The man was struck at least once and knocked unconscious, causing him to fall to the ground, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Antioch police are investigating a June 15 smash-and-grab theft of $500,000 worth of jewelry from a JC Penny store by a suspect who hid in the store until after it closed. ANTIOCH – The death of a man killed in January in Antioch was ruled a homicide in a recent coroner’s report, according to police.
The Contra Costa County Coroner found that the 39-year-old man’s death was a homicide in the report, which was sent to police in July, Antioch police said in a news release Monday. The man was struck at least once and knocked unconscious, causing him to fall to the ground, police said. He was found unconscious by officers who were responding to reports of an assault in the area of the 1900 block of D Street, according to police.
Authorities, including a crew from the Contra Costa County Fire Department, aided the man, but he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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