JUST IN: Authorities have released new details on what led up to the fatal road rage shooting that killed Bay Area sports legend Gene Ransom.
OAKLAND, Calif. -- The suspect accused of fatally shooting Bay Area sports legend Gene Ransom on I-880 in Oakland on Friday has been charged with several felonies, including murder.Son of former Cal athlete killed in I-880 shooting remembers his dad who 'showed love to everyone'
According to charging documents, 25-year-old Juan Angel Garcia of San Francisco was driving northbound on I-880 in pursuit of Ransom for an unknown reason. Documents say as the pair approached Oak St., Garcia drove his car onto the shoulder so he was parallel with Ransom's car. That's when Garcia fired a shot striking Ransom in the head, killing him.
Ransom's car then crossed several lanes of traffic, crashing into a cement wall on northbound I-880. He was pronounced dead at the scene.If you're on the ABC7 News app, The victim, Ransom, was a star basketball player in the 1970s at Berkeley High School and Cal Berkeley who got a tryout with the Warriors.," a local nonprofit working to combat violence in Berkeley, Oakland and Richmond.
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