OAKLAND — A man has been charged with murder and other crimes in the fatal shooting March 13 of a 24-year-old Santa Rosa woman he was in a dating relationship with who was killed during an argument over the use of a car, according to authorities and court records.
Besides the murder count, the suspect, Robert Snead, 25, was also charged Monday with felonies of carjacking, carrying a loaded firearm in public, carrying a concealed firearm within a vehicle and a misdemeanor count of disobeying a court order.
He is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail and is to be arraigned on the charges Friday.
He is accused of killing Kailie Brannum, whom police said he had been in a dating relationship with for about six months.
She was fatally shot about 8:25 p.m. March 13 in a motel parking lot in the 1800 block of Embarcadero near the Oakland Estuary.
Police said Snead had been staying at the motel and Brannum came there to see him. They were in her Honda sedan when they got into an argument about him wanting to use the vehicle; she disagreed, authorities said. Snead allegedly left her body in the parking lot before driving away in the car. Brannum was pronounced deceased at the lot.
Snead was spotted driving the Honda about 2:45 a.m. March 14 in San Francisco. San Francisco police briefly pursued the vehicle before it crashed in the area of the 400 block of First Street. He tried to flee on foot but was quickly captured. A semi-automatic pistol, that police said was stolen from an unspecified location, was recovered in the area.
Snead declined to talk to investigators or provide a court-ordered DNA sample, authorities said.
