{"id":175526,"date":"2026-02-12T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175526\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T21:14:09","slug":"73-year-old-woman-hit-with-gun-robbed-of-purse-in-oakland-east-bay-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/175526\/","title":{"rendered":"73-year-old woman hit with gun, robbed of purse in Oakland \u2013 East Bay Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 A robber hit a 73-year-old woman on the head with a gun and stole her purse Wednesday afternoon in a Montclair district parking lot, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The robbery happened about 2:25 p.m. Wednesday in a lot in\u00a0 the 6200 block of Antioch Street.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial police reports, the woman was walking to her car in the lot when a man came up from behind her and grabbed her purse.<\/p>\n<p>The woman briefly struggled with the man over the purse before he pulled a pistol and struck her in the head, according to the initial reports.\u00a0 He then fled in a\u00a0 black Honda Accord.<\/p>\n<p>The woman did not require hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>The robber was described as a Hispanic man in his 20s, about 5 feet 5 with a slim build wearing dark clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the robbery may call police at 510-238-3326.\u00a0 Anyone with video or other images that might assist in the investigation may e-mail them to cidvideo@oaklandca.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A robber hit a 73-year-old woman on the head with a gun and stole her purse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,861,7,8,138,332,1529,181,100,143,145,1904,144,385,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-175526","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-latest-headlines","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-oakland","19":"tag-oakland-headlines","20":"tag-oakland-hills","21":"tag-oakland-news","22":"tag-regional","23":"tag-robbery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175526","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=175526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}