KTVU
April 26, 2014
Two suspects have been arrested in the Oakland slaying of beloved dog walker who was killed last July as she drove down an East Oakland street, authorities announced Thursday.
The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office filed murder charges against Stephon Lee and 21-year-old Mario Floyd in the death of 66-year-old Judy Salamon.
Prosecutors also charged them with the special circumstance of committing a murder during the course of a robbery.
Oakland police said in a probable cause statement that Lee and Floyd argued with Salamon over her cellphone. She allegedly videotaped a crime being committed on her cellphone.
Police said witnesses identified Lee as the man who shot Salamon and Floyd as the man who drove the suspects’ car before and after the fatal shooting.
Floyd and Lee also face weapons enhancements and Lee is charged with being a felon in possession of a gun because he has two prior convictions for illegal firearms offenses.
He was convicted of one of those offenses, carrying a loaded firearm in a city, only eight days before Salamon was murdered.
Salamon, a pet sitter known for her love of dogs, was an advocate for hiring a private security firm to patrol the Maxwell Park neighborhood where she lived and was slain.
Oakland police said she was shot and killed at about 1:24 p.m. on July 24th as she drove in the 2400 block of Fern Street, between Brookdale and Fairfax avenues. She crashed her car into a parked car after the shooting.