‘Do you want me to shoot them?’ Five months after acquittal in murder case, Richmond man charged with home invasion robbery in San Pablo

Anthony Timmons, 26, allegedly pointed a gun at one of the three victims and asked a second robber, "Do you want me to shoot them?"

SAN PABLO — Two West Contra Costa residents, including a man who was acquitted of murder five months ago, are set to go on trial in connection with an armed home invasion robbery, court records show.

Anthony Timmons, 26, was acquitted in May on charges he aided and abetted the murder of a 66-year-old man in 2015. In October, Timmons and 25-year-old Kameron Wilson were both charged with first-degree residential robbery and gun possession in connection with a robbery at a San Pablo home on Van Ness Street, court records show.

Timmons was additionally charged with assault with a semiautomatic firearm for allegedly pointing a gun at one of three victims and asking Wilson, “Do you want me to shoot them?” One of the victims begged for their lives and the robbers left, police said.

Timmons and Wilson are set to go on trial on Jan. 8, court records show.

The three victims were robbed of several hundred dollars in cash, a small amount of Honduran currency, as well as gold jewelry on Oct. 7. When police searched an Audi containing Timmons, Wilson and a third man the following day, they found several of the victims’ possession as well as 20 MDMA tabs, roughly two ounces of suspected fentanyl and a firearm, according to court records.

The Audi was also associated with an earlier theft at a Safeway in Castro Valley, where roughly $2,600 in liquor was stolen, but no charges have been filed in that incident, authorities said.

Timmons’ arrest came just five months after his release from jail, where he had spent the previous seven years awaiting charges that he murdered 66-year-old Carl Roberts in Richmond. When the trial finally came, Timmons was acquitted and released. At the time, his attorney believed him to be the “Contra Costa jail’s longest resident when he was released.”

Prosecutors argued that he and co-defendant Antoine Saucer killed Roberts after mistaking him for a witness against Saucer in an unrelated murder case. Saucer was convicted of both murders in a separate, earlier trial, and sentenced to life in prison.

Both Timmons and Wilson are in jail while the case is pending, court records show.