More than three years after a shooting between rival gang members left a man dead on the Genentech campus in South San Francisco, two men believed to have been behind the high-speed chase leading up to the incident are being charged for their roles, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.Â
Emon Beirut Brown, 30, and Marcel Earle Chapman, 29, are facing life sentences on charges of murder with special circumstances of carrying out the gang-related activities for their role in the July 27, 2015, shooting death of Demarea Taylor. Recently convicted in San Francisco of assault with a deadly weapon related to a July 28, 2015, shooting, Brown and Chapman are now in custody in San Mateo County on no bail, according to prosecutors.Â
Brown and Chapman allegedly fraudulently rented a car and were driving in San Francisco when they saw three members of a rival gang in another car and started chasing the vehicle. The chase allegedly ended on a dead-end road on the Genentech campus and Chapman is said to have fired 11 shots at the three rival gang members in the other car and they ran away, hitting and killing Taylor, according to prosecutors.Â
When Brown and Chapman appeared in court Tuesday, the county’s private defender program was appointed to their cases. They will next appear in court Dec. 20 for identification of counsel and arraignment, according to prosecutors.Â
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