OAKLAND — Charges have been filed in the stabbing death of a man last month at a park in East Oakland, prosecutors said.
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In addition to murder, Oakland resident Ottoniel Sales Garcia is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.
The victim — identified as Aldon Rochel Mata Cardona, 19, of Oakland — was found suffering from at least one stab wound at San Antonio Park in the 1700 block of East 19th Street around 6:50 p.m. on May 23, according to the Oakland Police Department. He was taken to an area hospital, where he died a few hours later.
Police believe Mata Cardona spent several hours at the park before he got into a dispute with another person and was stabbed. Sales Garcia was later arrested in connection with the killing, the 20th homicide investigated by Oakland police this year.
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Mata Cardona came to the United States from Guatemala four years ago, according to a relative. He worked as a waiter in Alameda and lived a few blocks from the park, where he both played and watched soccer games. The relative, who did not want to be named, said Mata Cardona was a “low-key guy” who “loved soccer and other sports.”
Sales Garcia is scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning at the Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland.
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