{"id":172006,"date":"2026-02-10T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172006\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:53:07","slug":"two-wounded-in-oakland-drive-by-shooting-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/172006\/","title":{"rendered":"Two wounded in Oakland drive-by shooting \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 Two men riding in a car in East Oakland early Tuesday were wounded in a drive-by shooting, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Both men, one 21 and the other 33, were in stable condition at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened about 1:55 a.m. Tuesday in the 5800 block of Avenal Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial police reports, the two men, and another passenger, were driving in a car when a van pulled alongside them and someone inside began shooting at them before continuing on.<\/p>\n<p>The 21 year-old man was hit in the back and the other man in the arm. The third man was not injured.\u00a0 It was not clear which one was driving.<\/p>\n<p>They drove to another location and called the police.<\/p>\n<p>A motive for the shooting is under investigation. Detailed descriptions of the shooter and the van have not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the shooting may call police at 510-238-3426. Anyone with video or other images that might assist in the investigation may e-mail them to cidvideo@oaklandca.gov.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 Two men riding in a car in East Oakland early Tuesday were wounded in a drive-by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,861,7,8,138,332,1529,9858,181,100,143,145,144,385,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-172006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alameda-county","9":"tag-bay-area","10":"tag-bay-area-crime","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-east-bay","15":"tag-east-bay-crime","16":"tag-east-oakland","17":"tag-latest-headlines","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-oakland","20":"tag-oakland-headlines","21":"tag-oakland-news","22":"tag-regional","23":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172006","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=172006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}