OAKLAND — Alameda County prosecutors have charged a person with homicide following a shootout earlier this month that killed a Pittsburg man and wounded the suspect and a lady within the Uptown district.
Police arrested 37-year-old Eric Warrick on Monday within the 7900 block of Hillside Avenue after authorities issued an arrest warrant for him. He's charged with capturing to dying 35-year-old Joshua Barnes on Aug. 6 at round 3:15 a.m., based on charging paperwork obtained from the Alameda County District Legal professional’s Workplace.
The homicide cost carries with it particular allegations that Warrick used a gun and that he deliberately used it and induced nice bodily harm with it. Warrick additionally has been charged with assault with a semiautomatic gun.
He remained in custody with out bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on Wednesday.
In response to a police probable-cause-for-arrest assertion, surveillance video exhibits Warrick approaching Barnes within the 1900 block of Broadway with a gun in his hand and a flash from a gun is seen. Barnes had his again to Warrick when the flash could be seen, and he flinches, then pulls out a gun from his waistband and begins firing at Warrick as Warrick retains capturing, police mentioned.
Police later discovered a number of shell casings on the scene. The video clearly exhibits Warrick to be the preliminary aggressor within the incident, Oakland police Officer Kevin Godchaux wrote within the possible trigger assertion.
Warrick and a lady who was with him have been wounded within the shootout, based on police. Officers discovered them in entrance of an house within the 400 block of seventeenth Avenue, sporting the identical garments they have been seen sporting in surveillance video of the capturing, Godchaux wrote.
The footage exhibits that earlier than the capturing, Barnes approached a gaggle and an obvious dispute occurred between Barnes, Warrick and the girl, based on courtroom paperwork.
After the dispute, Barnes started strolling along with his group westbound throughout nineteenth Avenue to the opposite facet of Broadway. Officers heard the sound of obvious gunshots and responded.
As soon as there, they discovered Barnes with a couple of gunshot wound and inside a car. An ambulance rushed him to Highland Hospital, the place he died.
The lady seen within the video surveillance with Warrick survived her accidents, police mentioned. She was not charged with against the law.