‘All I could see was a lot of blood’: San Francisco man gets 15 years for Oakland killing

OAKLAND A San Francisco resident has been sentenced to years for killing a man a week before Halloween court records show Amir Haynes pleaded no contest to manslaughter and was sentenced in late July court records show In exchange for his no contest plea prosecutors dropped a murder charge against Haynes On Aug Haynes was transferred from the jail to North Kern State Prison where he remains records show The victim -year-old Jermaine Kennedy was shot and killed around p m on Oct near th Avenue and International Boulevard in Oakland Eyewitnesses shared seeing the two men walking together and talking before the shooting Angel Duarte an onlooker who witnessed the shooting mentioned he saw a chubby man and a thin man walking together and assumed they were friends because they were walking and talking Required if they were argued he noted they were speaking a little bit rough but sometimes that s the way they talk without elaboration A scant moments later he heard shots and the thin man fell to the ground And then the thin one was crawling Duarte declared later adding All I could see was a lot of blood Eyewitnesses identified Haynes who was arrested a week after the shooting according to court records He gets credit for the time he spent at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin before his development was resolved Police never publicly revealed the suspected motive for the shooting