OAKLAND — A Berkeley man was sentenced to seven years in state jail for dousing a person’s head in gasoline and setting it on hearth in what police known as a random assault.
Bradley Marcrum, 26, pleaded no contest to assault with a lethal weapon in a cope with Alameda County prosecutors, who dismissed tried homicide prices in opposition to him. He was given credit score for about two years behind bars and despatched to Avenal State Jail in April, information present.
Marcrum was arrested and charged in late June 2023 after the assault close to College Avenue and Bonar Avenue. Police mentioned on the time that he doused a 68-year-old man’s head in gasoline and set it on hearth, seemingly selecting the sufferer at random. The person suffered severe burns and required pores and skin grafts, however survived.
A day earlier, Marcrum was positioned in a psychological well being maintain in San Francisco after he threatened to leap off a constructing. He was briefly hospitalized however launched after a psychological analysis decided he wasn’t a menace to himself or others, in accordance with authorities.
Marcrum was recognized as a suspect as a result of surveillance footage from a close-by Shell gasoline station confirmed him buying $10 of gasoline and placing it right into a crimson one-gallon container, whereas carrying garments just like these described by eyewitnesses to the assault, police mentioned.
