OAKLAND — An Oakland man who faces two murder charges for shootings years apart was convicted of one of them at a January jury trial, court records show.
Otis Wyatt, 25, was convicted of second degree murder and gun enhancements in the 2016 shooting death of Darrell Daniel. He faces 15 years to life on the murder conviction alone, but the gun enhancements could tack on decades to the sentence.
Wyatt is due back in court in March, where one of two things will happen: He will receive a trial date for his second murder charge, or the judge and attorneys will kick the can further down the road.
During trial, Wyatt’s attorney argued another man killed Daniel and police took the word of unreliable informants.
Wyatt is also charged with fatally shooting 20-year-old Craig Fletcher-Cooks at an Oakland birthday party in 2016, two months before Daniel was killed. Wyatt was 19 at the time of both killings. Terrence McCrary, 22, was also killed during the party shooting, but no charges have been filed in his death.
Daniel was shot and killed a little before 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 21, 2016, in the 1700 block of 11th Street in Oakland. A police witness later told authorities that Wyatt — using the stage name O Dog — was in a rap group called Up Gang and that two of his fellow group members were present for the murder, according to court records.
The informant claimed another member of the group was originally going to kill Daniel, but instead handed the gun to Wyatt. At the time of his arrest, police identified Wyatt as an associate of a gang based in Campbell Village in West Oakland.
Wyatt’s sentencing date has not yet been set.
Source: www.mercurynews.com