The fatal shooting happened Nov. 28 at a Chevron in Antioch.
MARTINEZ — Established California state law tied the hands of Contra Costa County prosecutors and forced them to decline a murder charge against a 19-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting a gas station store clerk in Antioch last month, prosecutors said Friday.
The distance and passage of time since the robbery ended “the imminent threat,” essentially taking away the ability to successfully prosecute Jackson on a charge of murder. Williams shot nine times, according to Butts, with one of them hitting Jackson in the leg and leaving him with a “very devastating” injury, Butts said.
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