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‘He was gonna kill us’: Oakland murder case dismissed for ‘insufficient evidence’

Summary by The Mercury News
OAKLAND — Alameda County prosecutors dismissed the murder case against a San Leandro man about a year after conflicting stories by eyewitnesses gave rise to a potential self-defense theory, court records show. Anthony Ortega, 27, was charged in 2023 with murder in the death of 23-year-old Juan Garcia Salazar Jr., a resident of Richmond and Stockton, over what started as an argument about a car blocking the roadway, according to court records. Pr…

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The Mercury news broke the news in San Jose, United States on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
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