Marcus Jackson, 57, was a longtime Berkeley Public Works employee and union shop steward remembered by co-workers and neighbors as hard-working and full of life. On the morning of April 26, 2019, after finishing a graveyard shift he was returning to his Market Street home in West Oakland. His cousin, Stefon Jefferson, was waiting on the front porch; following an argument in which Jefferson allegedly threatened to kill him, Jackson was fatally shot multiple times in his driveway. Jefferson then stole Jackson’s Toyota and ran over him as he fled.

That day Jackson was the first of three men killed in a violent multi-city rampage that also claimed Laron Davis in San Francisco and Calvin Kelly in Berkeley. Authorities pursued Jefferson later that night near South Lake Tahoe into Douglas County, Nevada; he exchanged gunfire with deputies, wounding a sergeant in the hand, and was wounded before being taken into custody. In a Nevada interview he confessed to killing all three men.

The Alameda County District Attorney charged Jefferson with three counts of murder, alleging special circumstances of multiple murder and lying in wait in Jackson’s killing, plus weapons-related and threat charges; Nevada prosecuted him first. If anyone knew Marcus Jackson, his routines, or has information about the events leading to that morning, please share what is known.