OAKLAND — A 45-year-old man allegedly shot and killed another man outside the Lake Merritt BART station this week after an apparent dispute over an electric scooter, court documents show.
Juan Martinez, the alleged shooter, has been charged with murder, felony criminal threats and several sentencing enhancements, and he remains held at Santa Rita Jail without bail. Martinez was taken into custody on Tuesday, about an hour and a half after the shooting.
The Alameda County Coroner’s Office as of Friday afternoon had yet to identify the man killed in the shooting. He was shot in the back and declared dead shortly after BART police were dispatched, according to court papers.
Before the shooting, investigators say Martinez appeared to spend several minutes arguing with the victim near the BART station’s street-level elevator, according to court documents.
Surveillance footage shows Martinez pull a handgun from his backpack and try loading it before putting it back in his bag, the court documents say. When the man Martinez had been arguing with walked past him again, Martinez then stood up and shot him, police alleged in court papers.
A person later contacted BART police to say that Martinez had showed up at his house and spoke of shooting someone after that person had tried to steal his electric scooter, court papers say. Martinez did not speak to police after being detained.
On the same day and around the same time, another man was shot and killed in Oakland at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline boat launch on Doolittle Drive, near the Oakland International Airport. That shooting remains under investigation and no arrests have been announced.