By Jimmy Lee, Director of Public Affairs, Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff
Victim Olajawon Walker in a 2013 photo on his Facebook page.
On Friday, April 24, 2020, at about 7:52 PM, Bay Station Deputy Sheriffs were dispatched to a report that someone was shot at the 1000 block of Mariposa Avenue in Rodeo.
Deputies arrived finding a man on the street suffering from a gunshot wound. The fire department and an ambulance responded. The man was later pronounced deceased at the scene. He has been identified as 24-year-old Olajawon Walker of San Pablo.
According to his Facebook page and an internet search, he attended Pinole Valley High School and John Swett High School. According to friends, he leaves behind one child. In addition, Walker was arrested multiple times by Richmond, Oakland and Pinole Police Departments and the Contra Costa, Solano and San Bernardino Counties Sheriff’s Departments between 2016 and 2020 on charges of pimping, loitering with intent to commit prostitution, false imprisonment/human trafficking, spousal/cohabitant abuse, petty theft, receiving or concealing stolen property, unlawful use of willfully obtained personal identification, failure to appear, resisting arrest and probation violations.
Detectives from the Homicide Unit and personnel from the crime lab responded to the location. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with any information on this case is asked to contact the Sheriff’s Office at (925) 646-2441. For any tips, email: tips@so.cccounty.us or call (866) 846-3592 to leave an anonymous voice message.
Allen Payton contributed to this report.
D**N!!!’n THE YOU G MAN IS DECEASED. I DONT NEED TO KNOW HIS ALLEGED BACKGROUND….REPORTERS SHOULD NOT DO THAT…..H*LL YOURE KILLING HIM ALL OVER AGAIN.
This article is disgusting, disrespectful, and inconsiderate. So what about his past. He has a family who loves him. That still does not give anybody the right to take someone’s life. For the asshole who wrote this article, if you know so much maybe you should have added like he lost his mother and never knew his father. He loved animals. Everybody has a past, but I don’t see them adding white people past like kidnapper or molester. You need to learn respect and be fired. RIP Fan, we love you and will miss you. The most important part is if anyone know anything please come forward. We all know the police don’t care.
Not one single thing inappropriate with this write up.
y’all did not have to put his whole criminal record out there like that.
Regardless to whatever he did he never killed anyone he was a good young man he was family to everyone in rodeo everyone have a pass and yes if he was a white man he would not have been reviewed like this so sad Respect is everything in he deserve it LOVE YOU FAN
It’s unfortunate that he was killed and hopefully his killer will be found and brought to justice. But, he was a criminal who was arrested multiple times, and again, just this year. Publishing his criminal record gives people a better understanding of who he was and perhaps why he was killed. It has nothing to do with race, as we report about the crimes of people of any and all races, creeds and skin colors. So, don’t even try to play the race card.
We stand by what was written about him, If there is anything not factual about it, please provide the correction, as someone did about him having only one child, not two, which was corrected.
You should remove this post or defect his criminal record because to correct you he murder had nothing to do with his criminal record he was killed by one of his one of his own peers this article is sick you should not be able to publish anything
Faaawk you Jimmy Lee!
R.I.P FAN!