{"id":431682,"date":"2026-08-13T10:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431682\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T10:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:58:44","slug":"oakland-rapper-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-police-say-he-fired-at-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431682\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland rapper charged with attempted murder after police say he fired at a family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An Oakland man has been charged with attempted murder and other felonies after police accused him of opening fire on a married couple and their three children during a July confrontation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tahytus Johnson, 20, faces 12 felony counts, including attempted murder, assault with a firearm, child abuse and firearm-related offenses, according to court records provided to the <a data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose Mercury News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/11\/oakland-man-charged-with-attempted-murder-and-child-abuse-for-allegedly-shooting-at-family\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A judge ordered that he be held without bail, the records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting occurred about 1:30 p.m. July 9 on the 1900 block of Market Street, police said. No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About 30 minutes earlier, three women, including two of Johnson&#8217;s relatives, had gotten into an argument with one of the adults in the family, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the couple pushed their children to the ground as gunfire erupted. The man then retrieved his own firearm, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said surveillance footage led investigators to Johnson&#8217;s <a data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram account;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dttg.weez\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram account<\/a>, where they found images they said were consistent with the clothing worn by the shooting suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Johnson also appears to have <a data-ylk=\"slk:promoted music online;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tahytus-johnson-245498296\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">promoted music online<\/a>, including through a public SoundCloud page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said social-media accounts associated with Johnson and his brother, <a data-ylk=\"slk:Taurus Johnson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Bodygzzz.dem\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Taurus Johnson<\/a>, identified them as part of a group of local rappers who use the acronym <a data-ylk=\"slk:NBS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@nbsdonk00\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">NBS<\/a>, which stands for &#8220;Nobody Safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:There&#039;s more to San Francisco with the Chronicle. 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Subscribe today for just 25\u00a2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a data-ylk=\"slk:Oakland rapper charged with attempted murder after police say he fired at a family;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/eastbay\/article\/oakland-man-family-shooting-22383808.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland rapper charged with attempted murder after police say he fired at a family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oakland man has been charged with attempted murder and other felonies after police accused him of opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5526,4885,143,145,144,171520,171521],"class_list":["post-431682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-attempted-murder","tag-felony-charges","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-tahytus-johnson","tag-taurus-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431682","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=431682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}