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A San Jose man accused of gunning down a woman walking her dogs in San Leandro last week is facing murder and other charges, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday.
Prosecutors charged Rohith Sunil, 21, with murder, assault with a semiautomatic gun and carrying a loaded gun in public in the shooting death of 41-year-old Casey Way.
Sunil also faces a number of gun enhancements and special allegations, including that he knowingly used a stolen gun to kill Way. If convicted of all charges, he could spend 50 years to life in prison.
San Leandro police said Way was allegedly shot and killed by Sunil while walking her dogs with her boyfriend near the intersection of East 14th and Williams streets at about 11:10 p.m. Thursday.
Sunil allegedly drove up to the couple, got out of his car to accost them and then shot Way after a brief exchange, police said. Sunil then allegedly got back into his car and drove off, according to police.
Neither the boyfriend nor the dogs were physically harmed but Way later died at a hospital.
Then, just before midnight, San Leandro police learned that Sunil had been arrested in Dublin after allegedly following someone suspiciously in his car.
He was picked up at about 11:45 p.m. after another driver called 911 to report that someone in a dark-colored sedan with tinted windows and no license plate was following him.
A dispatcher told the caller to drive to the Dublin Police Services parking lot, where Alameda County sheriff’s deputies arrived to find Sunil allegedly parked directly behind the caller’s car.
Deputies approached Sunil and detained him after they noticed that a gun allegedly fell from his possession onto the ground.
— Story by Kiley Russell, Bay City News
