Members of the community came together to show support for an elderly security guard in Oakland’s Oakmore neighborhood who was attacked last week by three men burglarizing a neighborhood home, police and an Oakland city councilmember said.

About 100 people gathered Friday afternoon at Rocky’s Market at 1440 Leimert Blvd. to support Alex Igbineweka, City Councilmember Janani Ramachandran said.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.