After Hope Center shooting, attempted murder charges
Police identified the shooter as Ricardo Martinez, 37, a felon who spent time in prison for robbery.
A resident at Berkeley's Hope Center has been charged with attempted murder after trying to shoot a fellow resident last week, according to court papers.
Berkeley police identified the shooter as Ricardo Martinez, 37, a felon who spent time in prison for robbery.
Police say Martinez came across the other man in the fourth-floor hallway of the building, at 2012 Berkeley Way, and shot at him after yelling, "You've been in my house!"
He fired his gun four times, police said.
The other man escaped into the stairway and called police, BPD wrote.
In the hours after the shooting, officers arrested Martinez and found two handguns in his apartment: an unserialized "ghost" gun in a backpack along with a 31-round magazine and 21 live rounds; and a Glock 26 with a loaded 17-round magazine, authorities said.
Ricardo Martinez. BPD
Security footage from the Hope Center corroborated the victim's account of events, police wrote.
The Alameda County DA's office charged Martinez with attempted murder, possession of a firearm by a felon, carrying a loaded firearm in public, possession of ammunition by a prohibited person and possession of a large-capacity magazine, according to charging papers.
His robbery conviction, which counted as a strike, took place in March 2009, records show.
Martinez is now being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. He is scheduled to enter a plea next week, according to jail records.
As of this week, Berkeley has had at least 12 shootings in 2025, including one by police. Last year there had been 21 shootings in the same period.
