DATE: March 5, 2026<\/p>\n
CASE: Desean Brasser (Case #22FE017474)<\/p>\n
PROSECUTOR: Supervising Deputy District Attorney Kevin Jones<\/p>\n
Desean Brasser was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder.\u00a0 The jury also found true allegations that the murder was committed during the commission of a robbery and that Brasser personally discharged a firearm causing death.<\/p>\n
On October 20, 2022, \u00a0the victim, Charles Starzynski, went to a bank ATM in midtown to make business deposits for a local food chain.\u00a0 As he walked back to his car, he carried a blue bank bag and put it in his trunk.\u00a0 Desean Brasser was a passenger in a nearby vehicle driven by Tajenae Cooper.\u00a0 When the victim drove out of the parking lot of the bank, Cooper followed him into a parking alley behind the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club.\u00a0 The victim got out of his car and stood behind his vehicle with his trunk open. Cooper then pulled up next to the victim and Brasser exited the vehicle armed with a gun.\u00a0 A witness heard Brasser yell \u201cgive me the bag\u201d as he approached the victim and reached into the trunk to steal the bank bag.\u00a0 Brasser then pulled items out of the trunk before shooting the victim in the head, killing him. Brasser then jumped back into the vehicle and Cooper sped off.\u00a0 Sacramento police investigated quickly and soon located the suspect vehicle parked in an apartment complex.\u00a0 After a SWAT callout, Brasser and Cooper were arrested. \u00a0The evidence in the case included video, DNA from a cellphone dropped by the gunman matching Brasser, and ballistics matching a gun located in Brasser\u2019s mother\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
Brasser faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.\u00a0 Sentencing is set for April 10, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. in Department 20 before the Honorable Michael Sweet. Tajenae Cooper previously pled to robbery and will be sentenced on May 29, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. in Department 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DATE: March 5, 2026 CASE: Desean Brasser (Case #22FE017474) PROSECUTOR: Supervising Deputy District Attorney Kevin Jones Desean Brasser…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-209705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}