OAKLAND — A local resident was sentenced to time he had already served and released from jail after pleading no contest to manslaughter in the 2022 shooting death of his brother, court records show.
Roni Jacinto, 21, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the death of his brother, 20-year-old Enrique Jacinto-Vicente, and was sentenced to four years in state prison. With his time spent behind bars and good behavior credits, Jacinto had already served his sentence and was released from jail on June 25, court records show.
Jacinto was originally charged with murder, but prosecutors dismissed that charge as part of the plea deal. His lawyer, Miki Tal, said the victim’s family is “fully supportive” of the plea deal.
“This was a fair resolution arising out of a tragic incident where my client’s brother was killed after a gun accidentally went off,” Tal said in an email.
The plea deal includes a probation sentence.
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At Jacinto’s 2022 preliminary hearing, Alameda County Judge Thomas Reardon said he had “not much confidence” in the version of what happened Jacinto told to police, and that it seemed “odd” Jacinto-Vicente would have been shot squarely in the chest during an argument.
Police testified during the hearing that witnesses reported a gun went off while the two were intoxicated and arguing, but that they didn’t see exactly what happened. The eyewitnesses all admitted to drinking alcohol or smoking marijuana at the time, according to authorities.
Jacinto’s name came up in other homicide investigations, including when a witness reported that he’d been ejected from a Richmond party that was later shot up by two other men, resulting in three deaths and four injuries. Police also attempted to tie Jacinto to the killing of a woman who was lured to the Oakland Hills and fatally shot — reportedly to keep her from talking to police about the Richmond shooting — but no charges were ever filed against Jacinto in that case.