
"In 2023, McMaster was charged with attacking a roommate at a residential care home in San Lorenzo, causing a fracture to the victim's eye socket. While at the jail in May 2023, McMaster was accused of attacking his cellmate. The man told deputies that McMaster bit his right ear, punched him several times in the head, stabbed him in the neck with a pencil, and attempted to suffocate him with a plastic bag."
"Jeffrey McMaster Jr., 44, was charged with murder in the death of 49-year-old Leslie Marshall, who suffered blunt force trauma and died Monday at a residential hotel in the 2300 block of San Pablo Avenue in Oakland. Authorities say McMaster also lived at there, and that he was on probation for beating his roommate in 2023. According to Oakland police, McMaster committed the alleged murder in full view of a security camera at the hotel and walked back to his room, where he was found with blood on his hands."
"McMaster has been to prison three times, for battery involving serious injury, burglary, and finally for a 2009 conviction for assault with intent to commit a sex crime, court records show."
Jeffrey McMaster Jr., 44, was charged with murder in the death of 49-year-old Leslie Marshall, who suffered blunt force trauma and died at a residential hotel in Oakland. McMaster lived at the hotel and was on probation for beating a roommate in 2023. Police say the alleged killing was captured on a hotel security camera and that McMaster returned to his room with blood on his hands, later confessing to using his hands and feet in the beating. Marshall's body was found in the hotel's backyard. McMaster is held without bail at Santa Rita Jail. He has prior convictions including assault with intent to commit a sex crime and a 2024 no-contest plea to elder abuse.
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