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Years ago, Joe Kieta was out to dinner at a nice restaurant with his wife, celebrating their second anniversary.
Kieta, then the editor of The Merced Sun-Star in Merced, California, had just published a series of articles that led to the ouster of the local district attorney. As he was eating, a friend of the district attorney showed up and asked Kieta to go outside.
The man “challenged me to a fight right in the middle of this fancy restaurant,” Kieta, now the editor of The Fresno Bee in California, said on Friday.
The fatal shooting a
Kieta, then the editor of The Merced Sun-Star in Merced, California, had just published a series of articles that led to the ouster of the local district attorney. As he was eating, a friend of the district attorney showed up and asked Kieta to go outside.
The man “challenged me to a fight right in the middle of this fancy restaurant,” Kieta, now the editor of The Fresno Bee in California, said on Friday.
The fatal shooting a
