shooting<\/a> occurred just before noon Jan. 9 in the 5400 block of Coliseum Way.<\/p>\nRodriguez was found fatally shot in the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum Swap Meet, one of the Bay Area\u2019s busiest flea markets, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Dispute over fake IDs<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
Investigators said Rodriguez was shot during a dispute related to the sale of fake IDs.<\/p>\n
At the time of the shooting, vendors were selling goods to crowds of shoppers.<\/p>\n
“He was inside the parking lot of the flea market here,” said Al Perales, who works at a nearby tire shop. “Then obviously everyone started to scatter.”<\/p>\n
Crime scene<\/p>\n
Local perspective<\/p>\n
Aerial footage showed part of the parking lot cordoned off with yellow police tape as officers surrounded a parked Tesla Cybertruck.<\/p>\n
The swap meet is open seven days a week and draws vendors selling a wide range of merchandise. Authorities have said the area has also attracted people selling stolen goods tied to organized retail theft.<\/p>\n
“The parking lot was pretty full. There were quite a few cars \u2014 like a weekend,” Perales said.<\/p>\n
His killing marked Oakland’s sixth homicide of 2026, though city leaders have pointed to a decline in violent crime.<\/p>\n
“Crime in Oakland isn\u2019t going down, it\u2019s going up,” Perales said. “The numbers don\u2019t lie.”<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
This story was written from information provided by the Oakland Police Department along with previous reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Jorge Alberto Rivas Rodriguez was fatally shot Jan. 9 in the parking lot of the Oakland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[70001,34657,70000,143,12300,145,144,407],"class_list":["post-137909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-fake-ids","tag-flea-market","tag-jorge-alberto-rivas-rodriguez","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-coliseum","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}