Steven Carrillo, 33, is accused of murdering police officers in a targeted Oakland assassination and an ambush in remote Santa Cruz County.
OAKLAND — Steven Carrillo, the ex-U.S. Air Force staff sergeant accused of murdering law enforcement officers in separate incidents in Oakland and Ben Lomond, is set to plead guilty in the killing of a federal security officer on Friday, court records show.Federal Protective Services Officer Dave Patrick Underwood in a May 2020 downtown Oakland drive-by shooting, and state charges of murdering Santa Cruz Sheriff Sgt.
The alleged driver, a Boogaloo-associated Bay Area man named Robert Alvin Justus, also faces federal charges of murdering Gutzwiller. Justus allegedly confessed to the FBI days after the Underwood killing, placing most of the blame on Carrillo. He even said he went along with the killing because he felt threatened, though surveillance footage shows him exiting Carrillo’s van, walking near the security booth where Underwood sat, then returning shortly before the shooting, according to the FBI.
In an early court appearance in 2020, shortly after he was mentioned at the Republican National Convention, Carrillo showed up wearing a mask with handwritten inscriptions. They read, “We the people,” and “BLM,” along with “Portland, Kenosha, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.”
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