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A bill before Gov. Newsom would force prosecutors to seek a judge’s approval to introduce rap lyrics to a jury. Gary Bryant Jr. exchanged gunfire with a man in an Antioch apartment parking lot on a ...

Gary Bryant Jr. exchanged gunfire with a man in an Antioch apartment parking lot on a July afternoon in 2014. Both were struck by bullets. Bryant survived and the other man died. Police said it was ...