'Three houses away. She was almost home, but she's not coming home.' A family is mourning the loss of a postal worker stabbed to death in Oakland while walking home.
"Three houses away. She was almost home, but she's not coming home," said Miles Spruill.
Oakland police arrested Wilbert Winchester, 28, who has a prior conviction for elder abuse. Alameda County prosecutors have charged him with murder - as well as attempted murder for allegedly stabbing another woman two days before Spruill was killed. A motive for the attacks aren't known. "I wish you peace and I wish you farewell," he said. His voice quavering, he added, "You took my best friend. You took the last living birth parent that I have.
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