OAKLAND — One of the alleged gunman in a wild 2023 double homicide has been sentenced to probation and time he had already served in jail, court records show.
In a plea deal with prosecutors, Sir Cameron Young, 23, pleaded no contest to an assault weapon possession charge in exchange for the probation sentence. Prosecutors dropped other charges of assault and gun possession as part of the deal, court records show.
Young was implicated — along with another man who faced similar charges and a third man who didn’t — in a June 2023 shootout at a gas station on 66th Avenue in Oakland, where 23-year-old Idriek Patterson, of Newark, and 25-year-old Anteasa Collins, of Stockton, were killed. Other participants included Damarea Jones, 32, and Dominic Gates, 31, according to police.
Jones was charged with gun possession and pleaded no contest in October 2023, receiving probation. Gates was never charged, but he was later implicated in a high-profile murder case that fell apart over self-defense claims, court records show.
Authorities alleged that around 5:30 a.m. on June 4, 2023, Patterson, Jones, and a woman pulled up in a Buick, and were spotted by Gates and Young, who ran up and began shooting. Patterson was killed while attempting to run for cover, and Collins — who allegedly arrived with Young and Gates and had a tattoo that said “Dominic” on her neck — was killed a few moments later.
While Gates avoided criminal charges in the shooting, he was later charged with failing to register as a sex offender, due to a prior conviction of pimping a girl 16 or younger, court records show. Then, in 2024, Gates and Richard James Romano were both charged with murdering Alliauna Green, a rising Oakland rapper who used the stage name Tan DaGod.
But much like the June 2023 shootout, Green’s July 2024 killing was fraught with legal issues and self-defense claims. Police testimony revealed that Green actually fired first at Gates and Romano after they allegedly pulled guns, but that the guns were pulled after Green allegedly threatened the men. Defense attorneys argued Green was posturing because her public image was dependent on false claims she’d made, like pretending to have killed an abusive ex-boyfriend in self-defense and pulling a public stunt where she claimed to smoke his ashes in a marijuana cigar.
As a result of all this, Gates and Romano pleaded no contest to gun charges and were released from jail. Like Young, they were sentenced to time they’d already served behind bars, court records show.
While Young’s case was pending, he was initially released from jail, but then re-arrested after failing to appear in court. A judge denied a defense motion to release him from jail, which cited Young’s lack of criminal history and said he is the “sole provider” for his growing family.
“Mr. Young is the sole provider for his infant. Mr. Young’s girlfriend is pregnant. The two of them have struggled to maintain consistent housing throughout the pendency of this case,” defense lawyer Jesse Adams wrote in a declaration filed in court.