MARTINEZ — Two men have received wildly different prison terms for their involvement in a fatal shooting during a dice game in 2020, court records show.
Alfonzo Blake pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 24 years in prison in the May 2020 shooting death of 37-year-old Kenneth McClain Jr., of Vallejo. Blake’s co-defendant, Omari Anderson, was sentenced to six years after pleading no contest to assault with a firearm, court records show.
The plea deals were finalized in late August, records show. Blake was charged as the actual shooter, while prosecutors alleged that Anderson had helped instigate the homicide.
Police said at the time that a dispute arose around 1:30 a.m. on May 18, 2020, during dice game near the Twin Creek Apartment in the 1100 block of James Donlon Boulevard in Antioch. McClain was shot several times.
Unlike Anderson, Blake was also charged with shooting a 23-year-old man who survived and robbing him of his gold chain.
Police say Blake is a member of a Vallejo gang that is based on the 1800 block of Ohio Street there. The gang has been linked to several violent crimes around the Bay Area, including gun battles in Vallejo, a freeway shooting in Lafayette and the armed robbery of an Alameda County judge two blocks away from a downtown Oakland courthouse last year.