An El Cerrito man has been sentenced to 50-years-to-life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering his coworker in San Francisco's Bayview District in 2019, prosecutors said.
An El Cerrito man has been sentenced to 50-years-to-life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering his coworker in San Francisco in 2019, prosecutors said.District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced Monday that 25-year-old Hakim Oden pled guilty to first degree murder in the killing of 19-year-old Taiepisi Gutu.'While nothing we do can bring the victim back, I hope that this outcome brings a measure of closure and healing to his friends and family,' Jenkins said in a statement.
Prosecutors said he followed them into the building, with his hood up and his hand in his pocket. He then walked up behind Gutu and shot him in the back of the head. According to reports at the time, the victim died from his injuries at the hospital.Following the shooting, Oden sped out of the parking lot and fled San Francisco to Southern California. He was eventually apprehended following a shootout with CHP officers in Riverside County, near the Arizona border.
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