Armored Car Guard Oakland Murder victim Number 114
OAKLAND — A Brinks armored car guard was shot and killed Friday morning by a masked gunman who escaped with tens of thousands of dollars after hijacking the victim and his partner at a shopping center, authorities said. The dead guard was identified as Anthony Quintero, 24, of Union City, a former Marine who had worked for the company since May.
The other guard, a 28-year-old Hayward man who had worked for the company since March, was not physically harmed.
Quintero's aunt, Margarita Bonita, 53, who raised her nephew from the time he was 12 until he joined the Marines after high school, said Quintero had hoped to become a police officer.
He was honorably discharged
and returned home from Camp Pendleton nearly two years ago.
"He was a good boy. He was caring and compassionate, and he had ideas about what he wanted to do with his life," Bonita said.
Quintero was survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and their 2-year-old daughter, Destiny, Bonita said. Quintero's family moved into their first home, a mobile home in Union City, in July, she said.
"He loved his family and his daughter was the most important thing in his life," Bonita said.
Bonita said she heard on the television Friday morning that a Brink's driver had been shot. She said the company later confirmed to the family that Quintero had been killed.
"It was a very, very sad event for us," she said. "He's definitely going to be missed deeply. We just don't know why these things happen."
The fatal confrontation started about 7:15 a.m. at a shopping center on the 3000 block of East Ninth Street in the Fruitvale district.
The two-man Brinks team was en route to San Francisco from Brinks' nearby office on Alameda Avenue in Oakland with a large amount of money in the truck to make regular pickups and deliveries, police said.
But the men decided to stop at the Donut Star Chinese Fast Food in the shopping center for some water and
juice, police said.
While Quintero waited in the truck, his partner got the items. When he returned, he got into the driver's seat while Quintero went outside to the back to enter the part of the truck where the money was kept.
That is when the gunman confronted him and made him get inside the money-holding area, police said.
Keeping a gun on Quintero, the suspect forced the other guard to drive away. Minutes later, the suspect ordered him to stop the truck in an industrial area at East 10th Street and 23rd Avenue.
The gunman shot Quintero before leaping from the truck with some bags of money and disappearing, police said.
Whether he had an accomplice waiting for him or had left a car there for himself was not known.
Oakland police were being assisted in the investigation by the FBI.
Armored car guards have previously been the target of attacks in the East Bay. In 2002, a Brinks guard was shot and killed at a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Berkeley. In 1997 a San Ramon man who worked as a guard for Armored Transport in Oakland shot and killed his partner and made off with $300,000. He was convicted in 2001.
Quintero's homicide was Oakland's 114th of the year.
Police said they were told it could be as much as $100,000.
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Oakland Pimp Murder Victim Number 113
OAKLAND — A man shot to death inside his car in West Oakland Thursday night was a suspected pimp who had two of his prostitutes working nearby, police said Friday. He was identified as Terrell Brown, 27, of Castro Valley, who was on probation for a drug conviction.
Homicide Sgt. Phil Green said Friday police have ruled out robbery as a motive for the killing.
The shooting happened in the 3200 block of Filbert Street about 8:06 p.m. Thursday.
Police said Brown was sitting alone in a Lexus while two of his prostitutes plied their trade within a few blocks from him. One woman had just given Brown some money from a client, Green said.
Green said a man walked up to the car and fired several shots at Brown. He was able to stagger from the car before collapsing on the street.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Brown was well-known to police and area residents as a pimp, and had boasted of his exploits to officers before, authorities said.
In February,
he was arrested for pimping and unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor but the case was dismissed.
One woman with him Thursday night said they had been working in the area of High Street and International Boulevard but came to West Oakland after Brown got a ticket from police, authorities said.
The woman also told police Brown had planned to take them earlier in the week to Las Vegas and Virginia to work as escorts but they missed their flight.
The killing was Oakland's 113th homicide of the year.
OAKLAND — A Brinks armored car guard was shot and killed Friday morning by a masked gunman who escaped with tens of thousands of dollars after hijacking the victim and his partner at a shopping center, authorities said. The dead guard was identified as Anthony Quintero, 24, of Union City, a former Marine who had worked for the company since May.
The other guard, a 28-year-old Hayward man who had worked for the company since March, was not physically harmed.
Quintero's aunt, Margarita Bonita, 53, who raised her nephew from the time he was 12 until he joined the Marines after high school, said Quintero had hoped to become a police officer.
He was honorably discharged
and returned home from Camp Pendleton nearly two years ago.
"He was a good boy. He was caring and compassionate, and he had ideas about what he wanted to do with his life," Bonita said.
Quintero was survived by his wife, Elizabeth, and their 2-year-old daughter, Destiny, Bonita said. Quintero's family moved into their first home, a mobile home in Union City, in July, she said.
"He loved his family and his daughter was the most important thing in his life," Bonita said.
Bonita said she heard on the television Friday morning that a Brink's driver had been shot. She said the company later confirmed to the family that Quintero had been killed.
"It was a very, very sad event for us," she said. "He's definitely going to be missed deeply. We just don't know why these things happen."
The fatal confrontation started about 7:15 a.m. at a shopping center on the 3000 block of East Ninth Street in the Fruitvale district.
The two-man Brinks team was en route to San Francisco from Brinks' nearby office on Alameda Avenue in Oakland with a large amount of money in the truck to make regular pickups and deliveries, police said.
But the men decided to stop at the Donut Star Chinese Fast Food in the shopping center for some water and
While Quintero waited in the truck, his partner got the items. When he returned, he got into the driver's seat while Quintero went outside to the back to enter the part of the truck where the money was kept.
That is when the gunman confronted him and made him get inside the money-holding area, police said.
Keeping a gun on Quintero, the suspect forced the other guard to drive away. Minutes later, the suspect ordered him to stop the truck in an industrial area at East 10th Street and 23rd Avenue.
The gunman shot Quintero before leaping from the truck with some bags of money and disappearing, police said.
Whether he had an accomplice waiting for him or had left a car there for himself was not known.
Oakland police were being assisted in the investigation by the FBI.
Armored car guards have previously been the target of attacks in the East Bay. In 2002, a Brinks guard was shot and killed at a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Berkeley. In 1997 a San Ramon man who worked as a guard for Armored Transport in Oakland shot and killed his partner and made off with $300,000. He was convicted in 2001.
Quintero's homicide was Oakland's 114th of the year.
Police said they were told it could be as much as $100,000.
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Oakland Pimp Murder Victim Number 113
OAKLAND — A man shot to death inside his car in West Oakland Thursday night was a suspected pimp who had two of his prostitutes working nearby, police said Friday. He was identified as Terrell Brown, 27, of Castro Valley, who was on probation for a drug conviction.
Homicide Sgt. Phil Green said Friday police have ruled out robbery as a motive for the killing.
The shooting happened in the 3200 block of Filbert Street about 8:06 p.m. Thursday.
Police said Brown was sitting alone in a Lexus while two of his prostitutes plied their trade within a few blocks from him. One woman had just given Brown some money from a client, Green said.
Green said a man walked up to the car and fired several shots at Brown. He was able to stagger from the car before collapsing on the street.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Brown was well-known to police and area residents as a pimp, and had boasted of his exploits to officers before, authorities said.
In February,
One woman with him Thursday night said they had been working in the area of High Street and International Boulevard but came to West Oakland after Brown got a ticket from police, authorities said.
The woman also told police Brown had planned to take them earlier in the week to Las Vegas and Virginia to work as escorts but they missed their flight.
The killing was Oakland's 113th homicide of the year.
