OAKLAND — A local resident has been sentenced to seven years in state prison for killing a man in a 2023 drive-by shooting, a homicide apparently motivated by a spontaneous argument and a thrown beer can.

Jose “Peche” Estrada-Avalos, 40, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of 21-year-old Santos Pablo-Ramirez. In exchange, prosecutors dropped a murder charge against him. He was sentenced to prison earlier this month, court records show.

The prosecution’s case against Estrada-Avalos was marred by inconsistent — or at one point, admittedly dishonest — testimony from the lone eyewitness, a woman who admitted she was driving when Estrada-Avalos and a group of people, including the victim, got into a shouting match that precipitated the shooting. The woman lied o

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