Victims, suspects identified in Berkeley homicide, Oakland fatal crash

BERKELEY — The homicide victim who was shot and killed Saturday night, setting off a chain of events that left two innocent men dead, has been identified as Charles "Chill" Davis, a 25-year-old college student who recently had returned to Berkeley from Central State University in Ohio to help care for a grandmother, police and relatives said Monday.
Davis, who also went by "C.J.," was a Berkeley High School graduate, said his mother, Corinne Davis, of Berkeley.
Two men wanted in connection with the killing remained at large Monday, but police have released the names of two men who were arrested on suspicion of three counts each of murder: Stephon Anthony, 22, of San Leandro, and Anthony Price, 24, of Oakland. Police said they found two assault rifles in the Cadillac that was driven by Stephon Anthony.
The events started Saturday about 6:40 p.m. when the shooters opened fire with assault weapons on Davis at 10th Street and Allston Way in West Berkeley, killing him instantly, police said.
The four men fled the scene in a Cadillac, with Berkeley police in pursuit, from West Berkeley to North Oakland, police said. The suspects were traveling at a high speed eastbound on Aileen Street in Oakland when they ran a stop sign, hitting a Mazda heading southbound on Martin Luther King Jr. Way near Children's Hospital Oakland, police said.
The Mazda's driver was identified Monday as 27-year-old Todd Perea, of Brentwood. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The crash caused Perea's Mazda to strike a 41-year-old Berkeley man on the sidewalk in front of Children's Hospital's research institute. The man was taken to Highland Hospital, where he died, police said. His identity has not been released, police said.
Police spent Saturday night and Sunday searching the area for the two suspects, who fled on foot.
Corinne Davis said her son's killing had to be a case of mistaken identity.
"As long as (the two other suspects) are on the streets, they are going to come back to Berkeley, because C.J. is not the one they were looking for," Davis said.
She said she heard the same men were in the victim's neighborhood about two weeks ago walking down San Pablo Avenue with automatic weapons near a store called Low Cost Liquor.