I wanted to make folks aware in case they wanted to send prayers or thoughts to Suisun City’s Chuck Kingeter who’s daughter Jennifer Kingeter (26) was brutally murdered last Friday in Berkley. Some may wonder why I would put out a story about Suisun City resident or a murder that occurred in Berkley, however, Chuck Kingeter was most recently a candidate for Assembly District 11 which Jim Frazier was elected.
Please keep his family in your prayers. I’ve met Mr. Kingeter on several occasions during the course of the Assembly District 11 primary race and he was a nice guy and always a positive person. It’s sad this had to happen to his family.
The five-time felon has now been charged with the murder according to the Oakland Tribune and Berkleyside papers, however, the bigger question remains how a justice system could allow a five-time felon to walk on the streets.
According to Chuck Kingeter, he stated the following about the death on Facebook, “I will say this just this once for closure; the details are hard stabbed to death 60 x 70 times … by a 32 year old male in custody and confessed; we do not know why except he has evil in him, Jessie did not know him …… this is just a senseless killing. Please bring me peace, peace and more and more peace cause i just can’t get enough ..”
Via BerkelySide Website
A 34-year-old Berkeley man who was on parole for the 2010 attempted murder of his mother has been charged with the stabbing death on Friday of a Berkeley woman in her 20s, according to authorities and media reports.
Jamaal Anthony Prince was arraigned Monday, and charged with killing 26-year-old Jennifer Kingeter early Friday in an East Oakland apartment, according to the Oakland Tribune. Police told the Tribune she was a ballet student.
Kingeter, who went by the name “Jessica,” lived in Berkeley and had attended school in Albany when she was younger. She had recently been hired at a salon in Albany as a hair stylist, according to the salon’s website. (No one at the salon was available for comment Thursday afternoon.)
According to the Tribune, Kingeter was found in Oakland on Friday at about 2:30 a.m. “in a second-floor apartment at 5800 Walnut St., a building where police said a friend of Prince’s lived. Prince, who had cuts to his hands, was at the apartment when police arrived and was later arrested.”
The Oakland Police Department has not been available for comment.
According to the complaint filed by the Alameda County district attorney’s office, Prince was convicted in 2010 in Alameda County for assault likely to cause great bodily injury, and was sent to prison.
This followed a 2008 conviction in Alameda County for vandalism; a 1999 felony conviction in Alameda County for possession of a firearm by a felon; a 1996 felony conviction in Alameda County for grand theft; and a 2008 felony conviction in Stanislaus County for leaving the scene of a traffic accident resulting in death or permanent or serious injury.
Prince is scheduled to enter a plea Monday, Jan. 7, at 9 a.m. in Oakland, according to the Alameda County sheriff’s department. He remains in custody at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin without bail.
We will update this story as more information becomes available.
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My heart breaks for the Kingeter family. I agree with your statement about why a violent felon is on the streets. Sadly, the state has let felons loose in our neighborhoods and failed to give cities and counties enough money to supervise or house them. And don’t tell me these felons are not violent. Maybe their most recent crime wasn’t “violent,” but their rap sheets usually tell a different story.
None of this will ease the void and pain the Kingeters now suffer. I pray for them and the soul of their daughter.
God bless.
This is a horrible story. Half of it is about a violent, mentally ill, felon.
The other half is left unexplained. How did Jessica end up at 5800 Walnut Street with this man that she did not know? That is a known to be a very dangerous neighborhood, full of all the worst sorts of people and crime. Why on earth anyone would go out there at 2 in the morning with a strange man is beyond me.
I hope the details come out to serve as a warning to others.
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