OAKLAND — Alameda County prosecutors have dismissed the homicide case towards a Hayward safety guard who shot and killed a nightclub attendee minutes after employees kicked him out of the institution, courtroom data present.
Omar Garrett, 24, of Oakland, has been dealing with homicide prices since Could 2022, when he killed Joseph Cornelison exterior of a membership on the 400 block of A Avenue in Hayward. Garrett was arrested Could 14, the identical evening because the capturing, however spent a grand whole of 11 days in jail as a result of his lawyer satisfied a choose to launch him with out bail, courtroom data present.
Prosecutors moved to dismiss the case at an August courtroom listening to. Garrett’s lawyer, Darryl Stallworth, stated his consumer was “ambushed” and attacked by the unarmed Cornelison, who knocked Garrett to the bottom and started pummeling him after a special employees member ejected Cornelison from the membership.
Garrett fired his pistol a number of occasions, then referred to as 911 to report the capturing, Hayward police stated on the time. Stallworth stated he was not stunned his consumer basically referred to as the police on himself.
“He was a safety guard with a licensed weapon. He referred to as it in simply as he usually would,” Stallworth stated. “He occurred to be the one that was assaulted and he was defending his personal life.”
Garrett has no prison historical past, and owned his personal safety enterprise, based on courtroom data. Stallworth stated he’d been in “ongoing” discussions with prosecutors about dropping the case for “effectively over a yr” earlier than the case was thrown out.
