Wheelchair Murder: Police Arrest 2 More Suspects

Berkeley police today announced the arrest of two suspects in the fatal shooting in December of a wheelchair-bound man.

Police arrested Gregory Foote, 19, this morning in Hayward and U.S. Marshals arrested Khalil Phanor, an 18-year-old San Leandro resident, in Everett, Washington on Thursday in connection with the Dec. 29, 2014 shooting, which killed 36-year-old Kamahl Middleton and injured a woman with him, according to police.

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Today’s announcement brings to four the total number of arrests in the shooting, which took place in a parking lot near San Pablo and University avenues around 9:45 p.m.

Police previously arrested, Carl Young, a 20-year-old San Leandro resident, on Thursday Feb. 19 in Oakland, as well as a 17-year-old San Leandro resident. On Monday, prosecutors charged Young and Phanor with murder and the special circumstance of committing a murder during the course of a robbery, which carries a potential penalty of life in prison without parole or the death penalty.

An assault with a firearm charge was also filed in connection with the shooting in the arm of a woman who was with Middleton but survived her injuries.

Prosecutors allege that Phanor was the suspect who shot Middleton and the female victim.

According to Middleton’s LinkedIn profile, he graduated from San Francisco State University in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing. Middleton said in his profile that he had been chief marketing officer for Natural Energy Company since 1996. He said the company made natural energy drinks and his duties were “foreseeing various marketing activities which include distribution, advertising, research, sales, product development, customer service and pricing.”

The case remains under investigation. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call homicide investigators at (510) 981-5741 or police at (510) 981-5900. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Bay Area Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 222-8477.

--Bay City News