22-year-old Darnell Williams was ordered to stand trial Monday in the shooting death of an innocent 8-year-old girl and in injuring three other people, including two other children, last July. The murder occurred in the course of a revenge shooting that was actually targeting those two other children.
You may recall the story of 8-year-old Alaysha Carradine, who was shot in the neck on the night of July 17 during a sleepover in the relatively quiet Dimond District of East Oakland. Assailants fired shots through the screen door at the front of the apartment, also injuring a 4-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl, as well as their 68-year-old grandmother.
As the Oakland Tribune reports:
Prosecutors allege that the shooting was in retaliation for the shooting death of 26-year-old Jermaine Davis, which happened several hours earlier in the 1800 block of Derby Street in Berkeley. Davis was Carroll's cousin and a close friend of Williams, according to Oakland police.Antiowne York, 25, of Pittsburg, was charged last week with murder in Davis' death.
Prosecutors [believe] that Williams and [his accomplice Joseph Carroll] went to the apartment ... because they believed it was where the mother of York's two children lived. The two children wounded in the shooting are York's children, prosecutors said.
Carroll, initially a co-defendant in this case, had charges against him dropped in the murder of the girl due to insufficient evidence of his role in the conspiracy, however he also remains in custody on other conspiracy charges for the attempted murder of a man in September.
Additionally, Williams will stand trial in a separate murder case, that of 22-year-old Anthony Medearis who was shot and killed in Berkeley in early September.
Previously: Oakland: 8-Year-Old Girl Shot, Killed During Sleepover
