The defendant claimed that he was being hunted by a drug cartel after he allegedly shot and killed a man, but the victim happened to be a convicted drug trafficker who was armed with a pistol.
OAKLAND — Criminal proceeds have been suspended against a man accused of fatally shooting a motorist after a brief interaction in a parking lot last year, court records show.
“I was in the Navy. So I fired weapons before. So I know what gunshots sound like,” one eyewitness to the shooting testified. “He changed his statement a few times,” East Bay Regional Parks police Det. Christopher Rudy testified at the preliminary hearing.
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