{"id":7810,"date":"2026-08-26T22:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:40:31","slug":"fatal-oakland-stabbing-victim-loved-helping-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7810","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Oakland stabbing victim loved helping others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>OAKLAND \u2014 Whether you were a family member or friend, or an unhoused person at a park, Gonsalo Lopez would help you any way he could; but not any more.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7808\">Kurtenbach: Preseason doesn\u2019t matter? Tell that to the 49ers fighting for jobs vs. the Raiders<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old Lopez was fatally stabbed just before 7:30 p.m. Monday at Cesar Chavez Park in the Fruitvale district \u2014 where he had brought food for many years to unhoused people living there, his family said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez was the first victim of the suspect, a 34-year-old man who allegedly stabbed four other people at other locations before being arrested. Police have said all five were attacked at random and that the suspect did not know any of them. A possible motive for the spree has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The four people who survived the attack were hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, sadness and shock filled Lopez\u2019s home where he lived with his three sons and wife a few blocks from the park.<\/p>\n<p>A longtime chef, he had just returned home last week from a lengthy vacation in his native Honduras, where he had gone to visit his adopted daughter, according to his 28-year-old son, Kenny Romero.<\/p>\n<p>Romero said for years his father had taken meals he cooked to the park whenever he could to give to give to the unhoused people living there. He had not taken any food Monday night, but had gone to the park just to visit with people, his son said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7806\">Meta reaches landmark $18 billion settlement with states in trial over teen social media addiction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said his father \u201cjust helped people. He was a really good person. He would go to the park as often as he could and they would always say \u2018thank you.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>His family felt his love and saw his willingness to help every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a super great father,\u201d Romero said. \u201cHe worked really hard to give us every opportunity. Whenever we needed something he would help us.\u201d<br \/>\nRomero said he will \u201calways remember his smile, his love of music; he loved to dance. He was always happy; he was wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The four other people stabbed were a 47-year-old man near 38th Avenue and San Leandro Street, a 31-year-old man near the Fruitvale BART Station in the 3800 block of San Leandro Street, and a 52-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man, both near 39th Avenue and International Boulevard. The 31-year-old man was in critical condition and the others were in stable condition.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The suspect, who authorities have not publicly identified but said is unhoused, was being held without bail Wednesday at Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of murder and assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm. He was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7805\">WA man convicted of murder for shooting Newark father. The DA says it was a vengeance for daughter\u2019s death<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man fatally stabbed at an Oakland park Monday night was a devoted father who loved helping others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fatal Oakland stabbing victim loved helping others - Next City Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7810\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fatal Oakland stabbing victim loved helping others - 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