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Investigators began linking the crimes shortly after the death of Sunny Thach, who was robbed of $31 and shot to death on Jan. 6 as he carried his toddler's laundry from his car to his home on Sixth Avenue near Lake Merritt...
Sgt. Ersie Joyner III told Sethna the Buick may have been used by several young men who pulled up to a crowded West Oakland street corner on Dec. 18 and sprayed lethal gunfire, killing Douglas Ware, 19...
The first slaying took place Oct. 24. Police said Demarcus Ralls admitted to killing Joseph Mabry, 36, a youth basketball coach who was having an affair with Dorsey-Colbert, who admitted she helped set up the shooting...
Wiley... apparently got in an argument with a neighbor. On Wiley's orders, Demarcus told police, he and Joe Ralls opened fire into the front door of an apartment at 871 Campbell St., where a holiday celebration was taking place... Keith Macki, 14, was shot in the head... Jerry Duckworth, 24, a family friend who tried to save the boy as a hail of gunfire burst out, died when he was struck six times.
Leon Wiley laughed as an Alameda County Superior Court Judge today ordered the 30-year old to spend the rest of his life in prison...
Originally, the Alameda County district attorney's office sought the death penalty against Wiley and other Nut Case members; however, the office changed its mind after a jury refused to give the first Nut Case member the death penalty
Nevertheless, at least three of the gang members have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the numerous crimes they committed in 2003. Others were sentenced to lesser terms after they took plea deals or were found not to have committed the most serious felonies.