SFist Blotter

Well, that was a grim Daily Californian homepage yesterday. The top six stories: pedestrian hit by car on Telegraph; Berkeley summer camp evacuated due to Tahoe fire, body found near the Berkeley Marina, beloved local activist hit by train, Cal student to be tried for killing David Halberstam, and memorials for the local murder-suicide family. On the bright side, the other article on the home page is that Cal basketball star DeVon Hardin has decided not to enter the NBA draft.

Hey, remember the kid killed for saving a parking space in the Richmond on Geary Street last year? The SFPD arrested two more people in that killing, and now say they've got all four of the suspects in custody now.

And this is nice (if sad) -- The Red Onion restaurant in El Cerrito is offering free meals today if you donate at least $25 to a reward fund to help find the people who killed the owner, Alfredo Figueroa, two months ago. Figueroa's day job employer, a sheet metal company, will match whatever's raised, and if they never pay out the reward, the money will go to the family. Figueroa used to start work at the sheet metal place at 6 a.m., take his kids to school at 8, and then go back to the sheet metal place until 3, at which point he'd go work in the restaurant. The fund as of now is at $25K -- the sheet metal company has already kicked in $10,000 and insurance companies have kicked in another $10,000.