‘They were both…trying to get control of the firearm’: Oakland man gets 6 years in 2022 homicide

OAKLAND — The suspect in a 2022 Oakland killing has accepted a plea deal and been sentenced to six years behind bars, court records show.

Donald Marler, 31, was transferred to North Kern State Prison on Jan. 7, two months after pleading no contest to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of 38-year-old Nicholas Lord. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors threw out a murder charge, court records show.

At Marler’s preliminary hearing last April, a woman who was one of Lord’s...