Quick Take
27-year-old Jakaella Porter turned herself in to local law enforcement on Monday in connection with a shooting outside of the Crow’s Nest restaurant in Santa Cruz in August. She faces three counts of felony accessory after the fact.
A woman sought in connection with a shooting outside of the Crow’s Nest restaurant in August has turned herself in, according to the Santa Cruz Police Department.
Jakaella Porter, 27, self-surrendered to the Santa Cruz County Jail on Monday, having traveled to Santa Cruz from Southern California to do so. She was arraigned in court on Wednesday morning, and faces three counts of felony accessory after the fact for allegedly acting as an accomplice to Moses Dollar, who faces an attempted murder and multiple gun charges. He pleaded not guilty in late September.
SCPD Deputy Chief Jon Bush said Thursday that investigators were eventually able to get a license plate number for a vehicle seen leaving the scene the night of the shooting Aug. 8, described as a black Dodge Charger, leading to the identification of Dollar and Porter.
Bush said that while investigators have yet to determine a motive in the shooting, it appears that Dollar, 27, and Porter did not know the two victims prior to the incident. Most likely, there was some kind of altercation at the scene of the crime that led to the shooting, he said. Porter is a former Santa Cruzan and attended Santa Cruz High School.
“I believe the female that we arrested has family here, but we don’t know if that’s what brought them here or what they were doing at the time,” he said.
Bush said one of the victims has been released from the hospital, while the other was still recovering Thursday.
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