Overview
- Alameda County charged Veronica Fonseca, 54, and Anthony Fox, 56, with murder and burglary in the 1993 shooting of Zachary Jackson, with a firearm-use enhancement.
- U.S. Marshals arrested Fonseca in Queens, New York, and Sioux City police arrested Fox in Iowa on Nov. 6, and both remain jailed awaiting extradition to California.
- Investigators say they believe Fox fired the fatal shots and that both suspects were at the scene.
- The case went cold after an early focus on a landlord dispute and multiple 1993 interviews with Fonseca yielded no charges in an era of limited forensic tools.
- Detectives credit new cooperative witnesses and multi-agency help, including the FBI Oakland field office and the California Department of Justice, while withholding motive and evidentiary details to protect the prosecution.