Zuberi Sharp, 26, admitted to second-degree murder in the pickaxe killing of his 15-year-old half-brother Zayde Koehohou. The Ventura County District Attorney's Office announced the guilty plea on Monday for the December 2024 attack in a shed behind their Newbury Park home. Sharp faces sentencing on May 5.
On December 5, 2024, Zuberi Sharp attacked Zayde Koehohou, who had cerebral palsy, in a converted shed at their family's home in Newbury Park, California. Their uncle heard a loud thud and entered to find Sharp standing over Zayde holding a pickaxe. Zayde suffered severe head wounds and died before reaching the hospital after his mother, Jante Keohohou, called 911 around 8 p.m., the Ventura County District Attorney's Office said in a press release announcing the plea on April 2, 2026. Sharp fled naked, wielding the pickaxe, and was arrested at a nearby high school. He had been rescued from a storm drain hours earlier due to mental health issues, according to local reports from KTLA. Keohohou told the Thousand Oaks Acorn that Sharp 'didn't know what he was doing' and that her sons 'loved each other.' Sharp also pleaded guilty to special circumstances for attacking a vulnerable person. He is the son of Calvin Sharp, convicted in 2007 for killing a 6-year-old boy with a meat cleaver. Sentencing is set for May 5.