SAN DIEGO An alleged gang member accused in a pair of killings over the past 13 months in Emerald Hills pleaded not guilty Friday to two counts of murder and other felony charges. A co-defendant in the case, who is not in custody and has not been formally charged, is also suspected in taking part in the slaying last year as well as committing a 2016 murder at the same Emerald Hills park where a victim was gunned down last month, according to prosecutors. San Diego police arrested 21-year-old Kenneth Earl Brooks last week on suspicion that he and an accomplice, 23-year-old Tahjee Ector, shot and killed Arif Abdalla on May 31, 2020. A third man is also named in a criminal complaint as allegedly taking part in the slaying, though he’s not named as a co-defendant in the case.
SAN DIEGO San Diego police on Tuesday released the name of a 44-year-old woman found fatally shot Sunday in a car at Emerald Hills Park. She was identified as Tamara Dorena Shellum, the registered owner of the car she died in, police Lt. Andra Brown said. San Diego Fire-Rescue Department personnel who were in the park were asked to check on her just before 10:30 a.m. Sunday. She was in a Chevrolet Monte Carlo parked on Bethune Court at the entrance to the park. When fire personnel approached the car, they noticed bullet holes in the windshield, Brown said. Advertisement