San Francisco police on Wednesday said they arrested the second of two men charged with killing a 6-year-old boy last July 4.
Deshaune Lumpkin, 18, was arrested on the 1100 block of Scott St. on Wednesday afternoon, the San Francisco Police Department said in a release. Lumpkin was arrested on charges of murder, attempted murder, carrying a loaded firearm with the intent to commit a felony and conspiracy.
Jace Young, 6, was shot and killed in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood on July 4, 2020. Police said at the time Young was watching fireworks, and that he and a 39-year-old man were the unintended victims of a targeted shooting. The man sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Police in January arrested James Harbor, now 19, on the 100 block of Font Blvd. in connection to Young’s death. Harbor, according to court documents obtained by the San Francisco Examiner in January, is Young's cousin, heads to trial on Sept. 3. He also has a pretrial hearing on Friday, according to court records.
The department said on July 2 that it had identified Lumpkin as a second suspect, nearly a year after Young's death. Searches for Lumpkin's name on the San Francisco Sheriff's Office inmate locator and the Superior Court of San Francisco’s case calendar provided no results prior to press time.
City leaders, including Mayor London Breed, spoke out in the aftermath of Young's death, calling for justice in the case as well as gun control and other institutional changes to lessen the disproportionate impact of gun violence on Black residents and children like Young.
"If this doesn’t make us rise up, I don’t know what will," Breed said in a press conference alongside Young’s family near Chase Center, three days after he was killed. "If this doesn't outrage you, I don't know what will! If this doesn't make you stop, I don’t know what will. We've gotta stop it. We've gotta stop. No more funerals!"
Police said an investigation into Young's death is still ongoing.
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