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Family of Oakland homicide victim, 19, raising money to send his body home to Guatemala
The family of a 19-year-old Oakland man who was stabbed to death last weekend is trying to raise money to bring his body back to Guatemala. Aldon Rochel Mata Cardona was stabbed May 23 at about 6:45 p.m. in the 1700 block of East 19th Street, according to the Oakland Police Department. Cardona was taken […] The post Family of Oakland homicide victim, 19, raising money to send his body home to Guatemala appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Family of Oakland homicide victim, 19, raising money to send his body home to Guatemala, The family of a 19-year-old Oakland man who was stabbed to death last weekend is trying to raise money to bring his body back to Guatemala. Aldon Rochel Mata Cardona was stabbed May 23 at about 6:45 p.m. in the 1700 block of East 19th Street, according to the Oakland Police Department. Cardona was taken […] The post Family of Oakland homicide victim, 19, raising money to send his body home to Guatemala appeared first on Local News Matters .
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