The 20-year-old man allegedly pulled a rifle on the victim then shot him in the head from a short distance away.
MARTINEZ — A month after Concord police identified him as the shooter in a March homicide, a 20-year-old man was arrested on murder charges and booked in a Contra Costa jail, court records show.
Amanaki’s co-defendant, 19-year-old Haley Sparks-Hadsell, of Martinez, just hours after the March 21 homicide, which occurred at the Solano Plaza. Both are charged with murdering and robbing Cavazos during a brief altercation outside of a shoe store at the shopping center. Using area surveillance footage and eyewitnesses, police were able to show that Amanaki travelled to his Concord home immediately after the shooting, according to authorities. When officers went there looking for him he was gone, but a relative identified him in a still of the surveillance footage, police say.
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