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Man dies in East Oakland home after assault

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A man died at his East Oakland home a day after being attacked nearby, police said Friday.

Ronald Coelho Jr., 50, was found dead in his home on the 1500 block of 79th Avenue on Sunday morning.

Coelho had been attacked on Saturday near 79th Avenue and Alder Street and managed to return home, police said.

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No arrest has been made.

Henry K. Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: hlee@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @henryklee

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Henry K. Lee has been a reporter for KTVU-TV since 2015. Prior to that he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade. He covers breaking news, crime, courts and aviation. He has appeared on television and radio programs to discuss high-profile cases and is the author of "Presumed Dead — A True-Life Murder Mystery," about the Hans Reiser murder case in Oakland.

He studied premed at UC Berkeley before graduating with a psychology major and was a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian student newspaper on campus.