OAKLAND – Prosecutors on Friday charged a 38-year-old man with the homicide of an Oakland Homosexual Males’s Refrain singer.
Curtis Marsh was discovered unresponsive with “a number of lacerations and trauma” at an house complicated within the 200 block of Vernon St., close to Lake Merritt, on the morning of March 4, in accordance with courtroom information. Officers had gone to the complicated to research stories of a person calling for assist and smoke coming from inside an house.
Marsh was pronounced useless on the scene.
Authorities recognized Oakland resident Sweven Waterman as a suspect based mostly on surveillance footage, witness statements and digital knowledge, in accordance with courtroom information.
On Thursday, Waterman was arrested in Berkeley and brought to the Oakland Police Division Legal Investigations Division, the place he “offered investigators with a denial assertion to the place he was through the homicide,” in accordance with courtroom information.
Waterman has half a dozen convictions for crimes together with second-degree theft, forgery and evading.
In a Fb put up Friday, the Oakland Homosexual Males’s Refrain recalled Marsh as an “completed tenor” who “introduced type and verve to each occasion, massive and small.”
“Curtis was a relentless supply of brightness, heat and pleasure. He beloved as dearly as he was beloved by others, and gave again heartily to his household, associates and group. The life pressure of this man was a present deserving of affection, gratitude and applause,” the put up learn.
“We're heartbroken on the mindless lack of his life, and stand in solidarity and deep sympathy with those that knew and beloved him.”
A gathering for Marsh is scheduled to happen Saturday at 4 p.m. on the Oakland LGBTQ Neighborhood Heart at 3207 Lakeshore Ave., in accordance with the Fb put up.
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