A San Francisco jury has convicted Marquez Harrison and LaCarla Carr of first-degree murder in the killing of Daron Raynaldo, closing out a case that began with a Thanksgiving Day shooting in Potrero Hill nearly 12 years ago. Harrison was also convicted of personally discharging a firearm causing death and of being a felon in possession of a firearm, prosecutors said.
The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced the verdicts in a post from SF District Attorney
, stating that the office “secured the conviction” after “a trial by jury for homicide and several other charges.” District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that her office had secured the convictions, according to the same post.
The case traces back to November 27, 2014, when Raynaldo was shot multiple times while standing in front of his home on the 700 block of Missouri Street, according to the San Francisco Police Department. He later died of his injuries at San Francisco General Hospital, police said. The department described Raynaldo as 23 years old.
A Getaway Car and a Silver Acura
Investigators said a man got out of a silver Acura TL and opened fire, striking Raynaldo multiple times before fleeing, according to reporting by the Mercury News. Detectives believed Harrison was the shooter while his co-defendant drove the getaway car, a police spokesman told SFGate at the time.
Police arrested Harrison, then 20, along with a woman identified as Myesha Carr, 32, on December 23, 2014, in connection with both the killing and alleged burglaries and robberies. That name is at odds with later court reporting, which identified the co-defendant as LaCarla Carr — the name used in this week’s conviction announcement. The discrepancy between “Myesha Carr” in the original police and news accounts and “LaCarla Carr” in the DA’s statement and later court coverage has not been explained in the available record.
Nearly 12 Years Between Arrest and Verdict
The arrests came nearly 12 years before the verdict.
The case dragged on even further. Harrison and Carr had been booked into San Francisco County Jail in 2014.
What the Jury Decided
In the end, the jury found both defendants guilty of first-degree murder. Harrison faced the additional firearm-related convictions, while the DA’s announcement did not detail further specifics of Carr’s verdict beyond the murder charge.
