A trio of gangsters are charged in the horrific murder of a toddler, who was fatally struck in the head by a stray bullet while he was napping in his car seat.
The youngster’s mother was driving along a California freeway when her car got caught in the deadly crossfire. Her 23-month-old victim, Jasper Wu, was only weeks away from turning two when he was fatally struck.
The senseless crime took place November 6, 2021 at 2pm during a rolling gun battle between two notorious San Francisco rival criminal street gangs – Chopper City and Eddy Rock on on Interstate 880 in Oakland California.
A single shot that came from the Altima hit Wu’s family car, instead of the Infiniti, their intended target, prosecutors said.
The bullet went through the windshield, striking and killing the toddler. The bullet was found lodged in the seat under Jasper’s car seat, District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said.
The 23-month-old victim, Jasper Wu, was only weeks away from turning two when he was killed by a stray bullet on Interstate 880 on November 6, 2021
Johnny Jackson , 28, (pictured) one of three gang members charged in the horrific murder of toddler Jasper Wu, in a freeway shooting in Oakland
The four gang members – Trevor Green, 22, Ivory Bivins, 24; and Johnny Jackson, 28 – were charged with murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, Alameda County District Attorney’s Office announced during a Thursday press conference, ABC3 News reported.
The fourth suspect, Keison Lee, was killed in a separate shooting last month. Bivins and Green were also charged with conspiracy to commit a crime and criminal street gang conspiracy.
Green and Bivins, who are now in custody on other charges in Contra Costa County, will be transferred to Alameda County. On Friday, Jackson who was arrested on a warrant on Wednesday, will be indicted.
Lee, who had been shot and injured in the exchange during the November 21 shooting, was killed last month in an unrelated gang violence shooting, O’Malley said, CBS News reported.
Jasper Wu, pictured, was not the only child in the car. He had been in the vehicle with other relatives, including three other children
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Carl Chan, a family spokesperson (left) and Jihao Wu (pictured center) whose son, Jasper Wu, 1, was killed during the deadly crossfire, is seen at a press conference held at Rene C. Davison Courthouse in Oakland, on Thursday. In the photo, California Highway Patrol Assistant Chief Jason Reardon (pictured right) announces multiple arrests in the fatal shooting
Grief-stricken mother Cherry Wu’s son Jasper was killed in a freeway shooting November 6, 2021 by rival gang members from the San Francisco area
Cherry Wu’s car (pictured, a white Lexus sedan. Little Jasper, who had been seated in a car seat in the back of the car, had been in the vehicle with other relatives, including three other kids
Two officers at the scene when 23-month-old Jasper Wu was fatally struck on I-880 in Oakdale
The victim’s aunt, who’s not identified, said Wu’s mother, Cherry Wu, was driving in a white Lexus sedan in the southbound direction of Interstate 880 from San Francisco heading back to her home in Fremont, when the tragedy happened.
Little Jasper, who had been seated in a car seat in the back of the car, had been in the vehicle with other relatives, including three other children.
It is not clear the ages of the other children or if anyone else was injured during the shooting.
Wu’s father, Jihao Wu and family spokesperson, Carl Chan, appeared at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland, California on Thursday with other family members.
They all listened intently as California Highway Patrol Assistant Chief Jason Reardon announced the murder charges of his son’s killers.
District Attorney O’Malley said during the conference: ‘How could this horrific tragedy have happened?,’ she said.
‘It happened because two rival gangs were having a rolling gun battle on Highway 880 … across the freeway at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.’
