(KRON) — An Alameda County jury convicted an Oakland man of murdering Dexter Appleby in Emeryville, prosecutors announced. The jury reached its guilty verdict for first-degree murder on Tuesday following a trial.
James Wheeler, 45, shot Appleby at the intersection of 41st and San Pablo on May 26, 2023, prosecutors said. “Two eyewitnesses observed the shooting and testified that the assailant shot the victim once while he was standing and then twice more while he was on the ground,” the district attorney’s office wrote.
It took homicide detectives two years to figure out who killed 34-year-old Appleby…