Police say the brothers had called a parent to pick them up so they didn’t break curfew, shortly before they were fatally shot by at least two suspected gang members.
OAKLAND — An 18-year-old has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with the October party shooting that killed two brothers and left two others hospitalized with injuries, authorities said.
Joaquin Godoy, of Oakland, was charged Tuesday with murdering brothers Jazy Sotelo Garcia, 17, and Angel Sotelo Garcia, 15, at the Oct. 1, 2022 house party. A second suspect,Godoy is suspected of being one of at least two shooters to open fire at the party. Police believe one of the victims was mistaken for a rival gang member, but that no one that was struck by gunfire actually had any gang ties.
Godoy, who turned 18 just one month after the shooting, was charged in juvenile court. Prosecutors have not yet made a final decision whether to move to try him as an adult but new District Attorney Pamela Price pledged to not charge juveniles in adult court during the 2022 campaign. The shooting occurred at around 10 p.m. on Oct. 1, at a house party at an Airbnb rental home on the 900 block of Apgar Street in North Oakland, police say, The suspected shooters are alleged to be part of a subset of a Northern California street gang based in Oakland., who was also 17 at the time, on suspicion of possessing an assault rifle found in a guitar case after a police chase.
Authorities allege that Moreno belongs to the same Norteño subset as Godoy and the second teen murder suspect. Several members of the subsetwere also present for a January mass shooting at a music video shoot in Oakland, for the Stockton rapper Acito. One person was killed and eight were injured, after alleged members of a rival Sureño subset happened by the video shoot and opened fire, causing at least one person in the crowd to shoot back.
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