Suspect confessed to 3 Bay Area killings, court documents say
OAKLAND — The suspect in three Bay Area fatal shootings last month, who has been in custody in Nevada after a shootout with deputies there, confessed to the killings, according to court documents released Thursday.
The confession was revealed in a probable cause document filed Thursday along with a criminal complaint that charges Stefon Jefferson 43, with three counts of special circumstance murder and other counts in the vengeance-fueled five-hour spree April 26.
According to the documents, Jefferson admitted killing the three men when he was interviewed by Oakland, San Francisco and UC Berkeley police in Nevada following his arrest hours after the shootings.
No motive for the killings was included in the documents.
Jefferson was charged with killing his cousin Marcus Jackson, 57, of Richmond, about 10:15 a.m. April 26 in the 4100 block of Market Street in West Oakland after an argument in which he threatened to kill him, the documents say. He fled in Jackson’s Toyota after the shooting.
He is also charged with killing Laron Davis, 49, in San Francisco about 1:30 p.m. April 26 and with killing Calvin Kelly, 43, about 3 p.m. April 26 at People’s Park in Berkeley.
Authorities have said Jefferson knew all three men and had grudges against them.
Besides the murder counts, Jefferson also was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition by a prohibited person, and making criminal threats. The special circumstance allegations are multiple murders and lying in wait in relation to the Jackson killing.
An alert for Jefferson was issued after the killings, and he was spotted driving the Toyota in South Lake Tahoe about 9:45 p.m. that day. He was pursued into Douglas County, Nevada, where he got into a shootout with sheriff’s deputy; a sheriff’s sergeant and Jefferson both were wounded in the incident. Jefferson was arrested after crashing the car.
He has been charged with multiple felony counts in Nevada and remains in custody there on $1 million bail.
According to court documents, Jefferson has a prior assault with a deadly weapon conviction in San Francisco in 2001, for which he received a prison term; and a 1998 conviction in San Francisco for receiving stolen property, for which he also received a prison term.
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