OAKLAND — Nearly nine years after they avoided murder charges in a Richmond triple shooting, a Bay Area man and woman have been charged with felonies in a recent Oakland homicide, records show.
Evan Greene, 32, of Richmond, was charged with murder and gun possession in the Jan. 14 killing of 23-year-old Jerome Hunter. Prosecutors also charged 28-year-old Coraneshea Savage, of Vallejo, with accessory after the fact.
Hunter was shot and killed at a homeless camp on 23rd Avenue and East 12th Street in Oakland, authorities said. Police believe that Greene and Savage pulled up in a vehicle, briefly argued with Hunter and that Greene shot him before Savage drove them away.
The shooting was almost immediately followed by a police chase, when responding officers were pointed toward an Acura that was fleeing the area of the shooting. The Acura crashed, but the woman inside turned out to be cooperative and wasn’t a suspect in the shooting, authorities said.
Police believe that Hunter and the woman had noticed the Acura in the area earlier in the day, assumed it was an abandoned stolen car, and commandeered it for the day. It is unknown if the motive for the shooting had to do with the misappropriation of the Acura or some other matter.
Savage and Greene were both arrested in connection with a 2015 homicide in Richmond, where 20-year-old Keven Hall was killed and two other people were wounded. But prosecutors never filed a case, in part because of conflicting witness statements and disagreements over who fired the fatal shots, authorities said.
In the 2015 shooting, one witness told police that Savage had threatened one of the victims with a metal pipe and sprayed them with bleach, while another claimed Greene was the shooter. Prosecutors declined to file charges against either of them, and returned the case to Richmond police, who never brought it back to the Contra Costa District Attorney’s office, authorities said.
Greene and Savage were both arrested the same day as the January shooting. They remain in Santa Rita Jail, where they’re being held without bail, records show.