A 15-month-old child was hit by shrapnel when a robber fired a gun in an attempted robbery Tuesday morning in the Trestle Glen neighborhood of Oakland, police said.
The attempted robbery occurred a little before 11 a.m. in the 800 block of Trestle Glen Road.
Two suspects approached both the child and another person and demanded the person's belongings. One suspect had a gun, Oakland police said.
The wounded child was taken to a hospital and was in stable condition Tuesday, according to police.
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"My wife and I ran downstairs and outside and we saw the woman across the street on the ground," neighbor Tim Johnson said. "The little boy was in the stroller. He was crying and hysterical. The woman was fine, badly shaken up."
Oakland police said they're looking for two suspects involved in the attempted robbery.
Johnson said the attack highlights a growing problem in the neighborhood.
"There’s been at least two other assaults in our neighborhood this year," he said. "It makes me want more police of course and it makes me afraid being an older citizen. We have five cameras on our house. Every time we go out, particularly in the evening, we wonder are we going to be safe."
Last month police investigated a reported robbery and kidnapping on the same street, and last weekend a woman was robbed in the neighborhood. Police said robberies have increased by 3% over the last year.
"There is no rhyme or reason to when these crimes are occurring," police spokesperson Kim Armstead said. "They are happening throughout the week, not just on weekends, not just at night, could be in the morning. A lot of the times these are certainly unprovoked incidents."
Anyone with information about Tuesday's case is asked to please call the police department's criminal investigations division at 510-238-3426 or 510-238-3326.
