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$10K Reward Offered In 2013 Berkeley Hills Murder

KCBS_740 BERKELEY (KCBS) -- UC Berkeley police are offering a $10,000 reward for information in the 2013 murder of an aspiring paramedic at a lookout on Grizzly Peak, the victim's family said Wednesday.

Alberto Santana-Silva was shot and killed on Mother's Day in 2013 when he tried to break up a fight between two groups of strangers.  Shortly after the fight broke up, a suspect returned with a gun, fatally shooting Santana-Silver.

"My brother loved life. He was always happy. He had a really good heart," Santana-Silver's sister Maribel told KCBS.

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21-year-old Alberto Santana of Fremont was fatally shot at an overlook off Grizzly Peak Blvd. in the Berkeley Hills on May 12, 2013. (CBS)

"The hard part is getting an eye witness that can identify who the shooter was, and that's why we're here today, three years later, because I know through my investigation that somebody other than the shooter knows who did this," UC Berkeley Police Detective Jonathan Caires told KCBS.

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