Dave Stockwell, forensic supervisor for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office is the latest witness to testify in the ongoing preliminary hearings for the seven teen boys and men charged with the October 2009 gang rape at a Richmond High Homecoming dance. Stockwell's testimony included the results of his department's DNA testing which produced positive matches for four out of the seven defendants. more ›

As we reported last week attorneys for the seven defendants accused of gang-raping a 16 year-old female student were still claiming sex with the victim was consensual and her severe wounds were self-inflicted. Now, with yesterday's testimony from retired Richmond Police Detective Ken Greco, that defense looks to be falling apart. more ›

More details emerge each day as the men accused of gang-raping Jane Doe at that Richmond homecoming dance last year stand trial in a preliminary hearing in Contra Costa County. According to the testimony of one of two nurses who first examined the victim that night in October, 2009, the young woman blacked out after drinking brandy with a classmate and four men outside the dance, got dizzy, and fell down. She didn't come to until she was in the hospital with a tube down her throat. She was complaining of hurting all over, and according to Anamaree Rea, nurse and sexual assault response team member at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, the victim was begging not to go back to "that school" -- possibly because she was still drunk and remembering being bored at the dance. more ›

A seventh man turned himself in to Richmond police this week in the Richmond High School gang rape. During the October incident, if you recall, a 16-year-old girl was beaten and raped during a homecoming dance by 10 people over a two-and-a-half hour period while others looked on. more ›

The brave kid who talked to news reporters and described to authorities the graphic scene of the homecoming dance gang rape in Richmond last month, has now gone missing. KCBS reports that Salvador Rodriguez Jr. has been missing since December 6th, and relatives reported that he'd been receiving threats on his life. more ›

The men accused of beating and raping a Richmond High School student on school grounds during a homecoming dance have pleaded not guilty. The suspects -- Cody Smith, 15, and Ari Morales, 16; Marcelles Peter, 17; Manuel Ortega, 19, Jose Montano, 18, and Elvis Torrentes, 21 - have been charged with "a variety of crimes including an acting in concert charge that opens the door for a life sentence." In a case that's received national attention, anything less than life sentences for all of the suspects (if proven guilty) will be unacceptable. more ›

Speaking of not snitching, check out this mural at 20th and Florida. more ›

We brought this up briefly yesterday, but we thought it best to touch on it again. Salvador Rodriguez, 21, who was initially charged with the brutal rape and beating of the Richmond High School student wants to clear his name. He's come out to the media to talk about what he saw happen that night. And the details are pretty graphic. more ›

Yesterday, Richmond police released a recording of the 911 call made on October 24 by 16-year-old Margarita Vargas, who reported the now infamous Richmond High School gang rape. more ›

Yesterday, somewhere around 500 students, faculty, and community members showed up at a vigil at Richmond High School, where a 15-year-old girl was beaten and gang raped over over a grueling two-and-a-half-hour ordeal on October 24 during a homecoming dance. more ›

A seventh arrest was made in the gang rape of a Richmond High School girl. A total of 10 men, police allege, beat and raped the girl outside her homecoming dance. Held on a $1.2 million arrest warrant, the unidentified 21-year-old allegedly played a significant role in the brutal attack. more ›

Three teenagers allegedly involved in the Richmond High School homecoming dance gang rape -- where a 15-year-old girl was beaten and raped on school grounds for at least two and a half hours, due in part to the school's lack of security -- could, hopefully, spend the rest of their lives in prison. According to KTVU, they will be "charged as adults with an enhanced rape count." more ›

Three more men were arrested in connection with the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl outside a Richmond High School homecoming dance. The latest arrests, according to CBS 5, include a 21-year-old man and two teens, 16 and 17. Their names have yet to be released. more ›

After a 15-year-old girl was gang raped for an estimated two hours by at least 10 men, with an estimated two dozen people egging it on, on the school grounds at Richmond High, West Contra Costa Unified School District spokesman Marin Trujillo had this to say: more ›

During Friday's Richmond High School gang rape that now, according to new reports, lasted somewhere around two hours, only two suspects have been arrested so far. Manuel Ortega, 19, was arrested at the scene. He is being held on $800,000 bail at a Contra Costa County jail. more ›

Humberto Salvador, 31, Josue Gonzalez, 21 (at right), Darrell Hodges, 16, and an unidentified 15-year-old piece of prison meat all pleaded 'not guilty' in the vicious gang rape of a Richmond lesbian. The four are accused of kidnapping to commit a sex crime and a series of forcible rape, forcible sodomy and forcible oral copulation charges while acting in concert, according to reports. The 45-minute assault started when the victim got out of her car, which was adorned with a rainbow flag sticker. She was beaten, raped, taken to a second location, and left naked by the train tracks. Three of the suspects are scheduled to go back to court on March 5. more ›

Four arrests were made this week after the brutal gang rape of a 28-year-old Richmond lesbian. Josue Gonzalez, 21, the pig at right, was arrested yesterday on a warrant for gang rape, kidnapping for a sex crime, and carjacking. Humberto Hernandez Salvador, 31, and two other teens (the 15- and 16-year-old creeps who went by "Paco" and "Blue) were arrested on Wednesday night for their involvement in last week's vicious hate crime. more ›