Happy day after, All Hallow's Eve. Although the Castro was tame, others parts of the Bay Area, it seems, were not.

Last night at Washington Park in Alameda, a 15-year-old girl was shot and killed in a robbery. According to the the Chron, "the girl was with about 10 friends when five or six teenage boys whom they didn't recognize approached them." One of the guys in the approaching gaggle shot five shots into the air, and then one in her back. She was pronounced dead at Highland Hospital in Oakland. No arrests have been made in connection with her murder. (Don't they draw the bridges, or something like that, when a serious crime happens on the island?)

Speaking of teenagers, a 17-year-old boy was charged as an adult for murder. A student from Irvington High School some damn school, he shot and killed a neighbor across the street from his high school, a 24-year-old man. Now, we know juveniles often are charged as adults, but...why? Is it the more grizzly the crime, the better chance that that some teen will get charged as an adult? Lawyer types, fill us in.

And now for some sad news. Someone at last night's Halloween in the Castro was arrested for jaywalking. Also, three other were pinched for visible tipsiness. See, it's people like this that ruin it for the rest of us.