An Alameda County jury convicted Jamazea Kittell of first-degree murder in the shooting of Perez Kalief-Chambers.

Thursday's guilty verdicts are the jury's finding on the Oakland counts. They are not the prison term. The Solano County case, in which Judge Robert Bowers held him for assault with a deadly weapon rather than attempted murder of a police officer, is still pending. Thirty-three, in the conviction coverage, and thirty-one, in the July 2025 charging story, are not the same age.

Hoodline reported Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, in a story by Eileen Vargas, that an Alameda County jury convicted Jamazea Kittell, 33, of first-degree murder for a drive-by shooting that killed Perez Kalief-Chambers, 23, on the 9400 block of C Street in Oakland in July 2025. Hoodline reported that, according to The Mercury News, the jury also convicted him of assault with a firearm and of possessing guns and ammunition as a felon, and that the murder conviction includes enhancements for using a gun and for carrying out a drive-by shooting. The Bay Area Brief reported the same day, citing Bay Area News Group, that he was convicted of first-degree murder with those two enhancements and of the same firearm and ammunition counts. Hoodline reported he is due back for sentencing and that a date has not been confirmed. The Bay Area Brief reported he faces 50 years to life for the murder and the firearm enhancement alone, and that he remains in jail awaiting sentencing. Fifty years to life is the exposure that account prints. It is not a term a judge has imposed.

The Mercury News reported July 17, 2025, in a story by Nate Gartrell and Jakob Rodgers updated at 4:33 a.m. PDT on July 18, that Jamazea Kittell, 31, was charged that Wednesday with murdering 23-year-old Kalief Perez-Chambers on July 9 on the 9400 block of C Street. Perez Kalief-Chambers, in the Oct. 29 Hoodline story and in the Bay Area Brief, and Kalief Perez-Chambers, in that Mercury News charging story, are not the same order of names. Thirty-three and thirty-one are not the same age. The Mercury News reported he was held at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail on charges of killing Perez-Chambers, shooting an unoccupied car, and possessing guns and ammunition as a felon. Assault with a firearm, in the conviction accounts, and shooting an unoccupied car, in the charging story, are not the same description of a count. The Mercury News reported police said Kalief Perez-Chambers and a friend were working on a car when Kittell pulled up in an Acura, opened fire, and fled, and that the friend was underneath the car, was not hit, and only heard the shots. Hoodline reported the second man was underneath the vehicle and was narrowly missed. The Bay Area Brief reported he was not hit and that the motive is still unclear. The friend is not named here.

The Bay Area Brief, citing Bay Area News Group, reported investigators tied Kittell to an Acura on surveillance video that included a service visit in Modesto and a stop at a Target in Livermore in late June 2025, and that he was arrested July 11, 2025, at his brother's home in Apple Valley. The Mercury News charging story reported he reached Apple Valley before police arrested him, and that police identified him through the Acura after he took it to a service station and gave employees his real name, and also from news photographs of him in a wheelchair. The brother's home, the July 11 date, Modesto, and the Livermore Target are the Bay Area Brief's account of Bay Area News Group. The service station and the wheelchair photographs are the July 2025 Mercury News. The Bay Area Brief reported guns were found with him, that prosecutors said none was the murder weapon, and that his lawyer argued past use of the car did not prove he was the shooter. The brother is not named here. The lawyer is not named here.

The Vallejo Sun reported Oct. 10, 2023, in a story by Scott Morris and Ryan Geller, that Solano County Superior Court Judge Robert Bowers ruled that Tuesday that Kittell should stand trial for assault with a deadly weapon rather than attempted murder of a police officer. The Sun reported Vallejo police Officer Brad Kim shot Kittell in the face on June 27, 2023, at the Grand gas station at 1401 Springs Road, at about 4 a.m., after the owner reported a burglary in progress. The Sun reported Kim testified that he felt a Dodge Charger lunge toward him while going left, and that he fired through the windshield. The Sun reported Kim was pushed onto the hood and fell, and that the Charger crashed into a gas meter across the street. The Sun reported Bowers, citing gas-station video, said the wheels started turning left while Kim was still to the right of the car, and that it appeared Kittell "just tried to leave." The Sun quoted Bowers: "Was he willing to assault the officer to effectuate his leave? And that'll be something that a jury can decide." The Sun reported Bowers then set bail at $100,000. Kittell had been held without bail since June. Bowers said he found Kittell potentially a danger because the gas-station actions indicated he was reckless, and a flight risk because he faced a long sentence. The Sun reported that, if convicted in that case, he would face 25 years to life. Twenty-five years to life, in the Sun's 2023 story, and 50 years to life, in the Bay Area Brief's account of the murder exposure, are not the same figure and are not the same case.

The Bay Area Brief reported Bay Area News Group said Kittell bailed out the day after that ruling, and that the Solano charges are still pending. Hoodline reported the Solano matter tied to the 2023 shooting remains unresolved. The Mercury News charging story reported he had been set for trial in September 2025 on charges that he rammed Kim. September 2025 was a setting in that story. Hoodline's Thursday account is that the Solano case is still open. The Sun reported he had two prior offenses. The Mercury News reported two robbery convictions in Alameda County and a gun-possession conviction in Contra Costa County, which the paper said made it illegal for him to have firearms. Two prior offenses, in October 2023, and two robbery convictions plus a gun conviction, in July 2025, are not the same tally. The Alameda County verdicts are the jury's finding on the Oakland counts. The Solano charges are still a pending case.