Jermel Holloway

Jermel Holloway was a 28‑year‑old member of the Oakland community whose life touched family and friends. Public records and contemporary news accounts identify him as living in Oakland and present in West Oakland on the night of November 29, 2009. Those accounts report that he was walking on the 3000 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way late that evening and was taken to medical care but did not survive.

Though details publicly available about his private life, work, and family are limited in news and archival sources, the records make clear that Jermel was a real person surrounded by loved ones who acted to help him when he was injured. A brief obituary notice listed under his name exists in online obituary indexes, but its published death date differs by one day from the contemporary news reporting; because of that discrepancy, no single published funeral or family notice matching the exact database death date could be confidently confirmed.

What remains most important is to acknowledge the human reality behind the headlines: Jermel was someone’s relative, friend, and neighbor. Even in the absence of a detailed public memoir, the basic facts recorded in reliable outlets show a young life in Oakland cut short on November 29, 2009. This page honors Jermel by centering his personhood rather than the circumstances of his death, and by recognizing that behind the public record there were people who loved him and who continue to remember him.