A California sheriff’s deputy was arraigned Friday in connection with the execution-style shooting deaths of a married couple.
Devin Williams Jr., 24, a deputy with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, stands accused of two charges of murder, intentional discharge of a firearm causing death, and two “special circumstance” forms of murder (namely, a multiple murder and a murder to avoid arrest). That’s according to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.
A complaint filed in Alameda County Superior Court sketches out the charges using legalistic detail, but the document contains very few facts.
On Sept. 7, 2022, almost an hour past midnight, Dublin Police Services responded to a call about a double shooting inside of a residence on Colebrook Lane. Responding officers found a wife and husband, later identified as 42-year-old Maria Tran and 57-year-old Benison Tran, dead inside the large stucco house they once called home.
“The reporting party called 911, and someone they did not know was inside their residence,” the probable cause affidavit for the defendant’s arrest says. “One of the residents picked up the phone and advised the suspect was armed with a firearm, and the suspect shot his sister and his brother-in-law.”