OAKLAND — Two men wounded in a shooting last week near City Hall that stemmed from an argument over a woman have been criminally charged, according to authorities and court documents.
Charged with criminal threats, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and possession of ammunition by a prohibited person is Derrick Johnson 28, of Oakland.
Johnson was not charged with assault with a firearm because authorities believe he was acting in self-defense when he shot the other man after the other man struck him with a chair.
The other man, Lamont Williams, 51, of Oakland, is charged with assault with a deadly weapon: the chair. He remains hospitalized.
The shooting happened about 4:30 p.m. May 6 at the edge of Oakland City Hall Plaza near the intersection of 14th Street and Broadway where several men had gathered.
According to court documents, Johnson had gotten into an argument with another man over a woman. Police have not said anything else about who the woman was or what the argument was about. When Johnson allegedly threatened to shoot the man, the man told Williams of the threat and asked him to help, the documents say.
Williams and Johnson then squared off to physically fight. Williams picked up a chair, swung at Johnson once with it and missed before hitting Johnson on the back of the head with the chair as Johnson was walking away, the documents say.
Johnson then allegedly shot Williams in the abdomen.
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As Johnson was fleeing on foot, he was shot by another man in the leg. Johnson was found in a parking structure several blocks away. The person who shot Johnson is still being sought.
Police said Johnson discarded the gun he used as he fled,but it was found May 8 by a BART police dog in a planter box in the 1500 block of Franklin Street, which is one of the streets Johnson fled on.
Johnson was treated and released at a hospital for his injuries and is being held on $325,000 bail at Santa Rita Jail pending the entering of a plea Thursday.
According to court records, Williams has five prior felony convictions between November 1993 and October 2021. He went to prison for three of them: kidnapping, corporal injury to a relationship partner and a drug case and was placed on probation for the other two, which were drug offenses. Johnson has two prior felony convictions for robbery in Pennsylvania in 2018 where he was placed on probation, the records say.