Major Willis was charged with murdering 52-year-old Kon Woo Fung during an attempted robbery, until a judge threw out the murder case due to a 2019 law change.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – JULY 17: Oakland police investigate a homicide on 13th Avenue between East 20th and 21st Streets in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, July 17, 2022. OAKLAND — Months after a judge tossed the murder case against one of two suspects in the killing of a local Uber driver, prosecutors reached a plea agreement that will result in a two-and-a-half-year prison term, court records show.
Willis’ co-defendant, 18-year-old Tristen Bengco, was charged in juvenile court because he was 17 at the time Fung was killed. Prosecutors say that on the morning of July 17, 2022 the two ran up to Fung’s parked vehicle on East 22nd Street, attempted to force him out of his car, and that Bengco killed him during the attempt. The pair abandoned the robbery and fled after the shot rang out.
Prosecutors, in their response motion, argued that Willis and Bengco were “on the same page” about how to carry out the robbery, including the use of the gun. After the killing, Willis and Bengco ran away and ended up ditching their car in San Francisco in an attempt to distance themselves from the suspect vehicle. In doing so, they both made a choice not to help Fung as he lay dying of a gunshot wound, prosecutors argued.
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