A very tragic situation…. A California sheriff’s deputy was arraigned Friday in connection with the execution-style shooting deaths of a married couple.
Devin Williams Jr., 24, a deputy with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, stands accused of two charges of murder.
On Sept. 7, 2022, almost an hour past midnight, Dublin Police Services responded to a call about a double shooting inside of a residence on Colebrook Lane. Responding officers found a wife and husband, later identified as 42-year-old Maria Tran and 57-year-old Benison Tran, dead inside the large stucco house they once called home.
“The reporting party called 911, and someone they did not know was inside their residence,” the probable cause affidavit for the defendant’s arrest says. “One of the residents picked up the phone and advised the suspect was armed with a firearm, and the suspect shot his sister and his brother-in-law.”
The two victims were found with gunshot wounds to their heads and necks. Witnesses told law enforcement that they saw the killing as it happened.
Witnesses to the double murder then identified Williams as the suspect in photographic lineup. The defendant’s father was later interviewed and said his son was in “dating relationship” with Maria Tran.
Williams is alleged to have fled after the shooting. He later called the DPD and surrendered himself around noon later that same day. He was taken into custody in Coalinga by the California Highway Patrol and the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, according to the DA’s office. Arresting officers allegedly noted the presence of “[r]ed matter” that was “believed to be blood” inside of his vehicle, according to the probable cause document.
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