{"id":7481,"date":"2026-08-22T10:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:36:54","slug":"san-jose-police-arrest-man-suspected-of-killing-two-prep-football-players-from-fairfield-and-el-cerrito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7481","title":{"rendered":"San Jose police arrest man suspected of killing two prep football players from Fairfield and El Cerrito"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 After spending almost exactly one year as a fugitive with a pending murder case, a Vallejo rapper has been arrested and booked into the Solano County jail on charges that he killed a recent Armijo High graduate in Fairfield, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7479\">Horoscopes August 22, 2026: Kristen Wiig, explore the possibilities<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adonnis Evans, 20, who raps under the stage name \u201cLul Dada,\u201d was arrested this week during a traffic stop in San Jose. He has been booked into a Fairfield jail and is expected to be arraigned next week on murder charges in the August 2025 killing. Last year, just weeks after the homicide, Solano County prosecutors charged Evans with fatally shooting 19-year-old Tamarcus Williams on the 300 block of West Texas Street in Fairfield, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Evans is also suspected of participating in the killing of 18-year-old Guardian Harper, a football star from El Cerrito and Benicia high schools who was gunned down at a house party in Bay Point. in June 2025, seven weeks before Williams\u2019 death. The motive had to do with a rivalry between a gang in Vallejo\u2019s Country Club Crest neighborhood and a rival group, whose members included not Harper, but one of his relatives, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Evans has not been charged in Harper\u2019s killing, but police secured an arrest warrant to question him last year. Despite the pending murder charge in Solano, Evans continued to put out music and evaded capture. He also allegedly threatened to kill a well-known crime YouTuber who teased a video about the homicides.<\/p>\n<p>Last June, the popular YouTube creator known as Swamp Storiez posted a short video discussing the facts of Harper and Williams\u2019 killings, and said after he teased a longer video about the incident, the suspect had sent him a message threatening to \u201cput you on a (memorial) t-shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7477\">Asking Eric: The kid got bullied, and his parents didn\u2019t want to make a fuss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the since-deleted video, the YouTuber appeared masked on camera and discussed his surprise when he realized the suspect was still free. He blamed \u201cCalifornia,\u201d without elaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Evans cannot be bailed out of jail.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 8, 2025, Evans shot into a Kia containing Williams outside the Fairfield smoke shop, while Evans\u2019 girlfriend was buying them corn chips inside. Williams died inside the parked car before emergency responders arrived. Afterward, Evans allegedly ran to his waiting Nissan and the two drove south toward San Jose, according to police.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Williams, a student athlete at Armijo High, was remembered as \u201cmore than just a player,\u201d but a part of the team\u2019s \u201cfamily,\u201d in an Armijo Royals Facebook page post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe brought laughter to the locker room and big tackles on the field,\u201d the post says.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=7476\">Harriette Cole: Why would you stay with a guy who says he\u2019s not your boyfriend?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the year he spent as a fugitive, Adonnis &#8220;Lul Dada&#8221; Evans also allegedly threatened to kill the popular crime YouTuber known as Swamp Storiez, according to a since-deleted video from the account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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