Man pleads guilty to killing Oakland federal court officer

A Santa Cruz County man pleaded guilty on Friday to murdering a court security guard at a Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland in 2020.

Carrillo admitted to shooting Protective Services Officer Dave Patrick Underwood and wounding another guard on May 29, 2020 while Black Lives Matter protests were going on in the city. He pleaded guilty to one count of use of a firearm causing death, and one count of attempted murder. According to a news release from her office, Stephanie M. Hinds, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, has proposed a 41-year sentence to U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

An Air Force veteran, Carrillo signed a statement admitting that he and another man drove to the protests, and that he fired 19 shots from a van. According to Hinds' office, Carrillo also confessed to social media posts that "encouraged violence against law enforcement" and referenced the boogaloo movement, a loosely organized anti-police, anti-government movement not aligned with either the traditional political right or left.

Carrillo is on trial in Santa Cruz for the June 6, 2020, killing of Santa Cruz County sheriff's Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller.

Underwood's sister, Angela Underwood Jacobs, sued Meta Platforms Inc. in Alameda County Superior Court last month. She claims Facebook's parent company is liable for her brother's wrongful death because it failed to police extremists platforms, such as the one where Carrillo met his alleged accomplice, Robert Alvin Justice Jr.