A sheriff’s deputy was taken into custody Wednesday after he fatally shot a married couple, authorities said, prompting a manhunt across suburban Northern California and a nearly hourlong phone conversation that ended with his surrender, officials said.
Devin Williams Jr., 24, is accused of shooting the woman, 42, and her husband, 58, with his service weapon inside their home early Wednesday in Dublin, roughly 25 miles southeast of Oakland, an Alameda County sheriff’s spokesman, Lt. Ray Kelly, told reporters.Williams, who had worked in the courthouse division of the sheriff’s office for a year, hadn’t yet been booked when authorities announced his surrender, Kelly said.“Our agency is in shock,” Kelly said. “This is not something we deal with.
Six people were in the home when gunfire was reported to authorities around 12:45 a.m., Kelly said. Among them was an out-of-town relative who became a key eyewitness in the shooting, Kelly said. Before he started at the sheriff's office, Williams worked in the state's Central Valley for the Stockton Police Department. A spokesman for the department, Joe Silva, said he was employed for one year, from Jan. 16, 2020, to Jan. 19, 2021.