A California banker expecting his fourth child was fatally shot allegedly by a neighbor who had been accused of terrorizing his family.
On Thursday, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office filed murder charges against Jamal Thomas, 43, in the death of 44-year-old Miles Armstead, a wealth management banker at Fremont Bank, who was shot multiple times in front of his former Oakland home last Friday afternoon.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Armstead’s family had moved out of the home because of Thomas, a former neighbor who had been previously evicted from his home. But Armstead, who was remodeling his former home to prepare it to sell, came back occasionally to work on the house.
Thomas is also charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
The first incident occurred on March 28 when Thomas allegedly threw a large rock through a house window after Armstead’s pregnant wife made eye contact with him. The rock left a baseball-size hole in the window. According to an Oakland Police probable cause statement obtained by PEOPLE, Armstead’s wife, who cut her hand on the shattered glass, believed Thomas “intended to hurt her and her unborn child.”