The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/06/murder-charge-dropped-in-case-of-richmond-realtor-who-shot-romantic-rival/Alameda County prosecutors have dropped the charges against Terryan McDowell, the Richmond-based realtor who fatally shot a romantic rival at the Oakland apartment of the woman they were both seeing. As Bay Area News Group reports, the murder case has been dismissed against 27-year-old Terryan McDowell, who was accused in the January 15 killing of 42-year-old Darnell Parker. McDowell has maintained from the start that he acted in self-defense when Parker showed up by surprise at the apartment of the woman he was dating. And the weapon he used was registered to him and he was permitted to carry it. McDowell fled the scene of the shooting but later ca

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