OAKLAND — The August killing of a beloved Chinatown dentist became even more shocking Friday: Hours after authorities announced the arrest of the woman’s 73-year-old companion for hiring her killer, the man died by suicide while in law enforcement custody. Nelson Chia, 73, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of organizing […]
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Mourners remembered a slain Chinatown dentist as a dedicated practitioner and budding ballerina – one whose life came to a “senseless” end in a brazen, botched robbery while she visited Oakland’s Eastlake district. Their heads bowed around a shrine of flowers and slow-burning incense, dozens of friends, city leaders and […]