March 4, 2008
Berkeley Sees Its Third Murder Of The Year
An unidentified person was shot and killed on the 1600 block of Russell in Berkeley last night, brining the city's murder tally to three. (The much larger city of San Francisco, BTW, is at 14.) The Chron goes on to report:
The slaying comes a little more than a week after Brandon Terrell Jones, 29, of Berkeley was shot and killed on the 1500 block of Harmon Street, about seven blocks away. No arrests have been made in Jones' Feb. 24 slaying.
Info about the victim's age, race, and gender or any arrests have yet to be released.
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Don't mean to be too nitpicky, but I looked up 1600 Russell St, Berkeley in Google Maps and it seems like the map you posted is 10 blocks east of where it happened.
you're right. i dropped a zero. nice eagle-eye, pancakebreakfast.
fixed.
its just frustrating that area is unsafe, given that during the daytime theres a ton of cyclists using that route to/from ashby to out near the bay. dirty east bay
Try living here in Southwest Berkeley, Lola. Residents have been petitioning the City Council for some relief for years, but the CC has more time for making pronouncements about national issues than taking care of city issues.
Berkeley has a crumbling infrastructure, slippery slope crime,truancy, a drug war on its south border, and a growing grunginess. But as long as the folks in North Berkeley and the hills are happy~*..~*lalalalalalalala~*..~*no one need ever know how undemocratically the city really runs. And no local papers cover that story. We need a serious exposé.