For many years, Robert Hudson and more than a dozen men gathered early each morning at the corner of 65th Avenue and International Boulevard in East Oakland to sell drugs.

Mr. Hudson’s lengthy career as a neighborhood crack dealer is detailed in hundreds of pages of court records. He was an obscure cog in Oakland’s violent narcotics trade until the afternoon of Aug. 8, when two men spotted him near his usual corner and opened fire, wounding him and a friend.

The shooting might have been dismissed as another episode of drug-related violence, except that one bullet also struck 3-year-old Carlos Nava in the neck. He bled to death on the sidewalk.

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