{"id":389655,"date":"2026-07-07T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389655\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T20:51:07","slug":"oakland-police-investigating-reported-kidnapping-after-woman-struck-with-gun-forced-into-car-near-citys-laurel-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389655\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland police investigating reported kidnapping after woman struck with gun, forced into car near city&#8217;s Laurel District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) &#8212; Oakland police are investigating a reported kidnapping after a woman was struck with a gun and forced into a car near the city&#8217;s Laurel District last Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say the incident happened around 9:30 p.m. on July 3, in the 4200 block of Redding Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">MORE: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/woman-caught-video-being-kidnapped-oakland-comes-forward-attacker-large-police-say\/16059508\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woman caught on video being kidnapped in Oakland comes forward, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They say the suspect hit the woman with a gun and forced her into a dark colored, four-door sedan. The suspect then drove westbound on Redding Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim is described as a white female, approximately 30 to 32 years old and about 130 pounds. Her height, hair color and eye color are unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect is described as a Black male, approximately 30 to 32 years old, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighing 140 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and blue-and-white pants and was armed with a black Glock-style handgun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anyone with information is asked to contact the Oakland Police Department&#8217;s Missing Persons Unit at (510) 238-3641 or call 911.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) &#8212; Oakland police are investigating a reported kidnapping after a woman was struck with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[157036,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-389655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-157036","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389655","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=389655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}