{"id":155735,"date":"2026-01-30T00:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155735\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T00:40:09","slug":"man-charged-with-killing-operator-of-lingerie-store-in-targeted-alleyway-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155735\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with killing operator of lingerie store in targeted alleyway attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 A Bay Area man has been charged with murder and attempted murder for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2026\/01\/27\/he-had-no-apparent-connection-to-oakland-lingerie-store-owner-so-why-did-he-allegedly-wait-outside-and-kill-him-at-3-a-m\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">allegedly shooting two brothers<\/a> after police say he waited about 15 minutes for them to exit their East Oakland store at 3:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Mendoza, 30, of Oakland, is in jail without bail, facing not just murder and attempted murder charges, but possessing the pistol used in the shooting and having a gun on him again when police arrested him earlier this week. Mendoza, a five-time felon most recently convicted of gun possession in 2022, is not legally allowed to carry a gun, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Police allege that Mendoza waited in an alleyway behind a store that sold snacks and lingerie on the 1600 block of International Boulevard, an area known for prostitution at all hours of the day. When Zinatullah Hedayet, 28, and his brother got into a Toyota Prius, Mendoza allegedly opened fire, killing Hedayet and wounding his brother, who survived, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities haven\u2019t said if they determined the suspected motive, but said that the shooting appeared to be targeted and that Mendoza had no apparent connection with either victim. Earlier this month, police arrested a man on conspiracy and murder charges but he was later released after talking to police, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>Both victims operated the store, which drew controversy from online reviewers who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/01\/14\/at-3-a-m-a-gunman-waited-behind-an-oakland-lingerie-store-on-the-blade-police-say-the-operator-was-shot-dead-minutes-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">accused it of profiting off of human trafficking<\/a>.\u00a0The shop\u2019s Oakland-issued business license expired on New Year\u2019s Eve \u2014 12 days after Hedayet was killed \u2014 and its Google page lists it as \u201cpermanently closed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mendoza ran to a getaway car near the alleyway where the shooting took place, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A Bay Area man has been charged with murder and attempted murder for allegedly shooting two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,143,863,76312,145,5061,76311,864,144],"class_list":["post-155735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-crime","tag-oakland-exotics","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-homicide","tag-oakland-lingerie-store","tag-oakland-murder","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155735","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=155735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}