A security guard died after he was shot while he protected a Bay Area television news crew covering a smash-and-grab theft, part of a rash of organized retail crime in the region.
A security guard has died after he was shot while protecting a Bay Area television news crew covering a smash-and-grab theft, part of“We are devastated by the loss of security guard and our friend, Kevin Nishita. Our deepest sympathy goes to Kevin’s wife, his children, his family, and to all his friends and colleagues,” KRON-TV’s vice president and general manager, Jim Rose, said in a statement Saturday.
He was shot in the abdomen during an attempted robbery of KRON-TV’s camera equipment near downtown Oakland on Wednesday, police said.The news crew was covering a recent robbery involving a group of thieves who broke in and stole from a clothing store.Nishita was a police officer for the cities of Hayward, San Jose and Colma before retiring in 2018. The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said deputies escorted his body from the hospital with full law enforcement honors.
The region has been struck by organized retail thefts in which bands of thieves, some carrying crowbars and hammers, break into high-end stores and snatch merchandise.At least eight thieves stormed a Home Depot store in Lakewood on Black Friday and grabbed hammers, crowbars and sledgehammers in the tool section before dashing off in a getaway vehicle, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
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