Posted on 08/27/2023 2:43:25 AM PDT by grundle
ALAMEDA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Alameda County prosecutors have informed a San Leandro mother that the teenage gang member who shot and killed her son in January will be back on the streets in as little as four years.
She contacted ABC7 News to find out why the 17-year-old gunman was not being tried as an adult for the murder. In addition to the mother and several sources inside the district attorney's office, we were able to speak with a witness who was in the parked car, just inches away, when Lamar Converse died.
Kasandra Riley described her son, 35-year-old Lamar Converse, as "a loving person" who "would give you the shirt off his back."
She lost Lamar the night of Jan. 30. She even heard the gunfire a little over a block away, and since then, she's been afraid to leave her home.
Kasandra Riley: "I get afraid. I get afraid. I'd be afraid."
Dan Noyes: "Are you now afraid more going outside than you were before?"
Riley: "All the time. I actually went to the nail shop down the street and had to call somebody to pick me up because I was nervous. I was scared."
That Monday night just before 11, Lamar asked his friend to give him a ride to meet a young woman who wanted to buy two ounces of marijuana. The driver met ABC7 News I-Team reporter Dan Noyes at the scene and told him from behind the wheel of his car, "So, I pull on this side, the girl walks from the corner and Lamar roll down his window. He's talking to her about the transaction of the weed."
Sources inside the DA's Office verified his story saying, Lamar met the 18-year-old woman online. They set a meeting at 167th Avenue and East 14th Street in San Leandro. She traveled there with her 17-year-old friend. Authorities say he's a member of Oakland's Ghost Town gang, and that she tried to use counterfeit money.
The driver said Lamar started counting, "He goes like 20, 40, and then he looked at the money like, 'This money fake.'"
Surveillance video from a used car lot shows Lamar Converse arguing with the woman, and then her 17-year-old friend rushing up with a handgun.
"All I see is the gun," said the driver. "He like, the dude walked to the car, like, 'Give me everything. Tear it off.' (makes gun sounds) He starts shooting. He never reached for nothing. Mar never made a move. We didn't have no guns on us. We ain't, we wasn't - nothing going on funny with us. No, we was just trying to get his money and we was gonna go back home."
Three weeks later, Alameda County Sheriff's investigators arrested the 17-year-old. One prosecutor told the I-Team the shooter confessed, that it was a "rock-solid case" for transfer to adult court, and not a robbery, but "a planned hit".
But, ABC7 News was there Monday at the Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro when the DA's Office announced a deal. The teen admitted murder in the 2nd degree with personal and intentional discharge of a firearm, but he won't receive the 40-year-to-life prison sentence he could face if tried as an adult. The case remains in juvenile court.
"That's heartbreaking to hear them say they want to try him as a juvenile," Riley said.
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price wants to let the murderer out after just four years.
Price is evil. There is no other explanation for what she is doing.
Video of the murder as aired by ABC7 News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chOa3Cwh6v4
Pamela Price is also a member of the Ghost Town gang - just like Kenosha prosecutors Thomas Binger and James Kraus were members of Antifa who attacked Kyle Rittenhouse in the courtroom.
We are being manipulated by Soros and his lousy, incompetent prosecutors.
It’s beginning to look like a lot of our “justice system” lawyers and judges are gangbangers, domestic terrorists and cartel employees.
They are doing it to pave the way for a federal police force. This is absolutely necessary for the establishment of a Marxist dictatorship. Control must be at the top...not with state and local governments and judiciaries.
Not incompetent, subversive.
Their job is to destabilize and remake the justice system to use it against the law abiding. We are no longer equal before the law where they have been elected.
The criminals get off pretty much free and are free to prey on others while those who fight back are hit with the full weight of whatever law they can throw at you.
In this case this Mom is just a victim to their broader agenda of legal terrorism.
Hold up, i see at least 4 strikes right there.
Late at night,
shady neighborhood,
can anyone else see the other 2 strikes against 35 Y.O. Lamar?
If someone killed my kid and they were let out after 4 years that would be fine by me because it would give me the opportunity to burn the bastard alive, bring out the marshmallows, we are having a barbeque.
You guys are all correct! It’s just so obvious now what they are doing! Can it be stopped somehow? Lord help us all!
You are entirely correct.
Existing decentralized structures must be allowed to fail so the public not only accepts, but demands, the promised safety and security of new centralized structures.
Demonizing the competent, and installing the incompetent and corrupt, is essential for the failure of the decentralized model.
Black Live Matter, only when it is convenient
“can anyone else see the other 2 strikes against 35 Y.O. Lamar?”
You mean... like the fact that Lamar was a drug dealer... and that drug deals go ‘bad’ all the time? It kinda goes with the gig and the territory.
Actually this gives the family or friends of the deceased four years to arrange a fatal accident that will occur soon after the perp walks out of jail. Four years to find an entity that can produce such an accident, four years to cover the money trail, etc.
Another consideration ... after all the arrangements have been made, maybe slip the jail-bird a short note that suggests he might be safer in the clink. That would make for an interesting parole hearing. The board will be trying to cut the perp loose and the perp will be begging for more jail time.
Vengeance is a dish best served cold.
4 years of 3 hots and a cot for killing someone? Not a bad gig if you ask me. Winner winner chicken dinner for that guy.
Bingo. That is exactly how this should be viewed.
All I see is a turf war between drug dealers.
Would not be surprised if Price was in on the drug “proceeds”. This happens ALL THE TIME wherever the Pygmy cannibals are in charge (i.e. Detroit, Baltimore, Memphis, St. Louis, New Orleans, Atlanta, Milwaukee, etc.)
And see you in only four years.
Unless you are a R, of course.
Then you will be getting bread and water while in solitary confinement for 40 years.
Drug dealer and drug deal gone bad. But you missed the Scott Adams angle.
“Drug dealer and drug deal gone bad. But you missed the Scott Adams angle.”
It’s early and I haven’t had my caffeine fix yet.
Bkmk
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