East Sacramento shooting suspect had active felony case against woman on Valentine’s Day

The suspect in Thursday’s robbery and homicide outside an East Sacramento tennis club has a pending felony case charging him with inflicting injury on a girlfriend and maliciously defacing her car with graffiti, court records show.

DeSean Leon Brasser Jr., 23, faces two felony counts stemming from a Feb. 14 incident in which he was charged with injury on a current or former girlfriend that resulted in a “traumatic condition,” Sacramento Superior Court records show.

He also was charged with defacing her vehicle and causing more than $400 in damage during the alleged Valentine’s Day incident.

The case was filed in April and court records show Brasser originally was held on $50,000 bail. But he was not arraigned until July, when a public defender was appointed, according to court records.

His next hearing in that case was scheduled for Dec. 12.

Brasser was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail early Friday on suspicion of homicide and robbery in connection with Thursday’s shooting of a man at 12:30 p.m. in an alley near the Sutter Lawn Tennis Club at 39th and N streets.

This story was originally published October 21, 2022 at 9:39 AM.