OAKLAND — The suspect allegedly employed his grandma to lie to the police, threatened a houseguest into getting rid of his clothes and staged the scene to resemble a suicide.
But in the end, police foiled Devin Carrihill’s attempts to get away with the killing of 22-year-old Sacory Knight. In a plea deal finalized last December, Carrihill pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for an 11-year prison term, court records show.
Carrihill, 23, was transferred to state prison in January and is currently housed at the California Rehabilitation Center in Norco, records show. As part of the plea deal, Alameda County prosecutors dropped murder and assault charges against him, court records show.
Knight was fatally shot on May 3, 2022, inside a home on the 1000 block of Channing Way in Berkeley. Police describe him as a “long time family friend” of Carrihill and his grandma, who were all together at the home, along with an unnamed woman, who was also shot but survived.
After the shooting, police say Carrihill staged the crime scene to better resembled a suicide, gave his grandmother a story to repeat to police and took the injured woman to another city, only letting her go after threatening her into getting rid of the clothes he’d been wearing. The woman went to a hospital and told police the truth about where she’d been shot, court records show.
Carrihill’s grandma, then 73, was arrested on suspicion of accessory but released without charges. Carrihill will receive about three years worth of credit for the time he spent in jail before the plea deal was finalized.
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