OAKLAND — Two ex-convicts have been charged in the fatal shooting Aug. 24 of a San Francisco during a robbery, according to court documents and authorities.

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Related Articles West Oakland slaying victim was San Francisco man Dorsey Howard, 26, and Zuberi Steel, 29, both of Oakland, are each charged with murder and the special circumstance that the killing was in the commission of a robbery, in the death of Joachim Hanwright, 46.

Howard, the suspected gunman, was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

Hanwright, the father of two children, was in West Oakland on Aug. 24 working on a house he owned in the 1700 block of Seventh Street near the main post office.

According to authorities and court documents, the two suspects intended to rob him and were loitering outside the house waiting for him to leave.

They confronted Hanwright when he emerged and when he tried to run away he was shot, authorities said. He collapsed in the center median underneath the elevated BART tracks, where he died.

After the shooting Howard and Steel ran through Hanwright’s house but did not take anything.

Howard and Steel were eventually identified as the suspects through witnesses and video surveillance and were both arrested Aug. 31.

According to court documents, Howard has prior felony convictions for first-degree burglary with a person present in 2009 and first-degree residential burglary in 2011. He served prison time for both convictions.

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Steel has a 2006 sale of cocaine conviction and a 2012 conviction for felon in possession of a firearm and went to prison in both cases.

Both men are being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail.