{"id":269163,"date":"2026-04-15T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269163\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:51:20","slug":"ex-san-jose-state-linebacker-hadari-darden-is-missing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269163\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-San Jose State linebacker Hadari Darden is missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former San Jose State football player and Berkeley resident has gone missing, and his family hasn\u2019t seen him in 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>A statement and flyer from The Aware Foundation said that 28-year-old Hadari Darden, 28, hasn\u2019t been seen since about 1:15 a.m. on April 5 at the Skyline Shopping Center in Daly City. The AWARE Foundation is a national non-profit organization that assists families with missing loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>Darden played linebacker with the Spartans from 2018 to 2021 after previously attending Contra Costa College and Moreau Catholic High in Hayward.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, a security guard saw Darden walking in the area of the mall. He was wearing green joggers and a black hoodie and was carrying an army-colored backpack.<\/p>\n<p>His family last saw him on April 4 in Berkeley. Family in social media posts said he had exhibited some strange behavior in the weeks leading up to his disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>Daly City police are investigating his disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>The AWARE Foundation said Darden\u2019s mother has concerns for his well-being because he was spotted at a location far from public transportation and does not have his own vehicle.\n<\/p>\n<p>Authorities encouraged anyone who may see him to contact Daly City police at 650-991-8119 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former San Jose State football player and Berkeley resident has gone missing, and his family hasn\u2019t seen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[8816,116823,116824,93058,1770,88,90,89,116822,73762],"class_list":{"0":"post-269163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-daly-city","9":"tag-former-san-jose-state-linebacker","10":"tag-hadari-darden","11":"tag-last-seen","12":"tag-missing","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news","16":"tag-search-on","17":"tag-shopping-mall"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269163","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=269163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}