SFist: Witness Protection Program Escapee Killed in the Mission

friscostreets

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:13:46 -0800

what is the world coming too? too many people are scared to do the right thing because as you see that don't want to end up like Lee or Rollins. i just want to send my love to Justins family. In 2005 just before justin got shoot on Vermont street Justin's brother John was murdered in the Army Street Projects. This is really sad. I'm just wondering what the police are doing about this???? another unsovled murder. Rip to all that was trying to Do The Right Thang.

rroseselavy

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:50:43 -0800

Was "Arkelius" Collins named for "R. Kelly"?

pantsgolem

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:06:10 -0800

And of course, when I turned on the tv this evening, channel 2 news was on, and their stupid teaser said something to the effect of "another person in SF's witness protection program killed" -- deliberately leaving out the part where they were killed after leaving the program. Yeah, they mentioned it in the actual story, but that doesn't excuse them for giving blatantly misleading information for the sake of hooking viewers in. This is nothing new of course, as tv news has been getting worse and worse, but it still pisses me off.

GefilteFish

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:29:56 -0800

Arkeylius Collins was killed in 2005, standing right next to Terrell Rollins, who subsequently agreed to testify against Arkeylius' alleged murderers, joined witness protection, and was killed in May 2006 when he decided to return to some auto body shop in SF. Before Justin Lee, he was the last person in witness protection to be murdered, and like Justin Lee, probably sealed his fate when he came back to precisely the same hood he should've avoided.

sabrinasmom

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:35:58 -0800

bluecanary - I concur - this can be applied to the Dhaliwal brothers, et al. as well.

manys

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:13:47 -0800

I smell a new tourism advertising slogan, "People are dying to come back to San Francisco." Ba dum bum

RinconHillSF

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:01:10 -0800

Yep - couldn't have said it better myself, blucanary.

bluecanary

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:45:39 -0800

The running theme appears to be "morons who intentionally put themselves in situations where it's pretty much a guarantee they'll be murdered." No witness protection program protects against blatant stupidity, I guess.

Greg

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:44:13 -0800

wow this is just like "The Wire"....

BeejW

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:31:32 -0800

Wasn't there another case in the past few years of a protected witness getting greased when they returned to the city? Arkeylius Collins. A little over 2 years ago. They give some details about that case in the article.

manys

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:17:01 -0800

Wasn't there another case in the past few years of a protected witness getting greased when they returned to the city? Seems to be a running theme.