OAKLAND, Calif. – A key figure in the shootout that left more than a dozen people injured on Juneteenth in 2024 is expected to be released on parole this week, after his attorney argued that the man fired in self-defense during one of Oakland’s largest mass shootings.
JaJuan Kelly, 25, was sentenced Thursday after accepting a plea deal that saw Alameda County prosecutors toss multiple charges of assault with a firearm in favor of a single count of possession of a firearm by a felon.
The deal – which was approved by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Roz Silvaggio – called for Kelly to receive a three-year jail sentence, though that length was essentially halved due to his time already spent at the Santa Rita Jail and his good behavior while he was there…