The Contra Costa County DA on Friday discussed the reason why they would not be charging a robbery suspect who shot a gas station worker dead during a deadly gun battle last weekend with homicide.
ANTIOCH -- The Contra Costa County DA on Friday discussed the reason why they would not be charging
Authorities haven't released surveillance video of the incident yet because one of the suspects remains at large. Authorities say Williams chased two armed robbers fleeing the Chevron Mini Mart on Contra Loma Boulevard in Antioch early Saturday morning. Williams struck one of the suspects, identified by authorities as 19-year-old Ronald Benjamin Jackson, in the leg. He then kept pursuing them. "That gunfire continued after Mr. Jackson was hit and went to the ground," said Contra Costa Deputy District Attorney Derek Butts.
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