• GANG-RELATED MURDER IN STOCKTON: STOCKTON — Stockton Police are investigating what appears to be a gang-related murder that occurred Saturday night.Officers responded to a report of a shooting on the 4300 block of Manchester Avenue at 8:34 p.m. Saturday.Officers located a 25-year-old male victim that had been shot multiple times in a parking lot of an apartment complex, said Stockton Police Officer Joe Silva. The victim was transported to an area hospital where he died.• SHOOTING SUSPECT FREE AFTER KILLING NEIGHBOR: STOCKTON — A 53-year-old Stockton man is free after shooting and killing a neighbor.Although they had only been there about a week, the residents of the home at 440 Flora Street in Stockton, and the man who was shot and killed in specific, were well known to the people in that neighborhood.It started with a man standing out in front of a house throwing his hands up into the air screaming vulgarities.Police say a 53-year-old man shot him in the stomach just before 11 a.m. Saturday, telling officer he’d done it because he feared for his life.Neighbors say that the home where the deceased man lived was well known to be a type of halfway house for recovering addicts and the mentally ill. Homes that cater to such people are cropping up in numerous of neighborhoods.
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