OAKLAND – The third suspect in the 2021 killing of Oakland security guard Kevin Nishita is being extradited back to the Bay Area after he was arrested earlier this month in Missouri.
In an update Tuesday morning, Oakland Police said 29-year-old Laron Marques Gilbert is being transported to the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, where he is expected to arrive in the afternoon.
Earlier this month, U.S. Marshals in Kansas City, Missouri learned that Gilbert was in the area. Authorities arrested Gilbert in a Kansas City suburb on January 17 .
“We never stop,” Sgt. Nicole Allen of the department’s Homicide Section said at Tuesday’s briefing. “We go as far as we need to go, whethere is Missouri, whether it’s New York, whether it’s San Leandro. Cases are still going as long as there are suspects are out there, we’ll keep looking for them.”
Gilbert is one of three people charged with murdering Nishita, a former police officer who served as a security guard for broadcast news operations in the Bay Area, including KPIX.