OAKLAND — Two sets of families were shopping for last-minute gifts at a Target in Hayward on Christmas Eve when an altercation turned violent, leaving one man dead.

Now the father of the two suspects in the fatal stabbing said Wednesday his sons claim it was self-defense.

Brothers Frankie Archuelta, 22, and Jesse Archuleta, 25, both of Hayward, were arrested Saturday night and charged with murder after an altercation at the Target store at 2499 Whipple Road. The victim, Tyrone Griffin Jr. 36, of Hayward, had asked them to turn their rap music down when the fight ensued.

The Archuleta brothers were at Target shopping for last-minute gifts for the children in their family, and Griffin was also there to shop for last-minute gifts for his children.

The Archueltas’ father, who asked not to be identified, said outside the Wiley Manuel courthouse in Oakland on Wednesday that his two sons were provoked. After asking them to turn the music down, Griffin allegedly said something to them about gun play. When Frankie Archuleta walked away, Griffin allegedly attacked him with a glass champagne bottle to the side of his head.

When Frankie Archuleta fell, his older brother came to his aid and was also allegedly hit in the face, their father said.

Their father said Jesse Archuleta had a knife on him and admitted to stabbing Griffin in self-defense. Frankie Archuleta suffered some fractures on his face from the attack, he said.

Frankie Archuleta supposedly told his father Tuesday night that once police see the videos, that it will show it was self-defense.

“I’m very sorry and remorseful it happened,” the Archuleta’s father said. “I send my remorse and sorrow to the family.”

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His older son, Jesse Archuleta, is a father himself and has a 2-year-old daughter. Their father said he had a juvenile criminal history and had just gotten off probation. Frankie Archuleta also has a criminal past which includes felony grand theft and felony concealed dagger, for which he received three years’ probation, according to court records.

On Wednesday afternoon, the two brothers were charged with murder by the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.

Court documents confirm their father’s story that Griffin grabbed a wine bottle off a shelf, and hit Frankie Archuleta with it. Griffin was stabbed four times, including once in the arm by Jesse Archuleta, police said in a probable cause document. Documents affirm that Jesse Archuleta admitted to stabbing Griffin with a pocket knife.

“I’m hoping it comes out to where my sons really were defending themselves like they say they are,” their father said.

Also outside the courtroom Wednesday morning, Griffin’s family anxiously waited as well. Nicole Simmons, the mother of Griffin’s four children, said they want justice for her husband.

“I just can’t believe it,” Simmons said. “You want to play some provocative music, just turn it down. My husband’s life could have been spared.”

She called it a tragedy, and her sister Kamlia Simmons said he didn’t deserve it.

Nicole Simmons said that Griffin was stabbed in the toy aisle of the store, in front of their 4-year-old son who was with him. She got the call Saturday night that he had been stabbed, and rushed to the hospital thinking he only needed stitches. When she heard the coroner came to pick him up, she broke down, she said.

The family has set up a GoFundMe campaign for their children.