Vincent Choi
A Bay Area man was convicted of murder for the March 2009 shooting death of U.C. Berkeley college student Vincent Choi, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Dwayne Robinson of Hayward, Calif. will serve 40 years to life in prison for killing Choi outside of the Dan Sung Sa restaurant on Telegraph Ave. near the Oakland-Berkeley border, and wounding two others.
Choi was two months shy of graduating from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in political science.
The shooting resulted from an earlier argument in which Robinson’s group and Choi’s group were “mean-mugging” each other inside the restaurant.
“It was just basically about people just kind of staring each other down, just mean-mugging each other,” Alameda County deputy district attorney Tim Wagstaffe told the Chronicle.
Both groups went outside the restaurant, and Robinson pulled the gun and fired seven shots, hitting Choi twice in the chest and two of his friends in the legs, Wagstaffe said. Robinson then fled in a car driven by a friend, but not before firing five more shots that did not hit anyone.
Robinson was tracked down through tips to the police, and witnesses at the restaurant provided investigators with cell-phone pictures of him, authorities said.
Robinson, who was a student at Chabot College at the time of the incident, was convicted of second-degree murder and three counts of assault with a firearm.
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