OAKLAND — The suspect in a current murder was out on bail on the time, awaiting trial in a Solano County case alleging he rammed a Vallejo cop who then shot him within the face, courtroom data present.
Jamazea Kittell, 31, was charged Wednesday with murdering 23-year-old Kalief Perez-Chambers on July 9, in a capturing on the 9400 block of C Road in Oakland. After the capturing, Kittell allegedly went south, getting so far as the San Bernardino County city of Apple Valley earlier than police tracked him down and arrested him.
Kittell is being held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin with out bail. He faces prices of killing Perez-Chambers, capturing an unoccupied automobile, and possessing weapons and ammunition as a felon. Kittell was set to go on trial in September on prices that he rammed Vallejo police Officer Brad Kim, who then shot Kittell within the face throughout the June 27, 2023 incident.
The Solano County case proved controversial. Whereas the Vallejo police division has confronted a litany of scandals in recent times — together with testimony from inside their very own ranks that officers celebrated on-duty shootings by pending their badges as a ceremonial reward — the prosecution additionally did not persuade Choose Robert Bowers that Kittell had tried to homicide Kim. The choose discovered that Kittell extra doubtless dedicated assault throughout the alleged ramming, noting that prosecutors should show intent in tried homicide circumstances.
In Perez-Chambers’ demise, police say the younger man — who registered an auto gross sales firm in Oakland three years in the past — and a pal had been engaged on a automobile within the residential space when Kittell pulled up in an Acura, opened hearth, then fled. Police had been capable of determine him by way of the Acura, which he just lately had taken to a service station and given staff his actual title, in line with courtroom data.
Investigators say additionally they recognized Kittell from media stories on the Kim capturing, which embrace pictures of Kittell in a wheelchair nonetheless recovering from his accidents. These images had been matched to surveillance footage from the murder, authorities mentioned.
Police haven’t launched the suspected motive. The person who was with Perez-Chambers throughout the capturing escaped harm, however police say he was bodily beneath the automobile and solely heard the photographs.
Kittell has two theft convictions in Alameda County, and a gun possession conviction in Contra Costa, which make it unlawful for him to have firearms, authorities mentioned.
