"OAKLAND - On paper, the future looked bright for Abraham Salgado-Alfaro. In May 2020, he graduated from Rudsdale Continuation School in Oakland, then turned 18 a week later. He had a girlfriend who lived in his neighborhood, where he resided in a 682-square foot house with six other family members, according to court records. Then on June 24, 2020, Salgado-Alfaro shot and killed a man during an early morning stroll with his girlfriend, after the victim catcalled the young woman and allegedly started a fight."
"The case resolved just last month, after Salgado-Alfaro, 23, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter for killing 29-year-old Ernesto Herrera. In exchange for his plea, he was sentenced to nine months in state prison, most of which he has already served while his case was unresolved. According to witness testimony and court records, Salgado-Alfaro and his girlfriend planned to take a short walk around their neighborhood because they liked to look at goats that were cleaning dead grass out of a nearby abandoned lot."
Abraham Salgado-Alfaro graduated from Rudsdale Continuation School in May 2020 and lived with six family members in a small home. On June 24, 2020, during an early-morning walk with his girlfriend, Salgado-Alfaro encountered 29-year-old Ernesto Herrera, who allegedly catcalled the girlfriend and provoked a confrontation. The encounter escalated to shoving; Herrera reportedly taunted Salgado-Alfaro after a blow to the head, then a gunshot occurred. Salgado-Alfaro was arrested 11 months later, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter, and received a nine-month state prison sentence, much of which he had already served.
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