{"id":357241,"date":"2026-06-12T03:03:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357241\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:03:41","slug":"body-found-in-east-bay-homeless-encampment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357241\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in East Bay homeless encampment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dead body was found in West Oakland on Tuesday afternoon, Oakland police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the 500 block of 34th Street around 1 p.m. Tuesday, the Oakland Police Department said in a Thursday morning statement. When they arrived, they found the body of a deceased man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mercury News reported that the location was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/06\/10\/body-found-buried-at-oakland-homeless-camp\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">homeless encampment<\/a>, where the man\u2019s body was found buried and partially decomposed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cause of his death was unclear pending an autopsy, police said. No other identifying details about the man were immediately released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators from the\u00a0OPD Homicide Division are conducting a follow-up investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death,\u201d police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead body was found in West Oakland on Tuesday afternoon, Oakland police said.\u00a0 Officers responded to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[723,332,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-357241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-crime","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357241","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=357241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}