HAYWARD — A man suspected of plotting to have a witness in his murder go “bye-bye” has now caught a new charge related to a 2022 baseball bat attack that authorities have known about for years, court records show.

Anthony Bergstrom, 56, already faced charges of murdering his friend , 53-year-old Jesse Nieto, allegedly based on Bergstrom’s belief that his girlfriend was having sex with Nieto and sending him nude pictures. Prosecutors said at the outset of the case that on Jan. 4, 2023, Bergstrom had bashed Nieto’s head in during a disagreement on Park Street in Hayward, then followed him, engaged in a second physical struggle and shot him in the head.

The fresh case focuses on Bergstrom’s alleged propensity to swing blunt objects at people’s heads. He is accused of fracturing a man’s sk

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