OAKLAND — A person with a historical past of unprovoked bodily assaults on individuals has been charged with tried homicide in an Aug.15 taking pictures of a person in Oakland’s Lakeside Park, in line with authorities and court docket paperwork.
King Jamil Stevenson, 29, pleaded not responsible Tuesday to the tried homicide rely and one other cost of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He's scheduled for a pre-trial listening to Sept. 19. An enhancement to the costs says Stevenson was on probation on the time of the taking pictures.
The taking pictures occurred about 1:30 p.m. Aug. 15 within the 600 block of Bellevue Avenue.
Authorities mentioned Stevenson, who police had been instructed consistently bullied individuals round Lake Merritt, had gotten right into a dispute with an individual when a 33-year-old man confronted him and instructed him to go away individuals alone. In accordance with court docket paperwork Stevenson then shot the 33-year-old year-old man within the jaw and chin.
Authorities mentioned each Stevenson and the person shot are homeless.
The taking pictures prompted a large police response to the park to seek for the suspect. Kids’s Fairyland and another services had been evacuated earlier than Stevenson was arrested about 5 p.m. inside one other individual’s tent within the 400 block of Bellevue Avenue.
Stevenson’s Sept. 19 court docket look may also cowl two different pending instances.
In accordance with court docket information, on the time of the taking pictures Stevenson was being sought on a warrant charging him with violating probation in a September 2021 assault in Berkeley, the place he allegedly punched a person into unconsciousness in an unprovoked assault. He was initially charged with assault with drive more likely to commit nice bodily damage and battery with critical bodily damage, each felonies. In a plea deal he was convicted of the assault rely and positioned on two years probation on Nov. 15, 2021.
He was additionally dealing with three misdemeanor counts of assault, battery and elder abuse in one other case linked to a Feb. 11 incident in Oakland’s Chinatown.
In accordance with court docket paperwork, Stevenson is accused of threatening a custodian on the Pacific Renaissance Plaza with a blunt object, after which, after leaving the advanced, punching a 43-year-old man with out provocation within the space and shoving that man’s 76-year-old father to the pavement when he tried to intervene.
Stevenson is being held with out bail at Santa Rita Jail.