OAKLAND — Nearly four years to the day after a 37-year-old man was gunned down here, police arrested a suspect.
Ahmad “Bubba” Wyatt, 45, of Oakland, was arrested at his Foothill Boulevard apartment on Feb. 14, almost exactly four years after police allege that he and a still-unidentified second gunman shot and killed 37-year-old Charles King Jr., also of Oakland. King was killed about 10 minutes after midnight on Feb. 12, on the 1400 block of 85th Avenue in East Oakland, police said at the time.
The case went unsolved for years, with no solid leads to the identity of the gunmen. But last year a new eyewitness came forward and identified Wyatt by his nickname, police said. Authorities say they were able to confirm Wyatt’s identity and that a U.S. Marshals task force arrested him at an apartment on the 600 block of Foothill Boulevard.
Surveillance footage of the shooting confirmed there were two suspects, police said.
The eyewitness reportedly told police that King, who went by “Scrappy,” had been acting antagonistically and yelling at passers-by outside of a liquor store near where he was killed. He and Wyatt allegedly had a confrontation, at which point King knocked him to the ground.
A few moments later, Wyatt and the second gunman allegedly produced guns and fired at King, who was struck multiple times. He was still alive when police arrive but failed to identify his killers, authorities said.
Wyatt is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. He did not enter a plea at his first court appearance Tuesday.