Attorneys are considering a possible plea deal for one of two people accused in the 2022 shooting death of a former Capital Public Radio executive killed during a robbery in broad daylight outside an East Sacramento tennis club .
DeSean Leon Brasser Jr. and Tajenae Unique Cooper, both 25, appeared for a brief hearing Thursday afternoon in Sacramento Superior Court. Brasser remains in custody and Cooper has been released from jail as they await a trial scheduled to begin May 19.
Brasser faces a charge of murder in the death of Charles Starzynski, a former program director at CapRadio. Starzynski, 70, was shot about 12:30 p.m. Oct. 20, 2022, in an alley near the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club near 39th and N streets .
Cooper was arrested on suspicion of robbery in connection with Starzynski’s shooting death outside the tennis club in East Sacramento’s Fabulous 40s neighborhood. Authorities have identified her as an accomplice in the deadly armed robbery…