{"id":466549,"date":"2026-09-17T08:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T08:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466549\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T08:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T08:08:51","slug":"oakland-man-charged-with-murder-after-coworker-fight-over-washing-machine-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466549\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland man charged with murder after coworker fight over washing machine repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anthony Moses, 47, was charged with murder after a verbal dispute with coworker Javier Martinez Ramos outside Thousand Oaks Laundromat turned fatal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The argument began over who should repair a washing machine, after Moses claimed Ramos&#8217;s help was no longer needed for the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Moses allegedly punched Ramos, causing him to fall, lose consciousness, and sustain a fatal head injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; An argument with a coworker over washing machine repairs in <a data-ylk=\"slk:Oakland;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland <\/a>ended when the man allegedly punched his coworker, who later died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Alameda County District Attorney&#8217;s Office filed murder charges Wednesday against 47-year-old Anthony Moses in connection with the Dec. 16 incident.<\/p>\n<p>Dispute over repairs<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Moses and the victim, Javier Martinez Ramos, were both employed at Thousand Oaks Laundromat on MacArthur Boulevard when a verbal argument broke out between them, according to a probable cause arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators said Ramos was repairing a washing machine, a task Moses had recently learned how to perform. Moses allegedly told Ramos he was no longer needed for the job because Moses could handle it himself.<\/p>\n<p>Fatal confrontation<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dig deeper<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The argument escalated into a physical fight outside the laundro, where Moses allegedly punched Ramos repeatedly, according to police. Ramos fell to the ground and lost consciousness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A witness told investigators they heard Moses standing over Ramos saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to kill you,&#8221; several times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ramos suffered a severe head injury and later died from his injuries, leading prosecutors to file the murder charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information for this report was gathered from an Alameda County probable cause arrest document and the official murder complaint from the district attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Anthony Moses, 47, was charged with murder after a verbal dispute with coworker Javier Martinez Ramos&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[183742,183741,143,145,144,59641,183743],"class_list":["post-466549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-anthony-moses","tag-javier-martinez-ramos","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-washing-machine","tag-washing-machine-repairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}