A San Leandro man was shot in the leg after confronting people he believed had stolen his car, and police have identified the suspect as a 22-year-old Oakland man already facing two pending armed robbery cases. Despite tying a stolen .40-caliber pistol found on the suspect to the caliber used in the shooting, prosecutors declined to file charges over the shooting itself, opting instead for weapons counts.
The suspect, Queyan Turner, was arrested June 30 on suspicion of shooting the man during the confrontation over the stolen vehicle, according to The Mercury News. Police identified Turner as a member of the 69 Ville gang and say he was linked to the shooting because a car he allegedly owns was found at the scene. Turner was never charged over the shooting, and instead pleaded not guilty to felony counts of possessing a concealed weapon and a high-capacity magazine, along with a charge of possessing a stolen pistol at the time of his arrest.
The gun recovered from Turner was a .40-caliber pistol, which the Mercury News reports matches the caliber of the weapon used to shoot the victim in the leg. Even so, prosecutors declined to file a case tied directly to the shooting, leaving the weapons charges as the only counts stemming from the confrontation. Turner was released on $150,000 bail, and a judge ordered him not to possess firearms while out of custody.
A Suspect With a Lengthy Pending Case List
Turner was already facing two separate pending armed robbery cases before the San Leandro shooting. He is a suspect in a 2023 strong-arm robbery in which a 73-year-old man leaving a bank was allegedly robbed of $200,000, though he was never charged in that case, per the same account. Prosecutors did charge Turner in a similar Emeryville ATM robbery from June 2024, as well as in a Facebook Marketplace robbery in Oakland involving a $17,000 Rolex watch.
Turner was also reportedly seen displaying an assault weapon in a 2023 Instagram Live feed, according to the outlet's reporting. That detail, combined with the pending robbery cases, is part of why police flagged him as a suspect once his car turned up at the scene of the San Leandro shooting.
Gang Ties Trace Back to East Oakland's 69th Avenue
Police identified Turner as a member of 69 Ville, a gang whose name traces to East Oakland's former 69th Avenue housing projects — a neighborhood that gained national notoriety in the late 1970s and 1980s under drug kingpin Felix Mitchell, whose operation federal authorities recognized as one of the country's first large-scale, street gang-run drug enterprises, according to LocalWiki. The neighborhood's reputation was later cemented in Bay Area hip-hop history by East Oakland rapper Seagram, the first West Coast artist signed to Houston's Rap-A-Lot Records, who recorded the 1992 song “The Ville” about the 69th Avenue projects before he was killed in a 1996 Oakland shooting, according to The Hip Hop Museum.
Why Gun Charges Alone Can Still Mean Prison Time
Even without a shooting charge, Turner faces significant potential prison exposure through the weapons counts alone. Under California Penal Code Section 25400, carrying a concealed firearm is normally a misdemeanor, but it becomes a felony carrying up to three years in prison if the gun is stolen, if the person is an active gang participant, or if they have prior felony convictions, according to FindLaw. Separately, possessing stolen property such as a firearm under Penal Code Section 496 is a wobbler offense that can carry up to three years in jail or state prison when statutory enhancements apply, per FindLaw. Possessing a high-capacity magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds is its own offense under Penal Code Section 32310, punishable by up to three years in custody.
Bail for gang-related felony charges in Alameda County typically follows a standard schedule; participation in a criminal street gang under Penal Code 186.22 carries a standard bail of $25,000, while gang offenses facing potential life sentences require a court hearing with no bail set automatically, according to the Alameda County Superior Court.
Case Fits Into Broader Regional Crackdown
The San Leandro shooting comes amid an ongoing regional effort to curb gun violence and gang activity. A joint federal and local law enforcement surge conducted between March and July resulted in the seizure of 76 illegal firearms and federal charges against 51 defendants across Oakland and Alameda County, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Meanwhile, vehicle theft — the underlying dispute that triggered the confrontation — has been trending downward across the region. San Leandro recorded 1,003 motor vehicle thefts in 2024, a 49% drop from 1,980 in 2023, with between 45 and 53 thefts reported monthly through mid-2026, according to the City of San Leandro. Statewide, vehicle thefts fell 25.8% in 2025, with Alameda County recording 12,277 thefts, a 36.1% drop tied to targeted California Highway Patrol enforcement, according to data reported by FOX 11.
Yet gun violence tied to confrontations like this one remains a persistent problem even as property crime falls. Statewide violent crime dropped 5.3% in 2024, but aggravated assaults involving firearms remained 33.6% higher than pre-pandemic 2019 levels, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. The San Leandro case underscores that tension: a property crime that ended not with a stolen car recovered cleanly, but with a bystander shot and a gang-linked suspect walking free on bail while his weapons case proceeds.
