A family newly arrived in the Bay Area from Missouri experienced a tragedy last night. 28-year-old Christopher Burton says he arrived home from work to find his wife, Amy Freeman Burton, 37, dead of a gunshot wound, along with 13-year-old daughter Ainsly Freeman, also shot. Freeman was still alive when ambulances reached the home, but died a short while later at Castro Valley Medical Center. more ›

Coty Luster, an 18-year-old man, was shot "multiple times" near his home in West Oakland. The incident occurred Thursday in the 1100 block of 34th Street. Luster was pronounced dead at the scene at around 8:45 p.m. Police have neither a motive nor a suspect in custody. more ›

Egads. A transient man set fire to his wife on Monday, killing her. The fiery fatality occurred on the 100 block of South Second Street in San Jose. Barton Williams, 49, was arrested accused of murdering his wife, Patricia Storey, 64. According to Mercury News: "[Police Sgt. Jason] Dwyer said it's not clear what led to the violence, but because the victim and suspect were married, investigators are looking into whether it was the result of a domestic dispute. He wasn't sure if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the killing." more ›

After Kim Conover, 31, paid a visit to her divorce attorney on Sunday afternoon, her estranged husband, Kevin Covover, 35, shot and killed her outside said lawyer's office, later turning the gun on himself. "The 2 p.m. shooting happened in front of 10 Keller St., a small office building where the woman had been visiting the attorney," reports The Press Democrat, adding, " Kevin Conover died at 5 p.m. at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Police identified him as the shooter and said his wound appears to have been self-inflicted." more ›

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan spoke out about the mass shooting at Oikos University on Monday. During a news conference, Quan questioned the link between mass shooting sprees and our country's readily available guns, saying: "No american mayor wants to have this situation. it seems that over the last decade, we've gotten used to seeing senseless mass killings like this, and we have to question the availability of guns." more ›

A man was fatally shot last night around 11:30 p.m. inside a home in the Ingleside neighborhood. Details are scarce at this point, but we know the shooting happened at 356 Louisburg Street, just two blocks away from the home at 16 Howth Street where alleged gang member Binh Thai Luc allegedly murdered five people a week ago Friday. more ›

The fallout from the sad and unnecessary murder of 67-year-old Peter Cukor last month, outside his home in the Berkeley hills, continues to rain down on Berkeley police chief Michael Meehan. And now we hear that Meehan went ballistic trying to manage the story after the Bay City News Bay Area News Group originally reported that he had apologized for the Berkeley PD's slow response to the incident during a community meeting. more ›

Earlier today we reported on the various updates, both official and unofficial, regarding Friday's gruesome Howth Street murders. Today the medical examiner has officially identified the victims, and makes it official that the Lei family and one additional female were killed. more ›

Cue FOX News talking-head outrage: Binh Thai Luc, 35, the man alleged to have committed Friday's particularly brutal mass murder in San Francisco's Ingelside District, had been ordered for deportation back to Vietnam in 2002. The estimable Jason Dearen of Associated Press reports: more ›

Although initially confirmed by some local journalists as a "murder-suicide," Friday's quintuple murder at 16 Howth Street was allegedly the work of 35-year-old Binh Thai Luc. According to SF Appeal, "Homicide Inspectors arrested 35-year-old Binh Thai Luc...for the five homicides. In addition, they arrested his brother, 33-year-old Brian Luc for narcotics possession, a felon in possession of ammunition and for a probation violation. These brothers reside together in San Francisco." more ›

Five family members were reportedly found dead around 7:45 this morning inside a home on the first block of Howth Street, near City College, possibly by a juvenile girl arriving home at that hour. more ›

The quiet, deep-East Bay city of Brentwood was the site of a tragic scene Wednesday afternoon when a husband and wife were killed in an apparent murder-suicide. The couple, who were in their 40s, were discovered by their teenage daughter. more ›

Roland Pouncy, the man accused of strangling Richard Sprague to death back in February, has pled not guilty to the murder and robbery charges in court today. more ›

Roland Pouncy, 42, of San Francisco has been charged with the robbery and strangling murder of Richard Sprague on Julian Avenue back in February. Pouncy was originally named a suspected in the murder after he was found with the victim's ATM card. more ›

On Saturday Friday night, 39-year-old Ronald Monzon of Newman, CA was shot and killed in San Francisco's Mission District. SFPD responded to reports of gunfire near 23rd and Shotwell streets at 7:20 p.m. They found a man suffering from several bullet wounds inside a car. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. more ›

Only three months in and Oakland has played host to an astounding 24 homicides in 2012. A unidentified man was shot and killed inside his apartment over on the 2100 block of 10th Avenue Wednesday night. "Police have detained a person for questioning in connection with the shooting," reports Oakland Tribune. "The name and age of the person detained were not released, nor did police release a possible motive in the shooting." more ›

You may recall the tragic triple homicide of last fall that took place late one Saturday night outside a warehouse party for tattoo enthusiasts in San Leandro. The incident claimed the life of 19-year-old S.F. resident Shanice Kiel, who had been accepted at S.F. State, and two of her friends sitting in an SUV with her at the time. Now four men were charged on Monday with three counts of murder, as well as four counts of attempted murder for other victims injured that night and one who ran away without injury. more ›

A man was shot and killed last night while driving a Bentley in East Oakland, and his car proceeded to roll half a block and collide with at least two other cars head-on, including one containing a family with two children, both of whom were hospitalized with injuries. And if the guy was driving a Bentley in East Oakland, is it a stretch to presume he didn't work at Target? more ›

A man was shot early Sunday in East Oakland, and then he was run over, just to make sure the job was done. The incident happened about 3 a.m. on the 1000 block of 88th Avenue, and the victim's name hasn't been released. more ›

We know this may just sound like the Chron hating on Occupy again, but police dispatch tapes from Berkeley on February 18 — the evening that 67-year-old Peter Cukor was (allegedly) bludgeoned to death outside his home by unmedicated schizophrenic Daniel DeWitt — reveal that officers in the vicinity were aware of the non-emergency call Cukor placed, and were instructed not to respond because an Occupy Oakland march was headed to the UC Berkeley campus. more ›

You'll recall the tragic story of Richard Sprague, the 47-year-old man who was attacked on Julian Avenue in the Mission two weekends ago while out to buy cigarettes and who subsequently died and was found some five hours later? Well, investigators now say he was strangled, not stabbed, as was initially reported. more ›

Eric Mora, 55, of Oakland has maintained his innocence in the 2004 disappearance of ex-girlfriend Cynthia Alonzo, but he was convicted yesterday for her murder. Alonzo, who was 48 at the time, was never seen again after late November 2004, and her blood was found in Mora's home. No body was ever found. more ›

Well, this is just sad: 47-year-old Richard Sprague, the man who was left dying on Julian Avenue on February 19 and lay there moaning for five hours before anyone took notice, actually walked with a cane following an accident two years ago in which he was hit by a truck while trying to cross a San Francisco street. As his sister tells the Examiner, "San Francisco hasn't been kind to him." more ›

The suspect in the murder of 67-year-old Peter Cukor over the weekend believed that he was psychic and that he could find his fiancé on the victim's property. Cukor's wife has already said in a statement that she witnessed part of the attack, in which the suspect, 23-year-old Daniel Jordan Dewitt, ultimately smashed a flower pot over Cukor's head. more ›

The Mission District played host to the city's 8th murder of the year after 47-year-old Richard Sprague was mugged and stabbed on Julian Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets. Mission Local report that a Sprague was attacked sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. He cried out for several hours after being stabbed. more ›

A dead man was found this morning in a ravine in the unincorporated Alameda County territory known as Cherryland, underneath some elevated BART tracks near Hayward. A neighborhood woman has surmised it may be a homeless man. more ›

A man was stabbed to death last night just before 7 p.m. in a Fifth Street homeless shelter run by the St. Vincent de Paul Society. An assailant fled the scene and remains and at large. The victim was pronounced dead at S.F. General. more ›

A 61-year-old woman was shot and killed in her Santa Rosa home Sunday afternoon, just before the Super Bowl kickoff around 2 p.m. Neighbors heard a gunshot, followed by a woman screaming, and saw a man between the ages of 35 and 40 leave the apartment at 934 Clark Street and drive off in a silver car. The motive for the killing is still unknown. more ›