Where was the gun? K Street jurors hear 2022 video of cousin of slain Sergio Harris
Sacramento police Detective Shaun McGovern had many questions for Sergio Harris’ cousin, Ike Harris, in the stationhouse interview room, but he returned to one again and again:
Where was the gun?
The gun that police and prosecutors say Sergio Harris, 38, fired during the shootout that left six people dead — including Harris — and 13 others wounded on downtown Sacramento’s K Street just after closing time on April 3, 2022.
Ike Harris was at his cousin’s side after he was shot and called out his name, he told McGovern in a videotaped July 2022 interview at the department’s Freeport Boulevard station.
“You’re the first one there. You rolled him over,” McGovern said at one point. “You know where the gun is.”
Jurors in the K Street mass shooting trial Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court listened to excerpts from McGovern’s hourslong interview with Ike Harris at the Freeport substation.
On the witness stand before jurors and Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman, McGovern said Harris was mostly cooperative and even allowed police to take his cellphones to download video and images recorded on K Street.
Sacramento County prosecutors brought McGovern back to the stand for more hours of video culled in the hours before the deadliest mass shooting in Sacramento history.
Bystanders Yamile Martinez, 21; Johntaya Alexander, 21, and Melinda Davis, 57, died in the shootings. Joshua Hoye-Lucchessi, 32; Harris; and Devazia Turner, 29, were involved in the shootout and were also killed, Sacramento County prosecutors said.
Dandrae Martin died in 2024 at the Sacramento County Main Jail while awaiting trial in the case.
Surviving suspects Mtula Payton and Dandrae Martin face murder charges in the killings that prosecutors argue was a gun battle between gang rivals. Attorneys for Payton and Martin counter the claims. They say the two were shot at in a spontaneous burst of gunfire and returned fire to defend themselves.
In the interview room, Ike Harris said, yes, he rolled over his cousin’s body. Yes, he took his cousin’s keys and cell phone. But, not a gun, he repeatedly insisted.
“I flipped him over. I stretched him out. I’ve got video of me. I’m not going to be, with cops around, getting a gun,” Ike Harris said.
He told McGovern that someone else — a Vallejo man he knew only by the nickname “5-Star” — removed the weapon.
“5-Star took care of that. Dude took that and got rid of it,” Harris said.
Later, Harris told McGovern he received a phone call from a Bay Area number.
“He told me, ‘I got the gun.’”
But the weapon’s whereabouts remained a mystery. Harris said the gun was likely destroyed.
While the weapon’s whereabouts remained unknown, Harris also revealed information that appeared to support prosecutors’ theory that longstanding gang animosity fueled the shooting.
Sergio Harris knew everyone, his cousin said. He also had a longstanding dispute — “beef,” his cousin said — with some of those on K Street when the shooting started. The conflict dated back to 2012, but both sides clung to the animosity.
“These were two groups of people who didn’t get along at all,” Ike Harris said.
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