Man convicted of killing a toddler, his father on a San Francisco street in 2005

"After parking their gray Acura Integra, Ridout got out of the car and noticed a man in black approaching with a gun. A flurry of bullets sprayed from the assailant's .223-caliber semiautomatic rifle, tearing through the car. Wysinger was killed, and his son, who was strapped in a car seat behind him, was mortally wounded; Naemon died at San Francisco General Hospital later that night."

"A once-close friend of the victims, Joseph Stevens, then 22, was soon fingered as the shooter. Ridout, Wysinger and Stevens grew up together in and around Randolph Street in the Lakeview neighborhood on the south side of San Francisco. Stevens even babysat Naemon in the past, SF Weekly reported at the time. The motivation for the killing was suggested to be connected to a bloody brawl on Randolph Street in 2003."

Joseph Stevens was found guilty of killing a 2-year-old boy and his father on a dead-end San Francisco street in 2005, following an earlier conviction that was overturned in 2018. On Oct. 14, 2005, Dernae Wysinger arrived at Turner Terrace with his girlfriend Jazmanika Ridout and their son Naemon; an assailant fired a .223-caliber semiautomatic rifle into their car, killing Wysinger and mortally wounding Naemon. Ridout survived with hand and leg wounds. Stevens, who grew up with the victims and had babysat Naemon, was accused of the shooting amid suggestions of retaliation related to a 2003 brawl and a 2004 manslaughter conviction of Wysinger's half-brother. The killings occurred during a period of elevated homicides in San Francisco.

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