SAN LEANDRO — As a teen, Stockton resident Jordan Whatley got his mother’s name tattooed on his hand.

In 2022, Alameda County prosecutors used the sweet gesture to charge Whatley with murdering a San Leandro bud tender during a wild and chaotic shootout between a group of at least five masked burglars and two private cops. Evidence against some of the five suspects was scant, but police matched the hand tattoo of a gunman that read “Tyietha” to Whatley. In the end he was sentenced to 15 years in state prison last April, court records show.

Five suspects were originally charged in the Sept. 11, 2022 shootout, which claimed the life of Victor Domingo and left a security guard and a suspected burglar suffering gunshot wounds. Aside from Whatley, who pleaded no contest to manslaughter, 23-

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