Stavon Moore, 29, was acquitted of murder and attempted murder, while Tyja Braswell, 22, pleaded her murder charge down to a gun possession conviction with no jail time. Both fired guns in the shootout that killed a 64-year-old bystander.
Stavon Moore did not dispute that he shot and killed an innocent bystander during the shooting, but the defense relied on video showing the woman he was arguing with reaching for her gun before Moore began to fire.
OAKLAND An Alameda County jury has acquitted an Oakland man of murder and attempted murder in a hectic 2022 shootout at a local gas station that left a bystander dead and a woman paralyzed with gunshot wounds. Stavon Moore, 29, did not contest that he killed 64-year-old Rodney Davis, nor that he paralyzed 22-year-old Tyja Braswell in the shootout. But he argued that his actions were the direct result of Braswell reaching into her fanny pack to pull her pistol out and attempt to kill Moore, and
Tamia Foster, 23, accepted a three-year prison term with a chance to avoid incarceration altogether, and will not be required to testify against her co-defendants.