Victim ID’d in wild Oakland shootout that left one dead, one injured

OAKLAND — Authorities have identified the man killed in a June 23 shootout between at least three people, and another man who survived a gunshot wound to the arm is now facing federal charges after homicide investigators arrested him, court records show.

Killed in the North Oakland shootout was 51-year-old Robert Ortega, who was dropped off at a hospital but died a short time later, authorities said. The surviving victim, 39-year-old Shunnee King, was arrested on suspicion of accessory the following week and is now facing charges of violating his supervised release in connection with a federal sex trafficking conviction, records show.

King checked himself into a hospital after the shooting, and told police he had been struck by errant gunfire while attending a basketball event hosted by the popular rapper and community activist Mistah F.A.B. on the 900 block of 44th Street, authorities said. He claimed he had gone there by himself and had nothing to do with the shootout, but police say they obtained video showing King leaving in a Mercedes with two of the shooting suspects, and that the same Mercedes later brought him to the hospital.

Ortega, meanwhile, appeared to be associated with the third shooting suspect, who got into an altercation with the other two men just before the gunfire started, according to authorities. Police say that after being shot in the chest, Ortega and the third shooter left in a vehicle that later showed up at a hospital to drop him off.

Alameda County prosecutors have not charged King in connection with the shooting, and police haven’t said whether any of the three suspected shooters have been arrested. Federal prosecutors moved to keep King in jail while the supervised released violation charges are pending, but a judge instead opted to release him with “strong” conditions, according to a minute order from a July 10 court hearing.

When King was 21, he was charged with trafficking a 14-year-old girl in San Francisco, and police at the time described him as a gang member and “one man crime wave,” according to media reports. He was later sentenced to 17 years and had been scheduled to get out in 2026. But last November, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer granted his early release from prison, writing that “his young age at the time of sentencing, seventeen years in custody, rehabilitative efforts, remorse, and lack of apparent dangerousness” justified it.