January 24, 2025 Oakland, CA – Today, Chief Assistant District Attorney Royl Roberts announced that a jury found Jacobi Gaines (23) guilty of first-degree murder for the death of Hassan Humphries (17). Mr. Gaines was also convicted of three counts of gun possession, carjacking, robbery, vehicle theft, and assault with a deadly weapon stemming from a six-week violent crime spree involving multiple victims in Alameda County. The conviction also includes enhancements for the use of a firearm, use of a deadly weapon, causing great bodily injury, and being a felon on probation at the time these crimes were committed.  The testimony and evidence presented at trial showed that Mr. Gaines began his crime spree on or about December 2, 2019, with an escalating series of carjackings, robberies, and thefts, which culminated in the murder of Hassan Humphries, who was unarmed when he suffered two gunshot…

January 22, 2025 OAKLAND, CA — Chief Assistant District Attorney Royl Roberts announces that David Misch (63) received two consecutive 25-year to life sentences for the murders of Jennifer Duey and Michelle Xavier in 1986.  On December 19, 2024, a jury found Mr. Misch guilty of one count of first-degree murder for killing Jennifer Duey, and one count of first-degree murder for killing Michelle Xavier. The naked bodies of both women were found in a remote area in Fremont on February 2, 1986. The evidence presented at the trial showed that DNA found under Jennifer Duey’s nails in 2001 belonged to Mr. Misch. In 2003, while serving a life sentence for a murder he committed in December of 1989, Mr. Misch claimed that he had seen the two young women being kidnapped at gunpoint and tried to save them. He used this as an explanation for the…