BERKELEY — Two males and a lady had been arrested Tuesday night time in reference to the deadly capturing of a seminary scholar and the wounding of three of his family members this month simply south of the College of California campus.
In information first reported by the Berkeley Scanner, Michael Monrroy-Ramos, a 23-year-old longshoreman, was arrested at 5:30 p.m. in Union Metropolis on suspicion of homicide and tried homicide by capturing from a automobile. On the similar time, police additionally arrested Andy Geovanny Gutierrez-Rebollo, a 24-year-old metallic employee, in Oakland on related prices.
An hour later, Jessyca Monrroy, a 31-year-old girl, was arrested in Union Metropolis on suspicion of being an adjunct.
All three had been held in custody with out bail in Berkeley metropolis jail prematurely of arraignment hearings scheduled for Friday morning at Oakland’s Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse, in keeping with Alameda County jail data.
A Berkeley police spokesman didn't initially reply Wednesday to a request for touch upon the arrests or their connection to a deadly capturing October 11 that additionally injured three different males.
However late Thursday morning, the spokesman confirmed the arrests, sharing that the boys had been strolling again to their automobile shortly after 1 a.m. within the 2300 block of Telegraph Avenue close to Durant Avenue after an evening out when “two suspects approached the group and began a combat.”
“Throughout that combat, each suspects pulled out weapons and opened fireplace — placing all 4 males and inflicting quite a few individuals within the space to flee from the gunfire,” Officer Byron White, the division spokesman, mentioned.
The sufferer of that capturing was recognized as 29-year-old Pacific Faculty of Faith scholar Isamaeli “Eli” Mata’afa. Three of his family members, recognized solely as males ages 22, 24 and 28, had been harm.
Investigators’ progress with witness testimony, surveillance-camera footage and different leads led them to establish suspects, acquire warrants for his or her arrests and serve them Tuesday with assist from U.S. Marshals.
“Through the search/arrest warrants, a lot of firearms had been recovered—together with a number of un-serialized weapons (AKA ghost weapons) in addition to proof that different ghost weapons had been being produced there,” White mentioned partly. “This capturing was one of the horrific acts of violence our group has skilled in latest reminiscence. We're grateful we had been in a position to convey these answerable for the violence to justice and we're grateful for the group’s continued help.”
No prices had been filed with the Alameda County District Legal professional’s workplace as of noon Thursday. The killing is the third murder investigated by Berkeley police this 12 months.
Anybody with data or any sort of video of what occurred might name Berkeley murder investigators at 510-981-5741 and reference Case No. 2022-00047451.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.