Former Air Force staff Steven Carrillo sergeant pleaded guilty earlier this in the May 2020 murder of David Patrick Underwood.
Highlights
- Steven Carrillo, 33, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a federal murder charge in the killing of David Patrick Underwood and the attempted murder of Underwood’s colleague.
- Carrillo admitted to posting messages on Facebook a day before the shooting asking anyone if they were “down to boogaloo” Carrillo also admitted firing 19 rounds from a homemade AR-15 rifle from the back of a white van being driven by a man he connected with online.
- The men were shot on May 29, 2020, while they stood in front of a federal building in Oakland as hundreds marched on the streets.
- The judge had warned that she could reject the plea agreement if she didn’t feel prosecutors did enough to justify the sentence.