Oakland: One murder suspect takes life sentence, second gets 6 years in 2019 drive-by
OAKLAND — Two suspects in a 2019 fatal drive-by shooting have accepted plea deals with drastically different results.
Pablo Carrillo, 35, has pleaded no contest to manslaughter and will be sentenced to six years in state prison, a sentence he’ll be allowed to serve entirely in the county jail, according to court records.
His co-defendant, Walter Calmo-Perez, 23, pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and will soon be shipped off to state prison, perhaps for the rest of his life.
Calmo-Perez and Carrillo were charged in 2019 with murdering Sleyter Ramirez-Jimenez, 22, of San Leandro, in an Oakland drive-by shooting. Carrillo was identified as the driver while police believe Calmo-Perez was the shooter.
Ramirez-Jimenez was murdered while attending a baptism party at around 11:55 p.m. on Jan. 19, 2019, at a residence on the 2000 block of 22nd Avenue. He and dozens of other guests were there celebrating the baptism of a child earlier in the day.
The case was solved through witness statements and surveillance footage, police say. When Calmo-Perez was arrested, officers allegedly found methamphetamine and a gun in his possession.
Calmo-Perez was formally sentenced to 15 years to life on June 26, and remains in Santa Rita Jail pending transfer to the state prison system. Carrillo, by contrast, is slated to be sentenced in March 2024. By then, he will have served the entirety of his sentence when credit for good behavior is factored in.