{"id":484183,"date":"2026-10-03T19:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484183\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T19:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T19:54:36","slug":"oakland-hills-victims-were-fashion-company-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484183\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland hills victims were fashion company leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man and woman shot to death Friday outside an extravagant home in the Oakland hills<\/a> were the CEO and designer of a Berkeley-based fashion brand, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n

Bryan Walker was CEO of Bryn Walker,<\/a> a fashion design company with two Berkeley storefronts and one in Massachusetts, according to a LinkedIn page. Michelle Min was the company\u2019s designer, according to a blog post.<\/a><\/p>\n

Oakland police have not named the victims, who were found outside the home. They died at the scene.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Oakland police Asst. Chief Casey Johnson said police did not believe there was any ongoing threat to the public, and said \u201cwe are not ruling anything out\u201d when asked if the case was a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is a possibility until we can fully investigate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

On Friday, a neighbor told the East Bay Times that it appeared a married couple had lived at the home, in the Oakland hills near the Berkeley border.<\/p>\n

KTVU<\/a> reported that a woman who identified herself as the victim\u2019s sister said her brother-in-law had been suffering from mental health issues.<\/p>\n

Bryn Walker is a women\u2019s fashion brand with two stores in Berkeley, according to its website: one at 1799 Fourth St. and another at 2111 D Vine St. The company released a fall 2026 collection this year.<\/p>\n

A community gathering is planned for Sunday morning at 401 Panoramic Way in Berkeley. Organizers encouraged attendees to bring a memento to place near the victims\u2019 home in their memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man and woman shot to death Friday outside an extravagant home in the Oakland hills were the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,861,7,723,138,332,181,100,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-484183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484183","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=484183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}