by Bob Walsh
Shuo Zeng, 34, used to be a physicist. He is now a corpse. He was sitting in a Starbucks in Montclair (the sort-of good part of Oakland) when a guy grabbed his laptop and ran. Zeng pursued. The thief jumped into a waiting getaway car. Zeng was hit and killed by the getaway car.
There was plenty of good surveillance. The cops arrested Byron O. J. Reed, 22, and Javon Eugene Lee, 21, for murder during a robbery, involuntary manslaughter, second degree robbery and mopery. Reed was out on parole at the time.
Both the newspaper and the broadcast news showed Reed's sister crying and telling him how much she loved him at court. Nobody seemed to give a shit about the dead guy. He's ethnic Chinese, so that seems reasonable. If he was Chinese and Jewish the cops might not even have bothered to arrest anybody.
Reed's sister Shaquila claims her brother was with her at her home during the robbery. They haven't arrested her for obstruction of justice. Yet.
Both men have priors for robbery. Huge surprise there.
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