For just 64. 90 a month. Call or go online today. Charges have been filed against an officer who shot and killed a man inside a san l leandro walmart. The warning you need to know about, plus the temperatures. Coming up. Abc 7 news at 11 00 starts right now. Building a better bay area for a safe and secure future. This is abc 7 news. Developing news tonight. A san leandr Police Officer has been charged with felony manslaughter in the deadly shooting of a black man inside a walmart. Friends and family of the victim say this is a first step, but as abc 7 news report j. R. Stone reports, the officers attorney is criticizing the d. A. s decision. Drop the bat. Back up. Drop the bat. This is video from back in april showi moments before officer Jason Fletcher shot and killed Stephen Taylor inside a san leandro walmart. Alameda County District attorney Nancy Omalley says officer fletchers use of force was not warranted. At time of the shooting, it was not reasonable to conclude mr. Stephen t
His client feared for his life and defended himself. The law doesnt require officers even in todays age to have their brains bashed out with a lethal instrument. Which a baseball bat is. Drop the bat, man. Reporter officers tased taylor but it didnt work. Officer fletcher then fired a shot that proved to be deadly. Omalley has charged fletcher with voluntary manslaughter. Fletcher seen here in this archive individual from 2013 had been with the department for more than 15 years. Family members say taylor may have been having a mental episode but believe he could have been talked down. Friends of the family say that while they would have liked murder charges, at least this is something. At the end of the day a lot of times we have to settle. Reporter at the time of the shooting, taylor was homeless. I did reach out to his mother and grandmother who deferred all comments to their lawyer. A lawyer who says they are encouraged by the d. A. s decision. In alameda county, j. R. Stone, abc 7
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Getting ready to give us an update in just a few minut czu burning south of San Francisco, so we are waiting on that. And while we do were going to check in with meteorologist lisa argen. Whats happening right now, lisa . Good morning, liz. Yesterday we had a nice welldefined marine layer. This morning not the case. Its pretty diffuse and looking at a layer of smoke over the bay area. Decreasing visibility at the shore. That 4 to 5 mile visibility from the smoke over from livermore to san jose where the air quality is unhealthy for sensitive groups there. Elsewhere, moderate around the bay. And looking at that to change today as that smoke layer continues to shift as we get our windsg nrom t oday. Up ingaleis 7 a hennessy f 73 degrees with very light winds. As we to vacaville temperatures in the upper 60s, winds light and down over in la honda around 70 degrees and light wind. High pressure is Building Back in and with that weve got a high fire weather watch with critical fire danger f
On here at the staging area. Quite a few deputies are here from Alameda County part of the mutual aid force that is out here for two main reasons. They are going to be going door to door as they to notify people if they need to evacuate. Also, theyre going to be here to provide security for all of those people that are evacuated so that when they do return, they will have homes that have not been broken into. In Boulder Creek tonight a few homes are destroyed. The fire moved through this evening. Cal fire has confirmed 50 structures have been lost in the sprawling complex of fires and, unfortunately, the destruction may be much worse. We believe that it will go to the triple digits. It is just too early to know what that exact number i few mi alan strong is taking a stand against the coming fire, spraying down the roof of his friends bakery all day. He knows danger is on its way. You can feel the breeze. Its coming this way from the alba ridge. When it starts doing that, you know somet