OAKLAND — Despite a defense attorney insisting he was a “peacemaker” and family protector, a Stockton man has been ordered to stand trial on charges of murdering his sister’s boyfriend and shooting a family dog during a heated confrontation outside of an Oakland residence, court records show.
“The video clearly shows that the victim in the case pulls his shirt off in the street, which is an indication somebody wants to fist fight, and he’s shot in an almost point-blank range repeatedly,” Judge Kimberly Colwell said at the August preliminary hearing where she held Brown to answer on the charges.
Family of Bell’s girlfriend, and police, testified that Bell’s girlfriend accused Bell of assaulting her and that she called Brown, her brother, while he was in Fremont. Brown later told police he came to Bell’s family’s home to get his sister into his car and leave. He claimed Bell had a pistol with an extended magazine, which none of the other eyewitnesses mentioned seeing, according to the testimony.