Oakland police arrest suspect in fatal shooting of 28-year-old man

OAKLAND — A 59-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with an Oct. 11 shooting outside a grouping of parked trailers, court records show.

Police say that Victor Aguilar, of Oakland, became enraged with 28-year-old Hector Martinez over allegations of infidelity between Martinez and a woman who lived in a nearby mobile home, leading to a heated confrontation between the two that afternoon. Martinez allegedly slapped Aguilar during the argument, and later lifted his shirt and dared Aguilar to shoot him, an eyewitness allegedly told police.

Aguilar was identified by multiple witnesses, and it turned out police already had a photograph of him to present to eyewitnesses — police had taken a picture of Aguilar while conducting surveillance on the home of Enrique Campos-Patino, a suspect in the unrelated Oct. 10 killing of 33-year-old Albert Servin-Ortega. Prosecutors later charged Campos-Patino, 40, and Lester Villatorro, 32, in connection with Servin-Ortega’s killing.

Martinez was fatally shot around 4:45 p.m. on Oct. 11, near where Kerwin Avenue meets Knight Street in Brookfield Village, police said. His body was found near a parked trailer that had also been struck by gunfire.

In the aftermath of the shooting, rumors swirled among the local mobile home residents as to who was responsible, police say, but multiple people told police that Aguilar was the shooter. More than one claimed Aguilar had confessed responsibility to them, authorities said.

Aguilar was arrested Nov. 2 in Oakland. During a subsequent police interview, he was “admonished and he confessed to the shooting,” an Oakland police detective wrote in court papers. He remains jailed without bail and is next due in court Nov. 28 to enter a plea, according to court records.