OAKLAND — A person of interest has been arrested in the Jan. 4 fatal shooting of three men in West Oakland, police said Tuesday.
Because the male suspect has not yet been formally charged and since the investigation is still on-going, police are not releasing a name or providing any new details about the case or what led them to him.
Police plan to release more information about the case once the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office makes its decision about formal charges, which could happen Wednesday.
Law enforcement sources confirmed the man is 26 and was arrested Friday morning after a high speed police vehicle chase that ended with the suspect crashing into a power pole at Mountain Boulevard and Mountain View Avenue after exiting the Seminary Avenue exit from westbound Interstate 580 in the Oakland hills.
The shooting, which occurred just before 9 p.m. Jan. 4 in the 1000 block of Center Street, claimed the lives of Gino Houchins, 21, of Vallejo and Marcus Fuller Jr., 29, and Dante Johnson, 31, both of Oakland, police said Tuesday night. The three men knew each other.
Fuller and Houchins were sitting in a parked car and Johnson was standing outside the vehicle when they were shot. All three died at the scene.
It was the first triple homicide in Oakland since November 2016.