Violent sex trafficker pleads guilty after opening fire on San Francisco resident
A violent sex trafficker, who was allowed by probation officials to live in San Francisco after being freed from a ten-year prison term “because he wanted to reside in the San Francisco Bay Area,” pleaded guilty today in district court to ammunition possession after shooting at a rival on a city street.
Keon Nunnelly was arrested in the small hours of December 7 2023 at the Baldwin Hotel, where he worked for the Five Keys organization. Prosecutors say he became embroiled in an argument in the hotel’s lobby which had continued in to the street, whereupon he drew a black semi-automatic pistol and opened fire.
SFPD officers recovered a black 9mm ‘ghost gun’ from a food storage area in the basement of the hotel. Nunnelly told police that the gun was his, that he owned it for his protection, and that he had fired it accidentally.
Sacramento-born Nunnelly, 40, was arrested there in 2013 on suspicion of pimping underage girls. He was convicted of sex trafficking in federal court in Sacramento and given a 10 year sentence.
In 2004 he was imprisoned for three years after firing into a vehicle and, in 2011, he received 150 days in jail after beating up a woman and threatening her one year old daughter.
Toward the end of his most recent prison term he was moved to a “residential re-entry center” in San Francisco operated by GeoCare. On his release in late 2022 he was told he could reside in San Francisco and probation officials duly transferred his supervision from the Eastern District of California to the Northern District.
This afternoon in federal court in San Francisco, Nunnelly pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition, and admitted a probation violation. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria accepted the plea and set sentencing for December 18 2024.
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