Second Victim in Oakland Elderly Beatings Dies
ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 14, 2008
BERKELEY – A second alleged victim of an Oakland man accused of robbing and beating elderly people in Berkeley has died.
Police say 93-year-old Tchang Hoang died July 28 in China, where his relatives had sent him after the January attack. He had been in a coma for several months.
Jahton Green will stand trial beginning Monday on robbery and elder abuse charges.
Police say Green waited outside grocery stores and senior centers to rob elderly people, and he beat three of them between November and January.
Despite the death of Hoang and another man, authorities say Green may not face any murder charges. That's because Hoang's family declined to have an autopsy, and prosecutors didn't have enough evidence to show that 78-year-old Robert Whitman died as a result of the attack.
Whitman died of a stroke after testifying at Green's preliminary hearing.
SOURCE: San Diego Union Tribune
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