OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A key witness scheduled to testify this week in the involuntary manslaughter trial involving a Northern California warehouse fire that killed 36 people has died in a car crash, prosecutors told a judge Monday. Prosecutors say they turned the warehouse into an unsafe entertainment venue and residence. Prosecutors say Harris, 29, helped Almena convert the warehouse, collect rent and schedule concerts. Prosecutors have also said Jacobitz performed electrical work at the warehouse. Testimony in the involuntary manslaughter trial of Derick Almena and Max Harris started Monday in Oakland with a tearful mother of one of the victim’s telling the jury about her daughter’s last moments.

Source: Huffington Post May 07, 2019 07:30 UTC