicle. The victim did not know Ireland before the two met in the 1100 block of Cherry Avenue, police said.
Ireland arrived with a female and after looking at the BMW for a short time, the female distracted the owner as Ireland got into the driver’s seat with the keys, police said. When the owner tried to intervene, police said Ireland pulled a pistol and pointed it at him before he and the female fled in the BMW.
San Bruno police entered information about the BMW into a national database for stolen vehicles. About 6 p.m. Wednesday the car was spotted by an Oakland Housing Authority employee on 65th Avenue in East Oakland who called OHA police, Lt. Ryan Johansen said.
When OHA police responded, Ireland was inside the car with a female passenger. Ireland ran from the vehicle but was quickly arrested and was later identified by the carjacking victim as the suspect, police said. The female who was in the car with Ireland was not the same one involved in the carjacking, police said. The female being sought is described as black, about 5 feet 6 and 130 pounds with short braided hair close to her scalp and tattoos on both arms.
Anyone with information about the carjacking or the female being sought is asked to call San Bruno police at 650-616-7100 or by email at sbpdtipline@sanbruno.ca.gov. Information can be left anonymously.
San Bruno police said they encourage those who buy and sell items over the internet to choose a safe and public place to meet unknown people. There is an “Internet Purchase Exchange Location” directly outside the police department on Huntington Avenue offering 24-hour live video recording for public use.
OAKLAND — One man was killed and another wounded early Saturday in East Oakland when they were hit by gunfire while driving separate vehicles on the same street, police said.
The man killed was a 55-year-old Oakland resident whose name has not been released.
The other victim, a 29-year-old Oakland man, was in stable condition, authorities said. His name was not released
Police said they do not believe the two men knew each other.
Both were driving separate vehicles in the 2100 block of International Boulevard about 1:02 a.m. Saturday when they were hit by gunfire that appeared to have been fired by someone from the street, police said. Neither man was from the area, authorities said.
The SUV that the 55-year-old man was driving crashed in the 2000 block of International and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The 29-year-old man was able to drive himself to a hospital.
Police don’t have a motive yet for the shooting and are trying to determine if the men were the intended targets. No arrests have been made.
The fatal shooting is the 64th homicide investigated by Oakland police this year. Last year at this time police had investigated 59 homicides in the city.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $15,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the shooter. Anyone with information may call police at 510-238-3821 or 510-238-7950 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.
OAKLAND — A 44-year-old woman shot multiple times Friday night in East Oakland was in stable condition Saturday, authorities said.
The shooting happened about 11:30 p.m. Friday in the 1000 block of 98th Avenue, apparently at a food stand, authorities said.
Initial reports were that the woman was shot by a man she got into a dispute with.
The suspect fled before police arrived, and the woman got a ride to a hospital from a relative.
No other details about the shooting were immediately released.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $5,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the shooter. Anyone with information may call police at 510-238-3426 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.
OAKLAND — A man rescued by firefighters Sunday night from his burning apartment in East Oakland was in critical condition Monday with significant burns to almost half his body, authorities said.
The fire started about 8:43 p.m. Sunday in the 1900 block of East 30th Street inside a house that had been converted into a three-plex, officials said.
When firefighters arrived on scene flames and smoke were coming out of the front room of one of the apartments and a resident told them the man who lived in the unit was still inside, Battalion Fire Chief James Bowron said.
Firefighters entered the burning apartment and found the man on the floor of his bedroom, having apparently rolled off the bed, Bowron said.
The man was brought outside and firefighters began emergency first aid on him until he could be taken by ambulance to Highland Hospital, a couple blocks away. Officials said the man suffered second and third-degree burns to at least 40 percent of his body and was in critical condition.
The fire was eventually brought under control at 9:08 p.m. by 20 firefighters. No firefighters were injured.
Bowron said the cause of the fire is under investigation. The street the building is on was not impacted by the mandatory power outages.
Bowron estimated damage to be at least $30,000 and it was confined to the apartment the injured man lived in. Residents of the other two apartment were allowed to return.
SONOMA — Amidst all the sadness of the Kincade Fire ravaging Sonoma County, there was some good news for someone Sunday night as they won the top Fantasy 5 California lotto game jackpot of $61,860 at a Lucky Store, officials said Monday.
The person was the only one in the state to pick all five winning numbers, which were 3, 6, 23, 31 and 32, at the store, which is at 19181 Sonoma Way in the Maxwell Village Shopping Center.
“Wow,” was the response of a store employee during a telephone conversation Monday morning, who asked that their name not be used.
“We weren’t aware of this,” the employee said. “That’s pretty good news for someone.”
The store is not in an evacuation area and still has its power on, which meant the lotto machine was working and able to accept tickets.
The winner has 180 days from Sunday to collect their winnings.
Fantasy 5 is played every night of the week. Monday’s top prize was to be at least $69,000.
HAYWARD — A man was arrested Sunday night by BART police at the Hayward BART Station on suspicion of threatening two passengers on a train with a knife, officials said Monday.
Tamire Edwards, 40, of Oakland, was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a deadly weapon, making threats and resisting arrest. He was taken to Santa Rita Jail where he was being held in lieu of $90,000 bail.
BART officials said the incident happened about 11:22 p.m. Sunday on a Warm Springs bound train. Edwards is suspected of using a knife to threaten a male passenger who used his bicycle to shield himself from Edwards, officials said..
Another passenger who intervened was also threatened, officials said. No injuries were reported.
BART police confronted Edwards at the Hayward Station when the train stopped there. He initially resisted but was eventually placed under arrest. He refused to give a statement, officials said.
Officials did not say what may have led to the original confrontation.
OAKLAND — Two men were shot Monday night as they were driving in an SUV in East Oakland, police said.
A third person in the vehicle was not hurt.
Both men, one 38 and the other 29, were in stable condition. They are both Oakland residents, authorities said.
The shooting happened about 7:45 p.m. Monday in the area of 64th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard.
The 38-year-old man was driving the SUV when gunfire was heard and both he and the other man realized they had been shot, police said.
They were able to drive to a hospital for treatment.
The men told police they did not see who shot at them and did not know why anyone would want to attack them.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $10,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the shooter. Anyone with information about the shooting may call police at 510-238-3426 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.
FREMONT — Two ex-convicts and a woman suspected of driving the stolen getaway car, have been identified as the three people arrested and charged in the Oct. 21 robbery of the Provident Credit Union, according to authorities and court records.
Bryan Colston, 30, of Oakland, was arrested by Fremont on suspicion of bank robbery.
Bryan Colston 30, of Oakland, who besides robbery, has three other felony convictions, Damario Crawford, 32, of Oakland and Larishia Kilgore, 27, of El Cerrito are the three people charged in the robbery, which happened about 5:31 p.m. Oct. 21 at the credit union in the Fremont Hub Shopping Center, authorities said.
Colston has been charged with second-degree robbery and resisting arrest. Police said he had a pending felon in possession of a firearm case in Pleasant Hill at the time of the robbery.
Larisha Kilgore, 27, of El Cerrito, was arrested by Fremont on suspicion of bank robbery.
Crawford, who has a 2013 felony assault with a firearm conviction that he went to prison for, has been charged with second degree robbery. Kilgore, who authorities said drove the getaway car, a stolen 1996 Honda Accord, was charged with second-degree robbery, evading an officer with willful disregard for public safety and unlawful driving or taking of a vehicle.
Crawford later admitted his involvement in the robbery, telling police he needed money, according to court documents. Colston and Kilgore declined to talk to police.
Colston is being held in lieu of $130,000 bail and Crawford in lieu of $125,000 bail. Kilgore is being held in lieu of $280,000 bail. All three have pleaded not guilty and are due in court Nov. 14 for a pre-trial hearing.
According to court documents, Colston and Crawford entered the credit union together and as Crawford stood look-out, Colston approached a teller and presented a note demanding money. After being told the teller had no cash he went to another teller and took $500 in cash, according to court records.
Damario Crawford, 32, of Oakland, was arrested on suspicion of bank robbery.
As this was happening Fremont police received alarm activations and a 911 call from the business with the caller giving descriptions of the suspects and what clothes they were wearing. Police were also told the men had fled in a car driven by another person.
The Honda was spotted on Mowry Avenue near Interstate 880 by Fremont police Sgt. Joshua Ehling who was driving a marked police car. He pursued it onto the freeway and was joined by California Highway Patrol officers. During the pursuit the sergeant did a “pursuit intervention technique” (PIT) on the suspects’ car causing it to turn around and collide with the sergeant’s car before it continued to drive northbound on the freeway, according to court documents.
The pursuit ended when the suspects’ car collided with a civilian vehicle and crashed into the center divider south of Whipple Road. Colston ran from the vehicle but was quickly arrested on the freeway after fighting with officers. Crawford and Kilgore remained in the vehicle and were arrested.
According to court documents the stolen money was found in Colston’s pocket. The demand note was found in the car.
The car the suspects were in turned out to have been stolen Oct. 16 in Hayward, court documents say. Kilgore was on probation for vehicle theft and had an arrest warrant for possession of a stolen vehicle, authorities said.
Besides a 2013 robbery conviction that he was put on probation for, Colston also has a 2014 possession of a firearm by a felon and a 2016 possession of a controlled substance with a firearm convictions that he received prison terms for. He also has a 2008 conviction for carrying a loaded unregistered firearm that he was placed on probation for.
A shooting Friday morning near the Bay Bridge Toll Plaza shut down the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80, authorities said.
No one was reported injured in the shooting, which was witnessed by a California Highway Patrol officer who was on a vehicle stop in the westbound lanes, authorities said.
The shooting happened about 6:45 a.m. in the eastbound lanes near where the bridge declines, officials said.
CHP Officer Justin Hagler said a CHP officer was on a car stop in the westbound lanes when the officer heard gunfire and then saw a man shooting from a silver SUV at another vehicle in the eastbound lanes.
Both vehicles kept going and as of late morning, no gunshot victims associated with the vehicle being shot at had showed up at any hospitals, authorities said.
It was later learned that another vehicle in the eastbound lanes was hit by the gunfire but it was apparently not an intended target, CHP Officer Mark Andrews said. No one in that vehicle was injured.
All six eastbound lanes were briefly closed but as of 8:15 a.m. three lanes had been reopened while CHP officers continued to investigate and look for any evidence. All lanes were reopened by 9 a.m. even though there were still long delays.
The shutdown had caused massive backups for the eastbound commute.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the CHP’s San Francisco office at 415-557-1094.
OAKLAND — Up to $5,000 in reward money is being offered for information leading to the arrests of two suspects in the kidnapping and robbery of a man outside his Upper Rockridge home Wednesday night who was driven to an ATM and forced to withdraw money, police said Friday.
The man, who is in his 30s, was sitting in his car about 11:31 p.m. Wednesday that was parked near his home in the 5500 block of Golden Gate Avenue when he was approached by two males, both of whom were wearing masks and one who was armed with a gun, police said.
The home is in a usually quiet residential neighborhood not far from Lake Temescal.
Police said the suspects demanded money from the man and ultimately restrained him from moving, speaking and seeing. No other details were released about what was used to restrain him.
The victim was driven to a nearby ATM and ordered to withdraw money. Police did not say how much was taken from him.
The suspects then drove the man to an area of Berkeley where he was left inside his vehicle, police said.
The suspects then fled the area.
One of the suspects is described as black, in his late teens to early 20s, about 6 feet 3 and 165 pounds wearing dark clothing.
The reward money is being offered by police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland. Anyone with information about the suspects may call robbery investigators at 510-238-33326 or a tip line at 510-637-0298 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.
OAKLAND — The driver of an All-Terrain Vehicle was killed Saturday night in a collision with a car in East Oakland, authorities said.
The name of the man killed, a 32-year-old Oakland resident, was not released.
The collision happened about 7:13 p.m. Saturday in the 8000 block of Rudsdale Street.
Police said that the ATV was traveling eastbound on Rudsdale when it collided with a Toyota Camry that was going westbound and attempting to make a southbound turn into a driveway.
The ATV driver was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Authorities said the driver of the Toyota, a 36-year-old Oakland resident, was not hurt. Their name was not released.
Police said alcohol and or drugs do not appear to be a factor in the collision.
The collision remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call police traffic investigators at 510-777-8570.
MORAGA — Four suspects were arrested Sunday night in a residential armed robbery where more than 10 pounds of marijuana and a wallet were taken, police said Monday.
Police Chief Jon King said police have determined one of the suspects had bought a large quantity of marijuana at the house Saturday which was why the home was targeted.
The robbery happened about 9:26 p.m. Sunday at the home in the 100 block of Donald Drive where four adults and a juvenile were inside. It was not known if all of them lived at the home.
Police received a call from the home that three to four suspects wearing hooded sweatshirts and armed with baseball bats and a gun entered the home and taken marijuana and a wallet. The suspects had entered the home through an unlocked door, King said
Officers responding to the call saw a vehicle turning onto Moraga Road from Donald Drive and stopped the vehicle on Moraga Road near Moraga Way and detained the four suspects without incident.
King said all four were later identified by the victims as being involved in the robbery. A baseball bat and a loaded gun, that turned out to have been stolen in Las Vegas, were found in the vehicle as was the stolen marijuana and wallet.
The suspects were identified as Emarieay Prescott, 21, Domenico Delgado Caramagno, 20, and Thomas Lloyd III 20, all of Oakland and Azrael Vargas, 19, of Berkeley. Police did not say which one made the previous weed purchase.
They were arrested on suspicion of robbery, burglary, conspiracy, and possession of a firearm. Prescott was also booked for violating probation which he was placed on after being convicted of being an accessory to a robbery in Alameda County. They were all booked at the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call Moraga police at 925-888-7056 or 925-888-7055.
OAKLAND — The 32-year-old driver of an all-terrain vehicle killed Saturday night in a collision with a car in East Oakland was identified by the coroner’s office Tuesday as Brandon Jackson.
Jackson, of Oakland, died from injuries suffered about 7:13 p.m. Saturday in the 8000 block of Rudsdale Street.
Police said the the ATV was going eastbound on Rudsdale when it collided with a Toyota Camry going westbound that was trying to make a southbound turn into a driveway.
The 36-year-old car driver, an Oakland resident, was not injured and remained at the scene.
Police are continuing to investigate the death but have said alcohol and drugs do not appear to be factors in the collision.
Police are asking that anyone with information about the collision to call traffic investigators at 510-777-8570.
