2 charged in recent homicide; investigation led to raid of auto shop
OAKLAND >> Two Oakland residents have been arrested and charged in connection with the Oct. 10 homicide of a 33-year-old man who was killed in a driveby shooting, court records show.
Enrique Campos-Patino, 40, and Lester Villatoro, 32, have been charged with murdering Alberto ServinOrtega and illegal gun possession. Additionally, Villatoro was charged with allowing someone to shoot from a vehicle, driving a stolen car, court records show.
Both men are in Santa Rita Jail on no-bail holds. Campos-Patino was arrested late last month, while Villatoro was arrested Nov. 9, records show. Police spent weeks searching for Villatoro, who failed to show up to a Nov. 1 court hearing in an unrelated burglary case, records show.
According to authorities, Servin-Ortega — who went by the nickname “2Kan” — was standing outside a Lexus on a dead-end on the 1300 block of 105th Avenue in Oakland when Villatoro and Campos-Patino pulled up in a Kia containing at least one other person. Campos-Patino allegedly directed Villatoro to be on the lookout for ServinOrtega and shot him from the vehicle with a rifle.
Police have not disclosed a motive. After the shooting, investigators tracked the Kia on surveillance cameras set up around town and realized it parked at an auto body shop on the 10200 block of International Boulevard.
Two firearms were seized from the business during a subsequent police raid, authorities said.
Campos-Patino denied involvement in the homicide during a police interview, but gave “conflicting statements” about what he was doing that day, police said in court records.
At the time of the homicide, Villatoro was out on $235,000 bail in a multifelony case filed last June. In that case, Villatoro was accused of forcing a victim to open a security gate so he and a cohort could escape from a Hayward apartment complex, where they'd just allegedly burglarized a vehicle.
Campos-Patino has pleaded not guilty. Villatoro is set to be arraigned on Nov. 14, court records show.