Double Murder: Charges Filed In Dublin Man's Death

DUBLIN, CA — An Oakland man has been charged with two counts of murder and the special circumstance of committing multiple murders for allegedly fatally shooting two men last month during an argument over the sale of an assault rifle, police and prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Ronyae Haywood, 26, was arraigned on Tuesday for the shooting deaths of Duane Palmer Jr., 28, of Oakland, and Dalton Kline, 27, of Dublin, in a car in the parking lot of the Grocery Outlet store in the 2100 block of East 14th Street at about 11 p.m. on March 13.

Haywood, who's being held at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail, is scheduled to return to court on Friday to possibly enter a plea.

Haywood's girlfriend, Angel Shavers, 20, of Oakland, was arraigned on a felony charge alleging that she furnished the assault rifle to Haywood as well as being an accessory after the fact.

San Leandro police said Shavers admitted that she was involved in the killings because she set up the sale of an assault rifle between Haywood and Palmer, who didn't know each other, and was present when the shootings happened.

Police said Haywood and Shavers met with Palmer, Kline and two other men in the Grocery Outlet parking lot to complete the sale of the assault rifle but during the transaction Haywood and Palmer got into an argument Palmer tried to flee in his vehicle but as he was driving away Haywood fired multiple rounds into the vehicle, striking both Palmer and Kline, who was in a rear passenger seat, police said.

The two other men who were in the vehicle with Palmer and Kline weren't hit by the gunfire and fled the scene on foot, although one of the men was able to fire two shots at Haywood that missed, San Leandro police officer Timothy Perry wrote in a probable cause statement.

Detectives eventually were able to identify Haywood and Shavers as the suspects in the shooting through cell phone records and they were arrested without incident in the 7700 block of Bancroft Avenue in Oakland last Thursday, police said.

Officers served a search warrant in the 200 block of Warren Avenue in San Leandro in connection with the shooting but police didn't disclose what was found.

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