OAKLEY — On March 2, a violence prevention activity pressure was readying itself to serve a warrant at a house on the 1400 block of Carpenter Street.
Outfitted with further firearms, armor and a steel battering machine to interrupt down the door, the crew was ready for nearly something. However what they didn’t count on was what occurred subsequent: 32-year-old Billy Bruce Cole, of Oakley, got here operating out of the house, totally bare, bleeding from the hand, in keeping with investigators.
“Somebody has been shot again right here, I used to be going to name the police,” he reportedly mentioned.
When police entered the residence, they found the physique of 35-year-old Sacramento resident Rommel Hernandez. He’d been shot and appeared to have died a number of hours earlier, in keeping with police.
Additionally within the house was Anastashia Wilfong, 27, of West Sacramento, who was detained in a again lavatory of the residence.
When the smoke cleared, prosecutors charged Cole with murdering Hernandez and Wilfong with accent after the actual fact. Each stay in Contra Costa jail and have pleaded not responsible.
In accordance with court docket information, Cole and Wilfong informed police that Wilfong and Hernandez had been in a relationship relationship, and that Cole — who’d been staying on the home for about three weeks — was the one who shot Hernandez. At one level throughout an interview the place he gave inconsistent variations, he mentioned he shot Hernandez whereas “combating for the gun,” in keeping with police.
Cole additionally informed police that in the event that they checked safety cameras on the house they might see him kicking Hernandez’s physique after the taking pictures.
Each Wilfong and Cole had been held to reply at a preliminary listening to final Might, however a trial date has not but been set, court docket information present.