The Alameda County District Legal professional’s Workplace has charged a 20-year-old Antioch girl with tried homicide in reference to a violent weekend assault in Berkeley’s Individuals’s Park.
College of California police arrested Future Kellogg, 20, on suspicion of tried murder with two different allegations, use of a lethal weapon and inflicting of nice bodily harm, in addition to different allegations in regards to the sufferer’s weak standing.
Based on a sworn declaration by a UC police officer, he responded to a avenue beside the park simply after 8 a.m. Sunday for a report of a tent that had been set on fireplace and an assaulted feminine.
When one officer arrived lower than a minute after an alert in regards to the assault, he discovered a suspect, Kellogg, nonetheless holding a shovel and standing close to the sufferer, in line with court docket data. Kellogg fled throughout the road to a constructing, the place the officer detained and arrested her, that officer mentioned.
The declaring officer arrived to search out Kellogg standing subsequent to 2 stained shovels, one with its steel blade and a smaller one with its deal with bloodied.
Quickly after Berkeley Hearth Division firefighters handled the sufferer for wounds to the chest and the rear of the pinnacle, the officer spoke with the sufferer at a hospital. The sufferer mentioned she had been sitting in her tent when three folks started hitting her. She recognized Kellogg as certainly one of her attackers, authorities mentioned.
The officer reviewed surveillance digicam footage, which confirmed Kellogg “hit the sufferer roughly 11 occasions with the steel finish of a shovel over the course of 5 minutes, in line with the court docket declaration. Every shovel strike seemed to be aimed on the sufferer’s head and higher physique” earlier than stomping the sufferer within the head.
“[Her] assault lacked provocation and he or she had a number of occasions all through the assault to stroll away however maliciously continued,” the officer mentioned within the assertion, including that the sufferer had been positioned on concussion protocol whereas receiving hospital care.
Kellogg attended an arraignment listening to Wednesday in Oakland, and stays in custody at Santa Rita Jail whereas awaiting a pre-trial listening to Sept. 13, in line with an Alameda County data test.
College of California police didn't present further element across the assault’s preliminary framing as a attainable hate crime.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.