Contra Costa DA charges fatal shooting suspect with murder

MARTINEZ — The Contra Costa County District Legal professional’s Workplace charged a 37-year-old Pittsburg man with murder and a number of different prices in reference to the deadly taking pictures of a convenience-store clerk final month, authorities mentioned.

After an hours-long standoff at a Modesto residence resulted in his give up Wednesday, Pittsburg police arrested Gregory Rossignon on suspicion of homicide for killing Abdul Raouf, 44, a retailer clerk shot useless on March 22 within the metropolis’s first murder of the yr.

Shortly after 9 p.m. that night time, police responded to a house after a doable gunshot report within the 100 block of Bruno Avenue. About 40 minutes after officers arrived, they heard gunshots a few half-mile away within the 1000 block of Energy Avenue and realized of a dispatcher’s name a few clerk shot at a retailer.

Different officers responded to the shop and located Raouf affected by no less than one gunshot wound. Regardless of officers’ life-saving efforts, he was pronounced useless on the scene.

Rossignon and Jessica Russo, 34, had been concerned in a fracas on Bruno shortly earlier than somebody fired a handgun a number of instances into the air. There have been no reported accidents in that taking pictures, and the 2 Pittsburg residents fled.

Investigators later developed info that the 2 additionally fled after their involvement in a confrontation with retailer staff that led to the deadly taking pictures. In accordance with a social-media submit Wednesday, police mentioned officers realized the lady had had a disagreement with a special retailer clerk, and that shortly afterward, Rossignon allegedly entered the shop and shot Raouf, who had not been concerned within the prior dispute, “for no obvious motive.”

On Friday, the district legal professional’s workplace mentioned Rossignon was charged with Raouf’s homicide, with an enhancement cost for intentional discharge of a weapon and different particular allegations linked to prior felonies. Rossignon was additionally charged with discharging a firearm with gross negligence, dissuading a witness by power or threats, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Final week, Pittsburg police took Russo into custody after serving a search warrant after 2 p.m. at a house within the 2000 block of D Avenue in Antioch. She was booked into West County jail on the warrant and held on $1 million bail, based on a county data examine.

A 3rd man concerned within the confrontation, a 43-year-old Pittsburg man detained at a Pittsburg house, was not later listed in custody.

Rossignon faces arraignment Monday afternoon at Martinez Superior Court docket and was held on a judge-set $7,025,000 bail, based on a county data examine Friday night time.

Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.