Following the shooting death of a gym custodian in Daly City last week, a Bay Area man and his mother are in police arrest. The man was singled out, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office, for asking the alleged shooter to abide by the gym’s locker room policies.
On September 29, just after 7 p.m., Daly City police were called to the 1300 block of South Mayfair Ave. in reference to a shooting. They found 60-year-old Rolando Viray Yanga dead from several gunshot wounds when they arrived.
Steve Wagstaffe, the district attorney for San Mateo County, told KTVU that Yanga was being followed by Maarij Abdullah Afridi when he left the Daly City Fitness 19 gym where he worked.
Afridi, 21, was reportedly known at the gym for “walking around barefoot, not taking care of cleaning things, and putting things in the toilet that didn’t belong there,” according to Wagstaffe. Wagstaffe claimed that after Yanga confronted Afridi about his actions, Afridi made the decision to murder him.
“The confrontation here was over cleanliness at the gym.”
After identifying the car that followed Yanga from the gym using surveillance footage, police detained Afridi and his 50-year-old mother Zaib Un Nisa Afridi the day following the shooting.
Both are being held without bond on murder charges, according to San Mateo County prison records; their next court date is October 9. Zaib Afridi is thought to be an accomplice and drove the car, according to Wagstaffe.
