Man whose uncle walked in on him slaughtering his own 15-year-old brother in a shed with a pickaxe learns his fate

A California antheral who admitted to sidesplitting his teenage half-brother with a pickaxe could walk the remainder of his beingness down bars.

Zuberi Sharp, 26, pleaded blameworthy to second-degree murder connected March 30 successful transportation with the 2024 decease of his half-brother, 15-year-old Zayde Koehohou. According to a property merchandise from the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, Sharp was sentenced to 15 years to beingness connected Tuesday. The DA said Sharp admitted to the murder and the peculiar allegations "that helium personally inflicted large bodily injury, on with aggravating factors that helium utilized a limb successful the committee of the transgression and that the unfortunate was peculiarly vulnerable."

As Law&Crime antecedently reported, Sharp's uncle told constabulary helium heard a "thud" arsenic helium walked to a shed astatine the family's location successful Newbury Park, California, connected Dec. 5, 2024. The uncle knew Sharp and Zayde were some successful the shed, and helium was walking retired to "check connected the boys."

When the uncle looked wrong the shed, helium saw "Sharp lasting implicit Zayde holding a pickaxe." The boys' parent called 911, and Sharp fled the scene. He was aboriginal recovered bare successful a precocious schoolhouse shot field, wherever helium was arrested. He had the execution limb with him.

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Deputies from the Ventura County Sheriff's Office arrived astatine the location to find Zayde's parent cradling her lad successful her lap. Zayde, who had cerebral palsy, suffered terrible wounds to his head. He died earlier helium reached the hospital.

In an interrogation with section news, the boys' parent explained that Sharp suffered from intelligence issues and "didn't cognize what helium was doing." She insisted that Sharp "loves his brothers, my boys loved each other."