OAKLAND — A suspect has been arrested and charged with homicide in reference to town’s a hundredth murder of the yr, police say.
Khalil Attiba, 40, was charged with murdering Louis Truehill, who was shot and killed Oct. 3 on the 1300 block of Kirkham Method in West Oakland. Police stated Attiba is confined to a wheelchair and shot Truehill within the “decrease extremities” throughout a disagreement “concerning cash being owed for earlier narcotic transactions.” Truehill tried in useless to disarm Attiba, who shot him one final time earlier than leaving the world, police allege.
Attiba was arrested by U.S. Marshalls two days later at his residence on Canning Road in Oakland, police say. He allegedly recognized himself on surveillance video of the capturing, however insisted that he had lawfully defended himself from an assault.
Along with the homicide cost, Attiba faces felony prices of carrying a hid weapon and possessing a firearm as a felon. He has not but entered a plea and stays in Santa Rita Jail on a no-bail maintain, police say.
Attiba was paralyzed in a 2010 West Oakland capturing that killed 26-year-old Walter Harris, authorities stated.
Workers author Harry Harris contributed reporting