California suspect formally charged in ex-Cal Bears star Gene Ransom’s shooting death

Taking pictures suspect Juan Angel Garcia, 25, from San Francisco, arrested within the I-880 freeway taking pictures demise of Gene Ransom, was booked Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, on suspicion of homicide at Alameda County Jail in Dublin, Calif.
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A suspect who was arrested in California on Saturday in reference to the taking pictures demise of former California Golden Bears school basketball star Gene Ransom has been formally charged with homicide, in accordance with authorities. 

Juan Angel Garcia, 25, was charged Monday and faces an extra cost of taking pictures at an occupied car after he allegedly shot and killed Ransom, 65, throughout Friday’s rush hour as they have been each driving alongside Interstate 880 in Oakland, FOX 2 of the Bay Space reported.

The suspect then allegedly fled the scene however was apprehended Saturday morning by the California Freeway Patrol, police stated.

CHP officers stated Ransom had been shot within the head earlier than he crashed his automobile right into a guardrail, KGO-TV of San Francisco reported.

Alameda County prosecutors, who charged Garcia, didn't disclose a doable motive for the crime however Freeway Patrol investigators stated the deadly taking pictures might have resulted from highway rage.

Northbound lanes for I-880 have been shut down for 5 hours following the taking pictures taking pictures, officers stated. 

Gene “The Dream” Ransom was a star athlete throughout his time at Cal, the place he scored over 1,100 factors from 1975-1978. He was subsequently inducted into the Cal Athletics Corridor of Fame and was drafted into the NBA, though he by no means performed an everyday season sport.

Gene Ransom was a basketball star on the College of California, Berkeley, within the Seventies and a member of the Cal Athletics Corridor of Fame. Ransom was struck and killed by gunfire whereas touring on a San Francisco Bay Space freeway.

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“We're shocked to listen to the studies that Cal Athletics Corridor of Famer Gene Ransom has been recognized as a sufferer in a lethal freeway taking pictures,” the College of California at Berkeley stated in a press release following his demise. “Our ideas are with Gene’s household and pals for this tragic loss. Gene was one of many best gamers in our males’s basketball program’s historical past, and he will probably be significantly missed.”

Ransom, born Horace Eugene Ransom on Jan. 21, 1957, previously labored with Athletes United for Peace, a basketball program that seeks to maintain children from committing crimes, and Attain Your Targets, a bunch that trains youth within the Berkeley space, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.