East Sacramento homicide victim identified. Charles Starzynski, 70, led Capital Public Radio
The man shot and killed during a daylight robbery Thursday in East Sacramento was a former program director at Capital Public Radio.
The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Charles Starzynski. Starzynski helmed Sacramento public radio stations KXPR-FM and KXJZ-FM at Sacramento State for nearly 20 years from 1979 to 1998. He was 70 years old.
The homicide in the Fabulous 40s neighborhood was the city’s 49th of 2022.
“This is yet another example of vulnerable people in our community being tragically affected by gun violence,” Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester said Thursday. “The community is right to be outraged by this unacceptable behavior.”
Starzynski was fatally shot about 12:30 p.m. in an alley near the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club at 39th and N streets, Sacramento police officials said in a news release. Starzynski was pronounced dead at the scene.
Starzynski was also a business partner with wife Karsan Elliott, owner of Elliott’s Fine Nutrition stores in Folsom and Citrus Heights, which grew out of the pioneering natural foods store Elliott’s Natural Foods.
Sacramento police including a department tactical team arrested DeSean Leon Brasser Jr., 23, late Thursday in the slaying after tracking the man to an apartment complex on Florin Road and Shoal Court in Sacramento’s Pocket neighborhood following a traffic stop.
Brasser was booked into Sacramento County Main Jail early Friday on suspicion of murder and first-degree robbery in the deadly shooting. He is being held without bail pending a scheduled arraignment Monday.
Brasser was scheduled to appear Dec. 12 in Sacramento Superior Court on two felony counts connected to a Feb. 14 incident in which he was alleged to have beaten his girlfriend and defaced her car. The alleged attack left the woman in a “traumatic condition,” Sacramento Superior Court records showed.
This story was originally published October 21, 2022 at 4:53 PM.
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