UpdatedFri, Apr 30, 2021 at 8:13 am PT
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Angel D. Butler, 28, (left) and Jovante D. Williams, 28, were no longer in jail as of Friday morning. (Dublin Police Services)
DUBLIN, CA The Alameda County District Attorney s Office will not press charges against two Dublin residents arrested on suspicion of killing a rising star in the Bay Area rap scene, KRON reported.
Angel D. Butler, 28, and Jovante D. Williams, 28, were taken into custody Tuesday and faced murder charges in the killing of Mark Alexander Jr., 26, known to fans as Lil Yase. They were no longer in custody at Santa Rita Jail as of Friday morning.
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Gonzalez died April 19 after police pinned him to the ground for at least five minutes. The Alameda Police Department said Gonzalez suffered a medical emergency after a scuffle with officers.
Julia Sherwin, the attorney representing Gonzalez s family, said Gonzalez s actions that day didn t warrant law enforcement response from the start. He s unarmed. He s just got a comb. He s been combing his hair and he s been loitering there for half an hour, she told NPR s Eric Westervelt. Why this required a law enforcement response right at that moment is beyond me.
A California woman was arrested by Berkeley police last week over an alleged hate crime involving a delivery driver.
Police said Tuesday that when they responded to a call on April 18 they encountered a 35-year-old woman and her boyfriend, who had both followed a package delivery driver they believed was driving too fast in the area.
The woman, later identified by police as Julie Walrand, and her boyfriend allegedly prevented the driver from leaving the area, with Walrand using “hateful language disparaging people of color.
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She was arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment, battery, using offensive words and “willfully threatening a person based on their perceived characteristics,” police said.
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