"On Aug. 23, 2024, Stoops stabbed Quevedo and Quevedo's girlfriend during a heated argument that started when the couple allegedly witnessed Stoops dragging his teenage nephew into his home for breaking curfew. As the two lay on the ground bleeding, Quevedo told his girlfriend he loved her, then died a few moments later, police said."
""Just (expletive) horrible. He was covered in blood, sitting up on that tree," Quevedo's girlfriend recalled from the witness stand. "It was like he couldn't try - he was trying, like, breathe and just blood everywhere, covered.""
""I feel that we are making this decision together despite having a potential defense of self-defense," Beles said."
Randall "Bubba" Stoops, 35, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to six years in state prison for the killing of 39-year-old Jose "Ox" Quevedo. The stabbing occurred on Aug. 23, 2024, on the 24000 block of Silva Avenue in Hayward during a heated argument that began after the couple allegedly saw Stoops drag his teenage nephew inside for breaking curfew. Quevedo's girlfriend was also stabbed and survived. At a preliminary hearing a judge upheld the murder charge in Quevedo's death while reducing an attempted murder charge in the girlfriend's case to assault. Stoops' lawyer acknowledged a potential self-defense argument but proceeded with the plea.
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