HAYWARD — A person suspected of plotting to have a witness in his homicide go “bye-bye” has now caught a brand new cost associated to a 2022 baseball bat assault that authorities have recognized about for years, court docket information present.
Anthony Bergstrom, 56, already confronted fees of murdering his buddy, 53-year-old Jesse Nieto, allegedly based mostly on Bergstrom’s perception that his girlfriend was having intercourse with Nieto and sending him nude photos. Prosecutors stated on the outset of the case that on Jan. 4, 2023, Bergstrom had bashed Nieto’s head in throughout a disagreement on Park Road in Hayward, then adopted him, engaged in a second bodily wrestle and shot him within the head.
The recent case focuses on Bergstrom’s alleged propensity to swing blunt objects at folks’s heads. He’s accused of fracturing a person’s cranium with a baseball bat on the Hayward Plunge on Mission Boulevard about six weeks earlier than he allegedly killed Nieto. The court docket affidavit used to cost Bergstrom is dated Nov. 17, 2022, and says the sufferer recognized Bergstrom instantly when police responded to the incident, and wished for prosecution.
It’s unclear why prosecutors waited practically three years — after Bergstrom had already allegedly killed a person, was charged with homicide and spent roughly two years in jail — earlier than submitting the second case. The felony grievance fees Bergstrom with a single rely of assault and says he has eight prior convictions.
Six days after he was charged with assault, Bergstrom waived his proper to a preliminary listening to within the homicide case. In that investigation, police have been advised by a witness that Bergstrom had claimed that Nieto pulled a gun on him first, and that he wrestled the gun away and shot Bergstrom. Nonetheless, Bergstrom was charged with homicide in April 2023, court docket information present.
Whereas in custody, Bergstrom allegedly known as his girlfriend from jail and “deliberate to homicide a witness” who was close by when Bergstrom allegedly killed Nieto, police stated in court docket filings. They allegedly mentioned telling a “former documented felony road gang member” who was associates with Bergstrom that the witness “must go bye-bye.”
“Do you perceive what I’m telling you proper now?” Bergstrom allegedly requested the girl, report present.
She replied, “Yeah, I get what you’re saying,” in keeping with police.
“I’m telling you that (the witness) must disappear for good like a nasty love story, like a nasty story will we perceive that love,” police stated in court docket filings, with the witness’ title redacted.
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