Oakland teen charged with murder outside store where police say he was known to sell pot
OAKLAND — An 18-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a hectic September shootout involving at least three gunmen, court records show.
Keyante Reed, of Oakland and Lathrop, was charged with murder in connection with a Sept. 7 shootout outside of a store on the corner of E Street and 105th Avenue in Oakland. It is a store where witnesses reportedly told police Reed was known to sell marijuana, according to court records.
The victim of the shooting has been identified in court records as 50-year-old Lamar Payne, but his first name apparently has several spellings. Prosecutors spelled it “Lamor” and an online fundraiser page for Payne spells it “Lamore.”
The online fundraiser says Payne left behind “his wife, children, mother, siblings, and a host of family and friends.”
It is unclear whether Payne was the intended target or an innocent bystander. Police say that at least two gunmen began shooting at someone outside the store a little after 8 p.m., and that someone returned fire. Another man — a customer buying items inside the store — heard the shots, pulled his own gun and rushed outside, but ended up simply fleeing the area, according to authorities.
Police now say that Reed has been identified as one of the men who fired, and they’re still working to arrest the second suspect. Reed turned 18 just six weeks before the homicide, court records show.
The third man — the customer who was seen on surveillance video with a gun — was identified as 21-year-old Tamarkus Killensworth. He was arrested on Sept. 18 on suspicion of gun possession, and has been charged with possessing a firearm found in a car he “had been observed accessing” shortly before his arrest, prosecutors wrote in court filings. Killensworth has posted $150,000 bail and been released.
Exactly one month after the fatal shooting, Reed allegedly robbed two women of cash and a bag of painkiller pills on the 1600 block of 61st Avenue. One of the women allegedly told police that she not only knew Reed as a drug dealer who hung out in the area where Payne was killed, but claimed that Reed had confessed to killing someone outside the store sometime after the shooting, authorities said.
Reed was arrested in mid-October, in Lathrop, and booked into Santa Rita Jail on suspicion of robbery and murder. He is being held without bail, but his lawyer has set a hearing for Nov. 6 to argue that Reed should be released, court records show.
During the Sept. 7 shootout, a man who was driving by the area suffered minor injuries when bullets struck his vehicle and caused broken glass to cut his face, police said.