ORINDA (KRON/BCN) — Felony charges have been filed against a man in connection to a February fight at an Orinda house party that left a victim with an injury he is still hospitalized for, prosecutors said Tuesday.Falealea Tytus Maka, 21, was charged with attempted murder and aggravated mayhem along with an enhancement for causing a person to become comatose and/or suffer a brain injury, Deputy District Attorney Melissa Smith said.
The charges stem from a Feb. 13 incident that Maka was arrested for in unincorporated Alameda County on Wednesday, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.
At 1:53 a.m. the date of the incident, Maka was allegedly involved in a fight that broke out during a house party on Camino Encinas. Sheriff’s officials said Maka knocked the person he was fighting unconscious andcontinued to beat the victim afterwards.
The victim, who is still in the hospital after suffering a serious head injury initially reported as life-threatening, is a 21-year-old Florida man who was attending Chabot College in Hayward, according to the sheriff’s office.
Maka was later identified as a suspect and arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service as well as a unit with the sheriff’s office. He also had anoutstanding arrest warrant in Utah in connection with a home invasion and armed robbery, sheriff’s officials said.
He has been booked into Martinez Detention Facility on suspicionof attempted murder and is being held on $2 million bail.
He’s slated to make his first court appearance in Martinez for an arraignment at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.