Four Gang Members Convicted in SF Bayview Drive-By Shooting Case

Assailants fired 18 rounds at a rival during a Bayview drive-by shooting, and four members of a gang-connected crew have now been convicted in the case after a multi-agency Bay Area investigation that FBI, SFPD, and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office credited partly to Flock camera technology and a pivotal piece of Oakland police surveillance footage.

Prosecutors alleged that Phillip Stewart drove the car from which Shaquille Dumetz and Jahari Oliver opened fire on the rival in September 2023, striking the man and riddling a nearby home with gunfire. Corey Martin-Turner allegedly collected the trio in a separate vehicle after the shooting. When officers apprehended Dumetz, they also found Jacobi Sanford and five firearms at the scene.

The case began unraveling within 24 hours of the attack. Oakland police had filmed the perpetrators departing for the shooting and returning hours later, footage that SFPD Major Crimes officer Brian Zahn described in testimony at a preliminary hearing in San Francisco Superior Court. Zahn testified that the investigation was effectively under way as the crime itself was still unfolding. A dispatcher's decision to check whether any officers were tracking an Infiniti linked to a firearms incident produced an immediate match, tightening the net around the suspects.

At the preliminary hearing, Judge Bruce Chan dismissed a defense argument that the shooting reflected no genuine intent to kill. "The fact that you have poor marksmanship doesn't diminish the fact that he was shot at multiple times," Chan said, and denied pretrial release for the defendants. Four were sent to trial on charges including attempted murder; a fifth faced a jury separately on firearms offenses tied to the arsenal recovered with Dumetz.

The Bayview attack was investigated in a broader context of gang violence stretching across the Bay Area. Oakland police were simultaneously pursuing three homicides connected to a murderous attack on mourners at a memorial service for Tre-4 gang member Tahmon Wilson on August 30, 2023. Angela Cummings, 40, was shot in the head and died at the scene; Taivale Tautalatasi, 29, a San Francisco resident, died in hospital days later. That Oakland investigative activity intersected with the surveillance evidence that ultimately helped break the Bayview case.

The FBI, SFPD, and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office jointly highlighted the multi-agency collaboration at a press conference, with Flock cameras specifically credited for enabling the arrests. The convictions mark a significant closure for Bayview residents who saw a neighborhood home caught in gang crossfire during a shooting that investigators managed to solve before the day was out.