Man charged in Oakland fistfight related shooting
OAKLAND A man who was winning a fistfight Oct before he was jumped and beaten by three of his opponent s friends prompting him to get a gun and allegedly shoot the man he had been fighting with has been charged with attempted murder and carrying a loaded firearm in community according to officers and court records The suspect Ricardo Patron of Oakland has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has a pre-trial hearing set for Dec He is being held without bail at Santa Rita Jail Related Articles East Bay man suspected of latest into UC Berkeley sorority house East Bay drug inquiry ends in arrest seizure of Inquiry underway into deadly dog attack in Fremont Two shot dead in Oakland gas station parking lot Theft of rose bushes from Oakland s Morcom Rose Garden leaves a large number of upset The violence which was captured on video surveillance happened about p m Oct in the block of th Avenue in the Fruitvale district Patron had gotten into a fistfight for unknown reasons with a -year-old man he did not know Patron was winning the fight when three friends of the younger man intervened and severely beat him He went to his nearby home where according to court records he got a pistol came back to the site where the four men were and allegedly shot the younger man firing several rounds at him as he tried to run away The man shot got his own transportation to a hospital and has since been disclosed Patron sought diagnostic aid at an Alameda hospital where he claimed he had been attacked in another part of Oakland Oakland police were alerted and he was arrested at the hospital after Oakland officers realized he matched the description of the suspect in the shooting and was still wearing particular of the clothing seen in the video surveillance He declined to talk to investigators