CA Aya Nakano, 22, Oakland, California, 12 June 2013

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COLD CASE: Four years after his murder in Oakland, mother pleas for help in finding son's killer
AYA NAKANO — FBI

Aya Nakano's life was taken away four years ago in a fender bender that turned deadly. His mother has renewed her plea for the public's help in finding her son's killers.

He was known for his generosity, his compassion, and his ability to bring people together.

Nothing can bring him back, but now what his family and friends want is justice.

Nakano was brutally murdered on Jun. 12, 2013. Just before 11 p.m., the Emeryville resident was on his way home after playing basketball on the Cal campus.

Police say his car was rear-ended near Market and Stanford Avenue in Oakland.

Then, the unthinkable.

When Nakano got out of his car, the other driver and passenger shot and killed him just an hour before his birthday.

"It was just so surreal," the victim's mother Maria Climaco said. "It was already past midnight, and it was his birthday, and to hear...even to this day...you know, I vacillate between reality and wishful thinking."

The FBI in conjunction with Oakland police are investigating the murder and have offered up to $125,000 for information that leads to the arrest of the killers.

 

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Published on Jun 21, 2018
The FBI and Oakland police are trying to bring renewed attention to a five-year-old cold case, the death of 22-year-old Aya Nakano. Da Lin reports. (6-21-18)

 

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A mother's struggle: son's homicide case remains unsolved 5 years after murder
By: Kristin Bender
Posted: Jun 19 2018
OAKLAND, Calif. - Last week, Maria Climaco brought a bouquet of yellow roses to the spot in North Oakland where her son was gunned down five years ago.

There’s a bus stop there at Market Street and Stanford Avenue and two elderly women sat quietly on the bench, waiting for their bus to arrive.

They spotted the flowers.


“They asked me who they were for. I said they were for my son,’’ said the 51-year-old Climaco.

She told the ladies that her son, 22-year-old Aya Nakano, was murdered near the bus stop bench on the night of June 12, 2013, exactly five years ago.

She explained that following her son’s murder, she had spent $50,000 advertising the crime and the sizable reward on dozens of bus stop benches, billboards and transit buses.

“They remembered,’’ Climaco said. “Those ladies remembered him. And that is why I’m so keen on getting the word out. My greatest fear is the public forgetting about Aya and Aya’s case.”

"About an hour before midnight that warm June night, his Jeep Cherokee was rear-ended at Market Street and Stanford Avenue in North Oakland.

"Nakano got out of the vehicle, most likely to exchange insurance information with the other driver.

Police say an argument started and the other driver shot him before speeding off – with a passenger-- south on Market Street in a late-model, four-door, silver sedan hatchback."

 

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South Berkeley (namely Sacramento st) overflows into our (retiree community) neighborhood (Aya's slaying site).

I'd start looking at the typical traffic of crime and shootings along that corridor, to connections with Hunter's point.

By 2013 S. Emeryville/W. Oakland was already drastically altered and most of the crime went far East Oakland/San Leandro but felt homesick and loved to come back to haunt it's former territory.

Reminds me of what happened to beloved Perla Avina. Look into her case as well for insight about that type of shooter.

 

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South Berkeley (namely Sacramento st) overflows into our (retiree community) neighborhood (Aya's slaying site).

I'd start looking at the typical traffic of crime and shootings along that corridor, to connections with Hunter's point.

By 2013 S. Emeryville/W. Oakland was already drastically altered and most of the crime went far East Oakland/San Leandro but felt homesick and loved to come back to haunt it's former territory.

Reminds me of what happened to beloved Perla Avina. Look into her case as well for insight about that type of shooter.

Oh, gangster variety like LKs?
Recently started a thread for another road rage type murder, apparently committed by the almost opposite type of killer, imo.
NY - Richard Aderson, 47,interstate 84, Dutchess County, Ny, 5 Feb. 1997

Arrest in apparent road rage killing of Calif. mom
"Dubose is accused in the shooting Sunday of 30-year-old Perla Avina. Avina, a mother of four, was shot as she was riding in a car with her husband on the way back from a grocery store.

Her husband, Luis Lopez Gallegos, has said the other motorist did not like the way he was driving and opened fire."

 

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Oh, gangster variety like LKs?
Recently started a thread for another road rage type murder, apparently committed by the almost opposite type of killer, imo.
NY - Richard Aderson, 47,interstate 84, Dutchess County, Ny, 5 Feb. 1997

Arrest in apparent road rage killing of Calif. mom
"Dubose is accused in the shooting Sunday of 30-year-old Perla Avina. Avina, a mother of four, was shot as she was riding in a car with her husband on the way back from a grocery store.

Her husband, Luis Lopez Gallegos, has said the other motorist did not like the way he was driving and opened fire."

Much digging for exact location/direction of Richard's accident/shooting. It matters most of all which way they were both headed, are we to believe these shooters were bumbling about lost and evaporated into thin air after their 'accidents'? I for one surely won't. This type of tragedy sits uneasily into their own day-to-day routine, neither killer would want to 'risk' traveling back to that very area taking dwindling chances that they'd continue being 'invisible'.

If he'd actually been heading West, Aya's route suggests he had pizza with friends somewhere on College & chose to come down this 'alley' (Stanford like Alcatraz aren't well lit, both come with matching shady histories).
It's unlikely an envious rival would follow him from practice, wait out the afterplay supper, and expect 'alone time' to stage an accident & shooting- incur witnesses & injury to his own egomobile? Hmm nah.
I'd think if Aya was traveling South on Market he'd have followed the college bus line by habit- a main SF route that's known to ferry crops of students to & from their boarding rooms outside pricey Berkeley limits.
At any rate, the entire area around Aya's death is the intersection of 3 cities, and long carried major social issues as each assume the others should pick up development & maintenance- sort of collective ignorance where crime and neglect collects in the cracks.

I think I knew this blogger as I've been thinking hard on this list when Aya's thread came up, remembered to reach in & couldn't 'find' it in my head (struggle with some certain types of memory). A thing known, but just out of sight.
At any rate, there's a lot of local slayings to sort through for similarities or connections, I've long since lost count of friends, acquaintances, neighbors & coworkers lost over literally nothing:

2014 Murder Victims Total Oakland 2018

If I can come up with leads on nonlethal shooting/violence compilation, will post likely ones as well- but understand shooting and beatings are an every hour on the hour thing on a 'good' day; folks will try to run others off 880 for 'fun' because 'bored'; LE is nearly never on that freeway if they can avoid it. Perps love to run the MacArthur & 980 to pop off a crime spree to an easy driveway laying low smoking off their exploits.
Can't walk one block in that town without sinister history superimposed like a shadow, layers of suffering and misery alongside of laughter & sun.