OAKLAND — A Richmond lady took a plea deal and 25-year jail time period in a 2019 capturing that killed one man and injured 4 folks exterior an Oakland bar.
Final month, Matea Travenia pleaded no contest to manslaughter and assault prices, and in change, homicide and tried homicide prices had been dismissed. Travenia, a transgender lady who was charged below her authorized title, will probably be formally sentenced later this 12 months.
Travenia, 36, opened hearth about 1 a.m. Sept. 14, 2019 exterior the Laurel Lounge at thirty eighth Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard. The gunfire struck and killed Mario Perez, 46, of San Leandro.
Perez was on the bar with different relations after earlier celebrating a relative’s birthday at a restaurant. Perez’s brother and sister-in-law had been amongst these wounded, as was Travenia’s brother, who labored on the bar, and the bar proprietor, authorities mentioned.
Authorities mentioned for some motive Travenia was indignant and was being unruly exterior the bar and that the victims had been making an attempt to defuse the state of affairs when Travenia pulled a gun. Travenia ran from the scene however was arrested only a few blocks away.
Perez, an electrician and upkeep employee at St. Felicitas Catholic Faculty in San Leandro, left behind two sons. A GoFundMe web page arrange for his household after the capturing described him as “the sort of person who was the life of each occasion, made everybody really feel like they mattered in his life, would take the shirt off his again to assist a pal, was extraordinarily hardworking, and beloved everybody, regardless of the place they got here from or who they had been.”
Workers author Harry Harris contributed to this report.