{"id":256378,"date":"2026-04-07T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256378\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:35:08","slug":"3-men-sentenced-in-kevin-nishita-killing-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256378\/","title":{"rendered":"3 men sentenced in Kevin Nishita killing \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three men convicted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/kevin-nishita-murder-suspects-guilty\/4028874\/#:~:text=Kevin%20Nishita%20was%20gunned%20down,when%20he%20was%20fatally%20shot.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the killing of a Bay Area security guard<\/a> were sentenced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Nishita was gunned down in November 2021 during an attempted robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The former police officer was working as a guard and protecting a television news crew in Oakland when he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The gunman, Laron Gilbert, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. Gilbert had pleaded guilty to first degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert&#8217;s accomplices, Shadihia Mitchell and Hershel Hale, pleaded guilty to robbery with gang enhancements. <\/p>\n<p>Both Mitchell and Hale were sentenced to 25 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThousands are expected to gather Thursday in San Jose for a public memorial service honoring Kevin Nishita, the security guard and former police officer who was killed in Oakland while protecting a TV news crew. Kris Sanchez reports.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men convicted in the killing of a Bay Area security guard were sentenced on Tuesday. Kevin Nishita&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-256378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256378","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=256378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}