OAKLAND — A Bay Area man was sentenced to six years in prison, with credit for time served, for killing a man during a tense back-and-forth, court records show.
Kevin Gray, 51, of Vallejo, is set to get out of prison in July 2027, according to public records. He is currently incarcerated at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla, and he was transferred to the state prison system last December, records show.
Gray’s next court hearing has been set for May, when a judge will determine how much restitution he owes, court records show.
Gray pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the Aug. 7, 2023 killing of 24-year-old Sosefo Feao. Police said at the time that Gray shot and killed Feao around 11 p.m., inside a home on the 1200 block of 84th Avenue in Oakland.
At Gray’s December 2023 preliminary hearing, an eyewitness to the shooting testified that Feao was making aggressive statements about wanting to get a knife, that he left for 20 minutes and that he said “I’m going to stab this (expletive)” when he returned.
Gray’s lawyer called it a “self-defense situation,” but Judge Scott Patton disagreed, stating that at most the testimony established Feao was being “was being obnoxious and insulting.”
“Nobody ever saw him with a weapon,” Patton said.
Gray received about two years worth of credit for time served when he was formally sentenced, court records show. He had been at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin while the case was pending. Prosecutors dismissed a murder charge as part of the plea deal.