Cops Arrest Three More For Tattoo Party Murders

Police announced three new arrests Friday in connection with the shootings that occurred last October after an underground party in San Leandro, claiming the lives of three young people including a local high school girl.

The arrests announced Friday afternoon bring to four the number of suspect held in connection with the "tattoo party" murders that took place early on Sunday, October 2nd, when gunmen of an SUV  parked on Alvarado Bulevard as unlicensed party was breaking up.

The three persons arrested Friday were 19-year-old Aaron Stewart of Fairfield, 21-year-old Anthony Perry of Oakland and 18-year-old Stanley Turner, also of Oakland.

Already in custody and charged with three counts of murder and four counts of premeditated attempted murder is 20-year-old Paul Arthur Stevenson III of Oakland.

Police said the three new suspects will be similarly charged. Mug shots of all four arrested men are posted with this story.

The three murder victims included , a 16-year-old sophomore at San Leandro High. She was sitting in an SUV with 19-year-old Shanice Kiel and 23-year-old Joshua Alford when multiple gunmen opened fire on the vehicle in what proved for them to be a lethal spray of bullets.

Three other occupants of the SUV were wounded in the attack that occurred as an underground party was breaking up. A fourth person escaped physical harm.

Police offered no information Friday about the motives or roles played by the suspects. They confined their press statement to the circumstances of the arrests, which appear to have involved some neatly-timed coordination in an investigation led by Sgt. Ted Henderson.

Perry, the older of the two suspects from Oakland, was arrested about 6 pm Tursday on the 12500 block of Campus Drive in Oakland. 

Stewart, the suspect from Fairfield, was arrested about 11:15 pm Thursday in the vicinity of Airport Drive and Doolittle Drive in San Leandro.

Turner, the 18-year-old, was arrested about 8:45 Friday morning on the 2300 block of 84th Avenue in Oakland.

Police did not say whether the information leading to the arrests came from a tip spurred by the offered by the city.

The killings last October horrified San Leandro and evoked fears of the mayhem that seems to plague neighboring Oakland.

The crime occurred in a parking lot at 2661 Alvarado Boulevard near a warehouse where promoters had staged an event offering partygoers the chance to get a tattoo while listening to DJ music.

The fly-by-night party, promoted on Facebook and Twitter, drew more than 150 teens to a shop that had a permit to rent out trailers to pull motorcycles and the like. In January the city's board of zoning adjustments the license of the shop owner who had rented out the space to the party promoter for $300 -- after investing $70,000 in his trailer shop.

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