OAKLAND — An alleged member of a San Francisco gang has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing two people, one of whom was later named as a suspect in the tragic killing of a 1-year-old boy during a rolling gun battle.

The case and several related investigations are the latest example of San Francisco gang conflicts spilling into the East Bay, with deadly results.

Darious Pierre Smith, 36, of Pleasant Hill, is an alleged member of San Francisco’s Chopper City gang and a longtime suspect in the fatal shooting of 30-year-old Richard Lamont Duncan III and the drive-by killing of 34-year-old Keison “Keke” Lee. Both homicides occurred in Oakland, with Duncan being fatally shot by a masked gunman in June 2022 and Lee being gunned down in East Oakland five months later, in November.

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