OAKLAND — An 18-year-old has been charged with two counts of homicide and two counts of tried homicide in reference to the October celebration capturing that killed two brothers and left two others hospitalized with accidents, authorities mentioned.
Joaquin Godoy, of Oakland, was charged Tuesday with homicide within the deaths of brothers Jazy Sotelo Garcia, 17, and Angel Sotelo Garcia, 15, on the Oct. 1, 2022 home celebration. A second suspect, arrested in March, has not but been charged, authorities mentioned.
Godoy is suspected of being one among at the very least two shooters to open fireplace on the celebration. Police consider one of many victims was mistaken for a rival gang member, however that nobody that was struck by gunfire truly had any gang ties. The brothers had referred to as a father or mother to select them up from the celebration so that they wouldn’t break their curfews shortly earlier than they had been killed round 10 p.m., authorities say.
Godoy, who turned 18 only one month after the capturing, was charged in juvenile courtroom. Prosecutors haven't but made a ultimate resolution whether or not to maneuver to strive him as an grownup, however new District Legal professional Pamela Worth pledged to not cost juveniles in grownup courtroom throughout her profitable 2022 marketing campaign.
The capturing occurred at a home celebration at an Airbnb rental house on the 900 block of Apgar Avenue in North Oakland, police say. The suspected shooters are alleged to be a part of a subset of a Northern California avenue gang based mostly in Oakland.
Through the investigation, police arrested the second suspected shooter, who was additionally 17 on the time, on suspicion of possessing an assault rifle present in a guitar case after a police chase. Additionally they arrested 18-year-old Jesse Moreno on gun costs throughout the identical investigation, although Moreno has not been named as a suspect within the double murder case.
Authorities allege that Moreno belongs to the identical Norteño subset as Godoy and the second teen homicide suspect. On Jan. 23, a number of members of the subset had been additionally current at a music video shoot held in Oakland for Acito, a Stockton rapper, the place one individual was killed and 6 others had been injured in a mass capturing. Authorities mentioned gunfire erupted after alleged members of a rival Sureño subset occurred by the video shoot and opened fireplace, inflicting at the very least one individual within the crowd to shoot again.