Updated on August 3, 2021 at 6:39 pm
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A man has been charged for the burning death of another man in East Oakland in March, police said Tuesday.
Andre Weston, 58, has been charged by Alameda County prosecutors for the death of 58-year-old William Vann, who died of severe burns on March 8, according to police.
Officers responded at 8:07 p.m. on March 3 to the 500 block of Douglas Avenue after someone reported that a man was on fire.
Officers arrived to find Vann on fire after Weston allegedly severely burned, beat, and stabbed him, according to police.
Vann was taken to the burn unit at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital s in San Francisco, but he died.
Alameda D.A. s office charges man with murder for beating stabbing, setting homeless man on fire
By KTVU staff
Booking photo of Andre Weston provided by Oakland Police Department.
OAKLAND, Calif. - A man has been charged with murder by Alameda County district attorney s office for beating, stabbing and setting a homeless man on fire back in March in Oakland.
Police said Andre Weston, 58, used an accelerant to intentionally douse William Vann, a 58-year-old man who was experiencing homelessness on the night of March 3, in the Brookfield Village area. The investigation revealed that there was an altercation between the victim, Vann, and the suspect, Weston, at which time Weston doused Vann with an accelerant, and then lit him on fire, ultimately causing his death. Oakland police investigator Robert Hardy said. This horrific death was senseless and the person responsible is being held accountable.
Man charged with murder in horrific burning of victim in East Oakland
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This file photograph shows the exterior of the Oakland Police Department, located at 455 7th St., in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, November 13, 2019.Yalonda M. James/The Chronicle
Alameda County prosecutors have charged a man with murder in an attack on another man who police say was doused with flammable liquid and set on fire during an altercation in East Oakland.
Andre Weston, 58, is facing the murder charge roughly five months after the attack on the victim, William Vann, 58, on the night of March 3, Oakland police Homicide Investigator Robert Hardy said Tuesday.
Oakland Man Arrested for Fatally Setting Homeless Man on Fire
A 58-year-old Oakland man is in custody on suspicion of killing another man by fire back in March.
SFist reported on the March 3 incident in which a homeless man was allegedly set ablaze by another man in Oakland s Brookfield Village neighborhood, on the 500 block of Douglas Avenue. The victim was left in critical condition, and later died from the third-degree burns that he endured that night.
He has since been identified as 58-year-old William Vann.
Police believed that Vann, who had been living in his car in the area, was doused in an accelerant before being set on fire.