OAKLAND — A 27-year-old Vallejo man has been arrested and charged with homicide in reference to the Sept. 23 armored truck theft that left one man lifeless and two others wounded, together with one suspected robber and one Brinks worker, court docket data present.
Trevon Johnson was charged Thursday with murdering Darrion Nash, although police allege that Johnson and Nash — together with two different yet-to-be-identified males — had been making an attempt to rob the armored truck when a Brinks worker killed Nash throughout a shootout. Johnson is charged beneath the provocative act principle, which says that cohorts in against the law could be held liable when a sufferer makes use of lawful self-defense.
Police say that Johnson was wounded within the legs throughout the shootout, however by some means managed to crawl to the getaway automobile and later examine himself right into a San Francisco hospital, the place he was arrested. Jail data say he was booked into Santa Rita on Oct. 4.
A possible trigger assertion filed by police investigators lays out what authorities imagine occurred the afternoon of the theft.
It began round 2 p.m. on Sept. 23, because the truck was pulling right into a car parking zone on the 4400 block of Worldwide Boulevard in East Oakland. 4 suspects approached the motive force on his manner again to the automobile, and Nash allegedly drew a gun and tried to deal with the motive force. Johnson, in the meantime, fired a handgun, prompting the motive force to return fireplace.
Through the shootout that adopted, Nash was struck and killed, a Brinks worker was wounded however survived, and Johnson was hit within the legs, police say. An hour later, Johnson arrived on the San Francisco hospital “carrying the identical clothes because the wounded suspect from the incident in Oakland,” police mentioned in court docket data.
One of many remaining two suspects was seen on video fleeing with a bag full of money, police say.
Throughout a short interview on the hospital, Johnson allegedly acknowledged being acquainted with Nash however denied any position within the theft or that he was even current on the crime scene. He as a substitute claimed he’d been shot in San Francisco by somebody he didn’t acknowledge, police say.
Johnson is being held with out bail and is subsequent due in court docket on Oct. 14, to enter a plea, court docket data present. He was formally learn the fees at a short court docket look Friday morning.