East Oakland Community Remembers Victims of Saturday’s Deadly Car Crash ^1.8%

KQED - By Katie DeBenedetti - 5/19/2026, 7:23 PM

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Friends mourned a man described as a mentor, family man and prominent community member after he was killed in a deadly car crash in East Oakland on Saturday. Though the Alameda County Coroner has not officially released identities of the victims, James Robert Dixon Jr., who was also known as ‘Frog,’ was identified by loved ones as one of... more