The State - News from Nov. 20, 1986
A prison gang member slain in a barrage of gunfire at an East Oakland apartment may have been plotting to kill a deputy district attorney prosecuting a case against two other gang members, authorities reported. Alameda County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ronald Kolodzieczak said Billy Ray Barber, 31, a reputed member of the Black Guerrilla Family, was believed to have been one of five men who accepted a $100,000 death “contract” on prosecutor Russ Giuntini and a witness expected to testify at the trial. Police said they could offer no motive for the killing of Barber, however.
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