OAKLAND — A person and a juvenile had been charged Friday with homicide and making an attempt to carjack an Uber driver who was ready for a passenger when he was accosted and fatally shot final month, courtroom data present.
Main Willis, 19, was charged with homicide and tried carjacking. The identify, age, and gender of his teenaged co-defendant — who was charged in juvenile courtroom — haven't been launched.
The sufferer, 52-year-old Kon Woo Fung, was shot and killed round 11 a.m. July 17, close to the intersection of East twenty second Avenue and thirteenth Avenue. The 2 suspects ordered him out of the automotive; he was shot when he didn’t comply, in keeping with authorities.
Authorities haven't stated whether or not Willis or the youth is suspected to have fired the deadly pictures. However the prison criticism, whereas charging Willis with a number of different enhancements, doesn't embody an allegation that he “personally and deliberately” fired a gun throughout the incident. That is a sign that both police imagine the teenager killed Fung, or that investigators weren’t in a position to decide precisely who did what.
Investigators stated in courtroom data that each suspects had been recognized due to surveillance video cameras within the space. Each suspects had been arrested Aug. 9. Willis is being held in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin with out bail. He has not but entered a plea, in keeping with courtroom data.
In a written assertion as a part of a information launch asserting the fees, District Legal professional Nancy O’Malley famous that Fung was shot whereas doing his job and supplied condolences to his household.
“His loss of life has rocked the Little Saigon group,” O’Malley stated.