"Claudel Moore, 66, was sentenced to eight years Monday, with credit for about half that for the nearly four years he has already spent at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. He's been there ever since his arrest in 2022 after fatally shooting 47-year-old Anthony Joshua Josh Fisher III in the middle of Seventh Street outside Fisher's apartment building near Allston Way."
"Fisher spent the evening of March 4, 2022, trying to scrounge up the cash that court records would later show he owed to Moore. Moore felled him with a single shot to the head which Fisher's mother and younger brother could hear from inside their apartment leaving Fisher lying in the middle of the street, to die four days later at a local hospital."
"The Alameda County District Attorney's Office initially charged Moore with murder and gun crimes, allegations he denied. Judge Scott Patton ordered Moore held to answer last March. But in January, prosecutors and Moore's public defender instead hammered out an agreement under which Moore pleaded no-contest to voluntary manslaughter with an enhancement related to his previous felony convictions. At Moore's sentencing hearing Monday, Fisher's relatives and friends filled several rows of Superior Court Judge Rozlynn Silvaggio's courtroom."
Claudel Moore, 66, pleaded no-contest to voluntary manslaughter with a prior-felony enhancement for the fatal shooting of 47-year-old Anthony Joshua "Josh" Fisher III. Fisher was shot in the head on Seventh Street near Allston Way on March 4, 2022, after attempting to gather $600 he reportedly owed Moore. Fisher lay in the street and died four days later at a hospital. Berkeley detectives arrested Moore at a Pinole Motel 6 the day Fisher died. Prosecutors initially charged Moore with murder and gun crimes; he denied those allegations. Moore received an eight-year sentence with credit for nearly four years already served. Family members attended the sentencing and expressed deep grief.
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