{"id":317728,"date":"2026-05-15T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317728\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T20:21:08","slug":"oakland-accessory-to-murder-case-dismissed-accused-killer-remains-a-fugitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/317728\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland accessory to murder case dismissed, accused killer remains a fugitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 Prosecutors dismissed the case against a man suspected of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2025\/08\/15\/two-charged-in-may-11-oakland-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">assisting an accused killer\u2019s getaway last year<\/a>, after determining they wouldn\u2019t be able to hold a key pretrial hearing before its legally mandated deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Kalif Collins, 25, was charged with accessory to murder in the May 11, 2025 killing of 30-year-old Daesjhon Grayson. Prosecutors had alleged Collins drove the murder suspect, 26-year-old Zairy Rubio, away from the scene and later falsely reported his car stolen.<\/p>\n<p>At a Jan. 26, hearing, the Alameda County District Attorney\u2019s office threw out the case, citing a penal code that applies when the prosecution fails to hold a preliminary hearing within a 60-day time limit, court records show. The case against Rubio remains active, with one significant holdup: police don\u2019t know where he is.<\/p>\n<p>The two were charged last year \u2014 Rubio with murder and Collins with accessory \u2014 but Rubio still remains listed as a fugitive and has not been arraigned, court records show. Collins was out on $30,000 bail when his charges were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Grayson was shot and killed about 10 minutes before midnight on May 11, 2025, on the 600 block of 16th Street in Oakland, near a shelter where Grayson allegedly lived, authorities said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 Prosecutors dismissed the case against a man suspected of assisting an accused killer\u2019s getaway last year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,143,145,5061,864,144,865],"class_list":["post-317728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-homicide","tag-oakland-murder","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317728","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=317728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}