A man was fatally shot near Top Dog hot dog dining establishment in Berkeley last night. According to the Oakland Tribune, "[t]he name of the man in his late 20s was not immediately available from police, who said he is not a UC Berkeley student." (Well, thank God. Because that would have been upsetting.) It seems that the victim and the shooter were having a heated debated just before the murder. Then after getting......

Parolee Troyshawn Robinson, 20, was arrested for committing a sexual assault "on an El Cerrito pathway underneath the BART tracks," according to the Gate. Robinson allegedly walked up to a male and female passing passing by around 8:15 p.m., robbed the two of them, and used a knife to hold the "man at bay" while he attacked the woman. As her tried to flee on foot, he was quickly arrested a few feet away.......

FRIDAY, AT&T PARK: Anthony Giraudo, 19, was killed after a Giants game just outside AT&T Park. He died after receiving one punch in the head and then hitting, falling over, and hitting his head on the ground. Taylor Buckley, 18, of San Carlos was initially arrested for aggravated assault on Giraudo. He posted bail, but soon after Giraudo died, he was later re-arrested on suspicion of murder. Via.SUNDAY, OAKLAND: During a party, some cad......

Oh my God, we might all blow to bits. Well, some of you in the Mission might, that is. According to Curbed:...

Wow. Mayor Gavin Newsom is offering a whopping $250,000 bounty for the head of the person(s) who shot and killed Terrell Rogers in January. If you recall, Rogers, a father and anti-violence activist, was murdered just across the street from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, during his daughter's basketball game. Now, Newsom wants an answer. And the get that answer he's offering up an unusually large reward. Nice. And strange. Why? Because just last year......

While doing a story on ">smash-and-grab robberies in the Western Addition, NBC 11 reporter Cheryl Hurd herself became a victim of a smash-and-grab theft. (Cue Morissette.) While waiting in her NBC 11 van, with a laptop on her lap, three dicks opened the door to the van and snatched the computer right off of Hurd's lap. Mean! We like us some Cheryl Hurd!...

Hey, did you know that most gunfire in SF (and everywhere else, we assume) goes unreported? It does. At least according to the Examiner, it doesn't. They report that ShotSpotter--that magic recording device that can pinpoint the locations of discharged gunfire in San Francisco's most at-risk neighborhoods--hears gunfire that city residents should be reporting. Via. Two men were shot and killed in SF on Saturday night. First, just outside the Japan center in Japantown......

Oakland, Thursday: A 94-year-old man--94!--was taken into custody after he shot and killed his landlord during a standoff. Frank Spillman, according to the Gate, was facing eviction and, well, simply didn't want to vacate. It seems the tenant "opened fire several times at his landlord, Kulbushan Gupta, 64," at around 7:30 p.m. last night. Gupta later died at a nearby hospital. Yikes. Police then used a Taser gun to subdue the old man. He......

Taking a cue from the East Bay's recent restaurant robberies, an armed gunman entered Valencia Street Italian eatery Beretta (formerly Last Supper Club/Radio Free Valencia) on Tuesday morning and robbed the joint. The restaurant was filled a with 10 patrons at the time....

San Ramon saw its first murder of the year after 42-year old Kashmir Billon, a mortgage lender who ran Billon Enterprises, was found dead this week. His bullet-riddled body was discovered next to hist burning BMW this past Sunday. According to reports, Billon's business partner Reginald J. Robinson, 41, of El Sobrante was arrested today in connection with his death. Investigators have yet to determine the motivation for the murder on Robinson's end. Also,......

Oakland, Monday: Two shootings that happened within minutes of one another--with one proving fatal--are being investigated by the fuzz. Last night at around 6 p.m., "a young man was shot and injured at the corner of Whitney and 59th Streets in a drive-by attack," according to the Chron. A "lime-green tuck" carrying the suspected shooter(s) then fled the scene. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital. His condition is "unknown." Then about 10......

Guilty of first-degree murder. Ta-da....

The Mission District's shooting fad sees no signs of slowing down. ...

Software engineer Kip Macy, 33, and real estate agent Nicole Macy, 32, were arrested the other day for "waging a war of terror"on their tenants occupying their six-unit, three-story SOMA house. It seems that the Macys bought the place a few years back and have since been trying to have the old tenants evicted. ...

The body of a man was found early this morning in Hunters Point. He was stabbed to death. According to the Gate, the unidentified man was in his 40s and found at Thomas Avenue and Griffith Street. This brings SF's murder victim toll to 34 so far this year. No arrests have been made. Update: The victim has been identified as 46-year-old Kenneth L. Arthur Jr.......

Paul Dhaliwal--Christmastime tiger attack victim, and currently in the process of trying to sue the city of San Francisco over said attack--might be looking at some time in the clink. After Dhaliwal went on a shoplifting spree last month, which included the brazen act of stuffing of two Wii controllers down his pants, San Leandro cops are recommend seven felony charges be handed down to him. According to the San Leandro police spokesman Lt.......

An unidentified man killed himself this morning after running his car into parked cars at 80 mph at Yolo and the Alameda. Just before the fatal wreck, it seems, he was sitting in his car in North Berkeley and in the process of taking his own life, via a tube coming out of the car's exhaust pipe. A homeless man noticed what was going on, removed the tube. The homeless gent then flagged down......

So far eight businesses in the East Bay have been held up by robbers in the past couple of weeks. Last night at around 9 p.m., two suspects hit Restaurant Furenzu on Adeline Street in Emeryville, according to CBS 5 (via Bay City News). While police can't be sure that last night's heist is related to the other ones that have been hitting East Bay restaurants, it does follow the same pattern: "[o]ne of......

12-year-old SF resident Billie McGee never showed up for class on Monday, reports the San Jose Mercury News (via Bay City News), and has been missing ever since. McGee is described as "a 5-foot-5-inch black girl with black hair and brown eyes who weighs 140 pounds" and was wearing "a black and white jacket with a white, collared shirt and black jeans" on Monday. Have you seen her? If so, please call the San......

SF Crime reports (via CBS 5) that a 39 year-old man was shot and killed on Friday night in Hunters Point at Hudson Avenue and Cashmere Street. So far: no suspects, no arrests. As we already mentioned, girls had gone wild during a San Jose Jack In the Box robbery.Early Thursday morning, a man walking on Battery Street in the Financial District was stabbed in his left arm. The victim, who suffered non-life threatening......

Last night a 27-year-old man was shot and killed while driving on the 280. This is the second freeway killing in less than a week. 37-year-old Luis Solari of Richmond was driving his Honda car at around 6 p.m. going southbound between the Alemany and Monterey boulevards exits when the shooting occurred. So far no arrests have been made, but according to the Gate: San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens said the suspect vehicle......

A female motorist was shot several times and killed late last night on I-80. According to the Gate: Richmond police and CHP officers said a female was shot multiple times and killed and a male was shot and critically injured in the attack, which began around 9:15 p.m. on I-80 in Pinole. The ages of the victims were unknown. Police are investigating whether the victim knew the shooters or if this was a case......

Take, for example, Sonoma County, which played host to one of the "biggest meth busts in the Bay Area" on Tuesday night. Three people were arrested after a trucking company in Cotati was raided by the DEA....

San Francisco police arrested Matthew Owyang, 19, of Daly City in connection with the shooting deaths of Jason De La Cruz, 31, and Derek Butch, 23, which happened this past weekend. If you recall, De la Cruz and Butch were murdered in the Sunset last Saturday after De la Cruz took out his Verizon Wireless sales team to celebrate a successful sales month....

Over in Potrero Hill, a 40-year-old man was shot to death while while driving a van, according to San Francisco police Sgt. Neville Gittens. The crime happened around Turner Terrace. CBS 5 (via Bay City News) goes on to say that SFPD officers "found a lone occupant suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds...[he] had crashed into the dead end of the street." The medical examiner's office ID'd the male victim as Kelly McGee of Fairfield.......

Over at the Papyon Terrace condominium complex in south Fremont, James Henderson--a 39-year-old man--raped, pistol whipped, and beat a woman early this morning, prompting a standoff with the police. (He lives in the garage of his family's condo, it seems. Charming.) Police still have him barricaded within Papyon Terrace's walls, according to the Oakland Tribune, and SWAT teams have surrounded the complex. Unfortunately, Herderson has yet to be apprehended or fatally shot. The Tribune goes......

The shooting that claimed the lives of two men on Saturday--Daly City resident Jason de la Cruz, 31, and San Francisco resident Derek Butch, 23--was all due to a squabble over free food at Irving Pizza, it seems. Del la Cruz, at right, father of three and a successful Verizon Wireless store manger, was taking his employees out to show "his appreciation for a successful sales month." Jason offered up free pizza to his sales......

Before we dig into Bay Area mischief, here are your ladies of-a-certain-age who have been arrested for having sex with their underage male students. All three teachers were arrested in over the last two weeks in Tampa, Florida. Ta-da. Cheers, ladies! ...

In some four-day old news that managed to limbo under our radar, two cabbies (allegedly) racing with one another down Fulton Street on Monday night crashed into parked cars at around 11 p.m. Lovely. According to KTVU:...

Thieves calling themselves "the Rippers" are snatching purses from women in San Jose parking lots. The men, it seems, are targeting are Asian, reports CBS 5. The San Jose Police suspects a ring--usually involving two to three men who pounce on a women while she is walking through a well-lit parking lot--have committed over 21 acts of violence since November. ...