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Police arrested two suspects a few hours after three men were shot at Papa Potrero's Pizza at 24th Street and Potrero Ave around 4 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Two of the men died from their wounds, and the third victim is reported as not having life-threatening injuries.

John Montgomery, 37, has been identified as the 34th San Francisco homicide victim of 2009. Montgomery was stabbed at the Vincent Hotel at 459 Turk sometime around noon on Thursday. According to CBS 5/BCN, "[p]olice arrested another man in connection with the stabbing, but his name has not been released. " The Vincent Hotel, by the way, is a rather large housing unit for the city's homeless population, run by the Tenderloin Housing Clinic.

The body of an unidentified man was found inside a Castro Street apartment on Tuesday, reports the . SFPD found the week-old corpse after receiving an anonymous phone call. Creepy. Authorities are still trying to determine the cause of death and the body's ID. The BAR goes on to say, "there had been two or three people living in the residence, but [head of the homicide unit Lieutenant Mike Stasko] didn't know if the dead man was one of them. He said the residents had not been seen in 'a few days,' and no one else was in the flat." We'll update with more info as it comes to us. Update: Police have identified the body: Robert "Bobby" Christopher, 56. According to SFGate, "He was found inside what appeared to be a ransacked apartment at 98 Castro St. after someone called San Francisco police at 6:35 p.m."

The big tabloid-crime news story of the day is the connection being made between a body found last week in a McLaren Park homeless encampment (which was apparently once attached to this severed leg, and was not, as investigators first thought, that of a woman but in fact was a man's) and the murderous folks from Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland. The bakery, as you may recall, was connected to the 2007 murder of Chauncey Bailey, a journalist who had been investigating trouble at the bakery.

The family and friends of Hugues de la Plaza, the 36-year-old French San Francisco resident whose homicide two years ago was wrongly deemed a suicide by SFPD -- until the French authorities came to town and showed them what's up, are continuing their fight to get SFPD to admit they're bumbling idiots.

Lamar Franklin, 21, was charged with the shaking death of his infant son last week. According to reports, Berkeley police responded to a call around 4:40 p.m. on Friday regarding 'a choking infant" over in the in the 1300 block of Ward Street. After the 5-month-old infant was whisked away to Children's Hospital in Oakland, he later died in Tuesday. Franklin was charged with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. If convicted, this would make Berkeley's fourth homicide of the year.

The murder of Ivarene Lett, Oakland's oldest homicide victim in history, in a secure, high-rise apartment building in the Lake Merritt neighborhood earlier this week, not to mention the recent, notorious Lovelle Mixon incident, has become the last straw for many Oakland residents, especially the elderly. Mayor Dellums' proposal to cut city funding of 140 police officers to help close a $100 million budget gap isn't helping matters either. [Update] Apparently, the mainstream media has been misleading the public about the proposal. The federal government would be using stimulus money to pay for those 140 officers. Many residents will no longer consider risking a stroll around the lake after dark, and there have been recent incidents of brazen daytime robberies by gang-members and the homeless. Male black commenters on SFGate also noted increased racial tension from their suspicious white neighbors. With crime likely to increase in the impending summer months, Dellums has his work cut out for him.

Jing Hua Wu, who was recently fired from his job as a product test engineer, was arrested on Saturday for the triple murder of his former colleagues at SiPort. After losing his job last last week, Wu went back into his former place of employment late Friday afternoon, opening fire and killing company executives Sid Agrawal, Brian Pugh and Marilyn Lewis. (Valleywag, by the way, has an uncharacteristically touching post on Lewis' life.) Police officers found Wu at around 10:45 a.m. Saturday near El Camino Real and Grant Road in Mountain View. He was "arrested without incident." (KTVU)

Well, the bad news is still that we've hit a 12 year high for homicides in the City and County of San Francisco, with two weeks left to go in the year. On the statistical side, though, the SFPD year to date murder count has moved down by three victims, from 100 to 97.

-- Van Halen jumps. [SFGate]

Between the oil spill and Barry being his Bonds self, crime has been a wee bit sloooow over the past few days -- well, at least reports of foolish mischief seem sluggish. -- Santa Rosa fuzz have a suspect in the robbery/shooting death of Gurdip Singh, which took place at Bill's Market far away in the land of Santa Rosa this past Monday. Javier Pena, 37, is now in custody. Good ol' CBS 5...

More to the point, can you see these cars? Yeah, hard for us, too. (Go here to see the shocking! riveting! scandalous! footage that borders on tepid here.) But these two American-made automobiles -- an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and Chevrolet Malibu Wagon, respectively (chortle) -- are believed to be involved one of the 101 shootings that took place on September 30. If you have any info on these fine cars, you're urged to call...

Following up on yesterday's blotter, we're sorry to pass along word from today's Chronicle that one of the murder victims over the weekend, David Sterling, was killed on the way home Monday afternoon, after picking up a burrito for his girlfriend. Investigators think it was supposed to be a retaliation shooting from the guy shot in the garage by kids on bikes a day earlier, but because Sterling had no record and no known gang affiliations, the investigators think it might have been a case of mistaken identity.

...And that's not even the curviest part! A car chase that started in Marin County around 3:00 a.m. Monday morning ended abruptly when the driver, speeding at around 75 mph over the Golden Gate Bridge, overshot the turn from Doyle Drive onto Lombard Street and flipped over. A open fifth of Hennessey was found in the car, and the passengers are in SF General with non-fatal injuries.

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In response to allegations by deceased Stanford engineering grad student May Zhou's father earlier this week that his daughter's death was a homicide and not self-inflicted, the Santa Rosa police released additional information from their investigation. Namely, they said they have videotape and receipts of her buying four bottles of sleeping pills from local drugstores in two days, and they have an email she sent to her younger sister a few days before she disappeared that reads like a suicide note. Three of the bottles were found in the trunk along with her body.

Your Black Muslim Bakery update: the business is being liquidated in an involuntary bankruptcy proceeding (they have almost $1 million in debt) after a number of unnamed potential buyers dropped out, and the 19-year-old arrested for shooting journalist Chauncey Bailey now says (video clip) he was beaten and coerced into a false confession to the murder. The Oakland PD homicide officer assigned to the case says that's false and they have a taped confession where alleged shooter Devaundre Broussard calmly and openly discussing the facts of the case. Meanwhile, Rep. Barbara Lee is now saying she regrets having supported Your Black Muslim Bakery in the past.

It's time for the San Francisco crime mid-year report card, and we're not doing so great -- homicide rates are up 20% from last year.

The rumblings from a week ago have been confirmed: Josh Wolf, on his blog, has declared his intent to run for mayor.

Here's todays wrapup of the news

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend...

If you, like us, heard very stressed-out-sounding BART announcements on your commute home today about the Hayward BART station being closed because of a police action and needing to take Richmond trains to get to Fremont last night, that's because four people were shot in the area of the Hayward BART stop around 5:48 p.m. No one is dead, but one person was found injured on a platform and another in a bus zone (we don't know where the third one was). The station was closed and BART trains were allowed to go through but not stop, as the police cordoned off the area. They found one possible suspect in a nearby housing complex and took him into custody.

Last Friday, the Examiner got their hands on a bunch of statistics and a calculator and crunched a whole bunch of numbers about crime in the city. Their verdict is that curiously, the number of homicides has gone up but the number of people arrested for said homicides has gone down. It doesn't take a math major to realize that's not very good.

-Yesterday was a mother fu----ing protest-off over abortion.

The Board of Supes' budget committee were doing performance reviews of various departments in the city to see who is doing what and how well. When they did a review of the SFPD, the results weren't so hot. According to the report, Homicide investigators only "cleared" just thirty-three murders for the 2006 fiscal year that ended July 1. The hoped for number was fifty-five cases. In other words, if the SFPD were a major corporation, there'd be layoffs, pension cuts, and more outsourcing to India. You know, that's one good thing about being a cop: it's probably one of the few jobs that won't eventually be outsourced to India.

Two people saved from gunshots by inanimate objects -- a deputy saved by his belt buckle, and a husband saved from his pistol-waving wife by his La-Z Boy. The wife of the man in the La-Z Boy tried to kill him by shooting him through the back of the chair, but the chair blocked the bullet. The man then got out of the chair and followed his wife into the kitchen, where she tried to shoot him again but the gun jammed. He now says his wife was fooling around with the gun and it fired by accident (twice), that she was on pain meds and drinking at the time, and that they are deeply in love.

--Did you fall back?

Somehow, the world of -ists managed to make it through the week despite news that Jen & Vince broke up.

In one of those stories straight out of a TV show, a security guard for Brinks Trucks, you know the kind of truck that drives around with all that money, was shot and killed this morning after an attempted heist of the truck. While stopping for a bite to eat (at a doughnut shop) at the Fruitvale Shopping Center, a masked assailant hopped into the truck and forced the drivers to go to an industrial site at industrial area at East 10th Street and 23rd Avenue. Somewhere along the way, one of the guards was shot and killed. It is not known how. The assailant is still missing as he ran off with some money when the truck got to the industrial area.

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