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A Parent at the Kitchen Table in Orinda You are reading this at 1 a.m. because your phone rang the night of October 31, 2019, and the voice on the other end said your son was shot at a Halloween party in a house in your own neighborhood — a house you did not know was being rented out for a mansion party that was being advertised on social media. You drove to Lucille Way. You saw the yellow tape. The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputies were still there. Some of the people you grew up with were carried out on stretchers. Five young people never came home. Five more were wounded. The rest of the night, and the weeks after, are a kind of blur that has not lifted. Now, years later, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s office has declined to file criminal charges against the five men that deputies arrested. The DA’s announcement reads, in part, that the office will “need more information” in order to file charges. A sheriff’s spokesman said, “We stand by our investigation.” That left your family with a feeling that the system you trusted had moved on, and the only thing left…