Dana Rivers, 67, of San Jose, murdered Charlotte Reed, 56, her wife Patricia Wright, 57, and Wright’s 19-year-old son, Benny Toto Diambu-Wright, the jury found.
OAKLAND — An Alameda County jury convicted a San Jose transgender activist of murdering three family members inside their Oakland home after less than a full day of deliberations.
The evidence against Rivers was hard to refute; when police arrived at the victims’ home on Dunbar Avenue in Oakland, Rivers was standing outside, drenched in the victims’ blood, having just gotten onto a motorcycle containing one of at least three murder weapons. Prosecutors alleged she shot and stabbed Reed and Wright, then shot Diambu-Wright when he came to investigate what was happening. Diambu-Wright staggered outside the home and collapsed, dead, in the middle of the street.
Prosecutors claimed the motive was a fallout between Reed and Rivers, on-again, off-again friends, which centered on Reeds’ departure from a defunct all-women motorcycle club known as the Deviants. Pointing to a tattoo on Rivers that defines her as a “1 percenter” — referring to the small portion of motorcyclists that join gangs — authorities say Rivers became wrapped up in her identity asand sought revenge against Reed after she left the Deviants.
“They all went to sleep that night expecting to wake up the next day,” Deputy District Attorney Abigail Mulvihill told jurors during trial.
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