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But overall, he said, he trusts the “good police work” of the Fremont Police Department and the “nice judge” who presided over the six-week trial. And he said he believes Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Jerry Herman’s portrayal of what happened that day. Connecting the dots of the circumstantial case, Herman told the jury that the brazen shooting was a random act of violence exacted by a man crazed on drugs who had scoured the Web 10 days before the murder for weapons and ways to kill. Gun residue was discovered on Urango’s hands and clothing, and he matched general witness descriptions. A videotape inside a convenience store contradicted his alibi that he gave police — that he had been buying cigarettes at the time of the shooting. In an odd sort of way, the randomness of the killing seemed to calm the nerves of many in Fremont’s Afghan community, who had assumed the murder was a hate crime. Alia Ansari covered her head, as Muslim women are commanded to do out of modesty, with a loose-fitting chador, or scarf. But there hasn’t been any evidence to show Urango acted out of hatred toward Muslims.
