Four men pistol-whipped and robbed an Uber driver early Friday morning while he was waiting to pick up a passenger outside an Oakland hotel, the Oakland Police Department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver arrived outside the Oakland Marriott City Center at around 4 a.m. Friday morning, according to a police report. Two cars\u00a0\u2014 a white Lexus and a gray Dodge Charger\u00a0\u2014 then pulled up alongside him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Surveillance footage reviewed by the Chronicle shows four masked people in dark clothing getting out of the cars and surrounding the victim\u2019s vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The four suspects can be seen opening the passenger- and driver-side doors of the car and threatening the man inside with pistols.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They struck the driver on the head with their guns about 10 times, according to the police report, before fleeing southbound on Broadway with his wallet and cell phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver suffered \u201cmoderate lacerations and swelling to face and head,\u201d according to the report. When police arrived, he declined medical treatment and said he would take himself to a local hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police recovered the\u00a0Lexus from 1700 Castro Street, the address of a gas station about a mile from the hotel. Police found the Dodge\u2019s license plate inside the Lexus, and a witness told officers that the four suspects had piled into the Dodge before driving away eastbound on Interstate 580.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No arrests had been announced by Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four men pistol-whipped and robbed an Uber driver early Friday morning while he was waiting to pick up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,723,332,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-358839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area","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\/358839","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=358839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}