• Police believe that a Santa Rosa man, who recently stabbed himself with a homemade spear just seconds before the fuzz burst through his front door early Sunday morning, is possibly connected to last Thursday's carjacking and rape incident involving a 29-year-old mother. According to the Gate, "Aristotle Quadra, 30, faces charges of carjacking, kidnapping, sexual assault and attempted murder. He is being held at a Santa Rosa hospital while being treated for self-inflicted stab wounds."

    If you recall, last Thursday a mother, while loading groceries into her car at a local Safeway, was approached by a man, carjacked, taken to a secluded area, and then sexually assaulted as her daughter was in the car.

  • A San Francisco City College and Saint Mary's College instructor was found slain in his car at Montara Beach this past Saturday night. According to the Gate:
    A man sitting in the driver's seat of the car was arrested on suspicion of murdering John Alfred Dennis Jr., 59, a long-time resident of Oakland's Sequoyah Hills neighborhood who worked at City College of San Francisco and Saint Mary's College in Moraga. Oakland police identified the driver as Troy Thomas of Oakland.

    A Berkeley native, Dennis had a Ph.D. and a master's degree from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Read more about his life here and here.

    UPDATE: Dennis allegedly knew the man who shot him "for quite some time, since his teenage years." Sad. Read more about it here.