Charles King Jr. was a 37-year-old Oakland father of four and a railroad conductor, known to friends and family as Scrappy and Chucky. Those who knew him described him as funny, kind, giving, and a wonderful father.

Shortly after midnight on February 12, 2020, King was outside a liquor store on the 1400 block of 85th Avenue in East Oakland. A witness reported King was acting antagonistically and yelling at passersby and that he got into a confrontation with a man named Ahmad Wyatt, knocking him to the ground. Prosecutors allege Wyatt returned minutes later with another man, Andre Heard, and both men shot King multiple times. Police found King alive but he died before he could identify his shooters.

No solid leads emerged for nearly four years until an eyewitness came forward with new information and surveillance footage corroborated the presence of two suspects. On February 14, 2024, Ahmad Wyatt was arrested in Oakland and, two weeks later, Andre Heard was arrested in San Francisco on unrelated charges; both were charged with murder and held without bail. Wyatt initially pleaded not guilty.

Did anyone who knew Charles or who was in that neighborhood that night see something that could help explain what led to the shooting?