There has finally been an arrest in the 2008 murder of a young San Francisco man who was getting ready to get married the next day, and the suspect was found in LA.
The killing happened on the night of April 27, 2008 on the 500 block of Fulton Street, at the edge of the Western Addition neighborhood. The victim was 28-year-old Jason Mosely, whose fiancee was pregnant at the time, and he was preparing to tie the knot with her the next day at City Hall, as the Chronicle reports.
Mosely was reportedly at the home of his grandmother on Fulton Street, along with his mother, around 6 pm on that April night, when the doorbell rang. Mosely went to answer it, and as his mother, Selina Arceneaux, described it to the Examiner, she heard gunshots as soon as her son went outside.
The family was left only to believe that this was a case of mistaken identity, and Arceneaux said her son, who worked as a desk attendant at the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, was not affiliated with any gang, or involved in crime.
As the SFPD explains in a release, long after the case went cold, the SFPD's Cold Case Unit identified a 40-year-old suspect, Derreyl Goode, whom they tracked to Las Vegas, where he has been living.
More recently, he was apparently in Los Angeles, which is where US Marshals arrested him on Monday, August 17, under a Ramey arrest warrant — in California, a Ramey warrant is one issued by a judge before prosecutors have formally filed charges.
Goode was booked under the existing murder warrant by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and he was met there by investigators from the SFPD Cold Case Unit.
Although an arrest has been made, this is still an active investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the SFPD tip line at 415-575-4444, or text a tip to TIP411 and begin the message with “SFPD.” Tipsters can remain anonymous.

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