SAN FRANCISCO — An El Cerrito man has pleaded guilty to the 2019 San Francisco killing of a man deemed to be his romantic rival, authorities said.
Hakim Oden, 25, received a sentence of 50 years-to-life after pleading guilty to first-degree murder and admitting to the enhancement of using a gun, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said in a statement Monday. In the plea, Oden admitting to killing a co-worker at the San Francisco Conservation Corps, Jenkins said.
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The killing happened while Oden awaited trial on a 2016 robbery that happened at San Francisco’s Phillip Burton Federal Building at 450 Golden Gate Avenue. Jenkins said Oden pleaded guilty to that charge and was sentenced to three years in state prison to run concurrently.
According to court records, Oden committed the murder on March 25, 2019, the victim’s 19th birthday and his first day at the SFCC. Oden had been sent to the SFCC following the 2016 robbery.
Jenkins said Oden admitted to waiting in a car outside the SFCC site on the 200 block of 13th Street until he saw the victim with a woman that Oden wanted. Jenkins said Oden followed them into the building with his hood up and his hands in his hoodie pocket, walked up behind the victim, pulled a gun and shot him execution style in the back of the head.
Oden then fled to his car with his gun, sped out of the parking lot and fled San Francisco, Jenkins said. The California Highway Patrol arrested him following what authorities called a shootout in Riverside County. Nobody was injured in the shootout, authorities said.
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