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Murder suspect Mtula Payton listens to opening statement during the K Street mass shooting trial at the Tani Cantil-Sakauye Sacramento Courthouse on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.<\/p>\n
HECTOR AMEZCUA<\/p>\n
hamezcua@sacbee.com<\/p>\n
Sacramento police Detective Shaun McGovern had many questions for Sergio Harris\u2019 cousin, Ike Harris, in the stationhouse interview room, but he returned to one again and again:<\/p>\n
Where was the gun?<\/p>\n
The gun that police and prosecutors say Sergio Harris, 38, fired during the shootout that left six people dead \u2014 including Harris \u2014 and 13 others wounded on downtown Sacramento\u2019s K Street just after closing time on April 3, 2022.<\/p>\n
Ike Harris was at his cousin\u2019s side after he was shot and called out his name, he told McGovern in a videotaped July 2022 interview at the department\u2019s Freeport Boulevard station.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re the first one there. You rolled him over,\u201d McGovern said at one point. \u201cYou know where the gun is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jurors in the K Street mass shooting trial Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court listened to excerpts from McGovern\u2019s hourslong interview with Ike Harris at the Freeport substation.<\/p>\n
On the witness stand before jurors and Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman, McGovern said Harris was mostly cooperative and even allowed police to take his cellphones to download video and images recorded on K Street.<\/p>\n
Sacramento County prosecutors brought McGovern back to the stand for more hours of video culled in the hours before the deadliest mass shooting in Sacramento history<\/a>.<\/p>\n Bystanders Yamile Martinez, 21; Johntaya Alexander, 21, and Melinda Davis, 57, died in the shootings. Joshua Hoye-Lucchessi, 32; Harris; and Devazia Turner, 29, were involved in the shootout and were also killed, Sacramento County prosecutors said.<\/p>\n Dandrae Martin died in 2024 at the Sacramento County Main Jail while awaiting trial in the case.<\/p>\n Surviving suspects Mtula Payton and Dandrae Martin face murder charges in the killings that prosecutors argue was a gun battle between gang rivals. Attorneys for Payton and Martin counter the claims. They say the two were shot at in a spontaneous burst of gunfire and returned fire to defend themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the interview room, Ike Harris said, yes, he rolled over his cousin\u2019s body. Yes, he took his cousin\u2019s keys and cell phone. But, not a gun, he repeatedly insisted.<\/p>\n \u201cI flipped him over. I stretched him out. I\u2019ve got video of me. I\u2019m not going to be, with cops around, getting a gun,\u201d Ike Harris said.<\/p>\n He told McGovern that someone else \u2014 a Vallejo man he knew only by the nickname \u201c5-Star\u201d \u2014 removed the weapon.<\/p>\n \u201c5-Star took care of that. Dude took that and got rid of it,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n Later, Harris told McGovern he received a phone call from a Bay Area number.<\/p>\n \u201cHe told me, \u2018I got the gun.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n But the weapon\u2019s whereabouts remained a mystery. Harris said the gun was likely destroyed.<\/p>\n While the weapon\u2019s whereabouts remained unknown, Harris also revealed information that appeared to support prosecutors\u2019 theory that longstanding gang animosity fueled the shooting.<\/p>\n Sergio Harris knew everyone, his cousin said. He also had a longstanding dispute \u2014 \u201cbeef,\u201d his cousin said \u2014 with some of those on K Street when the shooting started. The conflict dated back to 2012, but both sides clung to the animosity.<\/p>\n \u201cThese were two groups of people who didn\u2019t get along at all,\u201d Ike Harris said.<\/p>\n Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n