{"id":505205,"date":"2026-10-23T08:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505205\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:28:12","slug":"man-convicted-in-2012-fatal-shooting-of-teen-now-charged-in-oakland-carjacking-robbery-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/505205\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted in 2012 fatal shooting of teen now charged in Oakland carjacking, robbery \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 A man recently paroled after spending less than 11 years in prison for fatally shooting a 15-year-old girl in 2012 has been charged with 11 crimes in the kidnapping, carjacking and robbery of a man Sunday, according to authorities and court records.<\/p>\n<p>Lilron Ravon Jones, 31, of Pittsburg, was charged Wednesday with kidnapping to commit robbery, carjacking, second degree robbery, first degree residential robbery, first degree automated teller machine robbery, criminal threats, vehicle theft, receiving stolen property, possession of a firearm with a prior conviction, possession of a firearm by a felon, possession of ammunition by a prohibited person and for violating parole.<\/p>\n<p>He has four prior felony convictions, including murder and attempted murder in the 2012 case. He had been released from prison in April, authorities said. He is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail.<\/p>\n<p>According to court records, a 23-year-old man was sitting in his parked Tesla outside his East Oakland home about 5:40 p.m. Sunday when a man later identified as Jones approached the vehicle holding a pistol. The man opened a car door and told the victim to get in the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect demanded to know where the man\u2019s valuables were; when the man told him they were inside his home, the robber forced him to go into the residence, where he filled a pillow case with a Playstation 5, $1,000 in designer shoes and other items, the records say.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then ordered the man back into the Tesla and drove him to his bank near Lake Merritt where he made him withdraw money from an ATM, the records say. The suspect also threatened that he would shoot the man if he tried to run away.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then drove the man back to his home and left him there, but not before telling him if he called 911 he would return and shoot up his house and kill him, the records say.<\/p>\n<p>But police were called; police used tracking devices to find the Tesla, with Jones driving. He was arrested near the intersection of Chase and Willow streets in West Oakland. Some of the loss from the victim was recovered, as was the gun believed used in the crimes, authorities said. He declined to talk to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 arrest marks another twist in a yearslong legal saga, which began with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2015\/07\/10\/three-sentenced-for-murdering-15-year-old-east-oakland-girl-during-revenge-attempt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the December 2012 killing of a 15-year-old girl<\/a> during an East Oakland gang war.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was 17 when prosecutors say he opened fire on rival gang members and killed Jubrille Jordan, 15. The girl was on her way to shop for New Year\u2019s Eve outfits with her sister and best friends when she was caught in the crossfire. A 14-year-old boy who was the intended target was wounded in the foot.<\/p>\n<p>Jones was arrested in November 2014, and a jury in July 2015 convicted him, along with two others, of first-degree murder and attempted murder in the killing. He was sentenced to 114 years in prison. The other two defendants, Vijay Bhushan and Marquise Thompson, were sentenced to 34 years to life and 32 years to life, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 case took a turn with the 2016 passage of Proposition 57, which changed the process under which juveniles could be charged as adults. As a result, an appellate court later ordered Jones\u2019 case back to juvenile court for the purposes of conducting a transfer hearing \u2013 a special court proceeding to determine whether defendants are tried as adults or kept in juvenile court.<\/p>\n<p>The case garnered outsized attention in 2023, when newly-elected District Attorney Pamela Price <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2023\/05\/11\/alameda-county-district-attorneys-bid-to-secure-early-release-for-convicted-murderer-is-delayed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">maneuvered to keep his case in juvenile court<\/a> as a means to potentially lop off about 100 years from Jones\u2019 sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The move drew pushback at the time from Jubrille Jordan\u2019s brother, Justin Young, who said he felt \u201cpushed into a corner\u201d by Price when the two initially met on the case. He said Jones was \u201ceither going to end up hurting some other people or get some other people hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A judge later sent his case back to adult court in 2024, and he was resentenced to 16 years in prison on newly-imposed convictions of manslaughter, attempted second-degree murder and unlawful firearm activity.<\/p>\n<p>The resentencing request was made by both Price\u2019s office and Jones\u2019 attorney, court records show. At his resentencing hearing, Alameda County Judge Thomas Stevens called the move \u201cthe best option among many bad options,\u201d given that the resulting litigation \u201cwould have no end in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones had a \u201cdisastrous\u201d childhood, the judge said; Jones was shot by his brother at the age of 5 and watched his mother get sent to prison when he was 14, court records show. At the time of his resentencing, Jones\u2019 rehabilitation appeared to be \u201caverage, maybe a B or a B-plus,\u201d the judge opined, and his disciplinary record had \u201cnot been impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, the judge added, Jones had expressed remorse and took responsibility for the 2012 killing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say he is a very different person,\u201d Stevens said from the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A man recently paroled after spending less than 11 years in prison for fatally shooting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,861,7,8,392,138,332,1529,393,9858,134,181,100,143,145,144,7912,385,2480,94685],"class_list":["post-505205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-contra-costa-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-east-bay-crime","tag-east-contra-costa","tag-east-oakland","tag-homicide","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-pittsburg","tag-regional","tag-robbery","tag-social-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505205","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=505205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}