OAKLAND \u2014 When he was just 3 years old, Stacy Tidwell IV\u2019s father was shot and killed in a parking lot behind his North Oakland home.<\/p>\n
At around 10 p.m. on Dec. 29, 2025, Tidwell suffered a similar fate. He was fatally shot by someone in a group of masked robbers, after police say Tidwell and another man were set up near Fremont High, about eight miles east from where Tidwell\u2019s dad was killed.<\/p>\n
Authorities are still investigating Tidwell\u2019s death, but last week they arrested a suspect, 18-year-old Marjee \u201cLil Jae\u201d Martin, who has been charged with murder and two counts of second-degree robbery. Police say they\u2019re not sure who fired the fatal shot but found evidence that Martin put the plan in motion by arranging to meet the two victims in East Oakland for a purported opiate painkiller drug deal which he intended to be a robbery the entire time.<\/p>\n
Tidwell\u2019s companion drove him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police later found text messages between Martin and the other man where they arranged to meet in the area, according to police. Martin was arrested in St. Louis and is being extradited to the Bay Area, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Just 16 months before his death, in August 2024, Tidwell was nearly killed in a shooting that occurred near 8th and Center streets in West Oakland. A man identified by police as Zaire Campbell shot Tidwell and two other people, but Tidwell suffered the most serious injury of the bunch. He was hospitalized in the ICU and intubated with multiple gunshot wounds. Campbell was charged with attempted murder, court records show.<\/p>\n
In 2006, the San Francisco Chronicle featured Tidwell in an article about a Sankofa Academy kindergarten class where teachers were trying something new: home visits with students to form deeper connections with kids entering early education. The article notes pictures of Tidwell\u2019s father, Stacy Tidwell III, around their home and how he still \u201clooms large\u201d despite his homicide three years earlier.<\/p>\n
Tidwell III was shot multiple times at the 900 block of 55th Street in Oakland, on Aug. 15, 2003, according to media reports. It is unclear if police ever arrested a suspect but if they did, it wasn\u2019t covered by the local press at the time.<\/p>\n
The Chronicle reporter asked Stacy Tidwell IV\u2019s mother what she hoped for her son, who was just 6 years old at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat he go to Harvard and get a doctorate,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh honey, I love your dream,\u201d said the teacher.<\/p>\n
Staff writer Harry Harris contributed reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 When he was just 3 years old, Stacy Tidwell IV\u2019s father was shot and killed in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,78084,78085,143,863,145,864,15371,144,865,78083],"class_list":{"0":"post-164676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-bay-area-crime","9":"tag-california-crime","10":"tag-lil-jae","11":"tag-marjee","12":"tag-oakland","13":"tag-oakland-crime","14":"tag-oakland-headlines","15":"tag-oakland-murder","16":"tag-oakland-murder-rate","17":"tag-oakland-news","18":"tag-oakland-shooting","19":"tag-stacy-tidwell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164676","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=164676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}