"But now prosecutors in Alameda County have charged Wheeler with murdering 34-year-old Dexter Appleby in May 2023, authorities announced Tuesday. Appleby was shot and killed about 20 minutes before midnight on May 26, 2023, on 41st Street and San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville. The case went unsolved for two years, then police released surveillance video of a suspect, prompting a person who knows Wheeler to come forward implicating him, authorities said."
"After he was arrested on suspicion of murder, Wheeler allegedly called a woman from jail and gave his side of the confrontation, saying that Johnson tried to vehicular manslaughter me or whatever. His lawyer argued at trial that Wheeler had defended himself during the incident. The defense also pointed to posts on Johnson's Instagram he had the habit of posting the same picture with different captions each time that alluded to him challenging people to violent confrontations."
James Wheeler, 44, was acquitted of murder but convicted of voluntary manslaughter last July in the November 21, 2023, shooting death of Johnny James Johnson Jr. Prosecutors have charged Wheeler with murdering 34-year-old Dexter Appleby on May 26, 2023, after Appleby was shot about 20 minutes before midnight on 41st Street and San Pablo Avenue in Emeryville. The Appleby case remained unsolved for two years until police released surveillance video and a tipster who knew Wheeler came forward. Authorities are exploring a theory that Wheeler shot Appleby during an argument. Wheeler was a UPS driver at the time of his arrest and is scheduled for sentencing in the Johnson case on Oct. 17. He has not yet been arraigned on the new charge.
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