{"id":388887,"date":"2026-07-07T05:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:54:07","slug":"suspect-in-oakland-vehicle-attack-charged-with-attempted-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/388887\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Oakland vehicle attack charged with attempted murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 A suspect in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/05\/02\/police-seven-injured-when-car-deliberately-hits-them-in-oaklands-uptown-district\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a vehicle attack that seriously injured<\/a> more than half a dozen people two months ago in Uptown Oakland has been charged with attempted murder, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Dameon Clay is slated to be arraigned on the charges Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>The attack happened during the early morning hours of May 2 in the 500 block of 18th Street. Prosecutors allege Clay intentionally drove his car onto the sidewalk, sped toward a crowd of pedestrians and hit eight of them before slamming into a gate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis case involves an intentional act of extreme violence in which the defendant drove his car onto a sidewalk, striking multiple victims and causing serious injuries,\u201d Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Clay, along with a passenger, fled on foot, leaving the wrecked car behind, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims told police they had attended a First Friday event a few hours earlier and were hanging out when they were reportedly attacked. They ranged in age from 15 to 23 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were treated at hospitals and later listed in stable condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A suspect in a vehicle attack that seriously injured more than half a dozen people two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,5526,184,7,1312,723,332,156728,100,143,145,144,156727],"class_list":["post-388887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-attempted-murder","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-east-bay","tag-first-friday","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-vehicle-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388887","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=388887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}