SF News Developments In German Tourist's Murder Case Coincide With Family's Visit To SF Interim Police Chief Jeff Godown announced yesterday that the case involving the shooting of Mechthild Schröer, the German elementary school headmaster who was killed by a stray bullet as the result of a
SF News Richmond Mother Fatally Shot Near West Oakland Park Beatrice Burton, a 33-year-old mother of two, was involved in a fatal drive-by shooting in West Oakland last night near Poplar Park at 30th and Union streets at 9:45 p.m. Burton,
SF News Sunday Morning SoMa Dispute Prompts Fatal Shooting Two men from the city of Richmond were shot on Sunday night during a dispute in a SoMa parking lot. One of the victims succumbed to his injures. The incident happened on Jessie
SF News Livermore Road Rage Incident Leads To Alleged Homicide Cort Holbrook, 41, who The Chronicle notes works as an engineer, was arrested yesterday afternoon under suspicion of murder for allegedly stabbing another driver during a traffic-related dispute in Livermore. The victim drove
SF News SFist Blotter: A Lower Haight Rape, a Nob Hill Murder Hayes Valley / Rape: Police are in search of a man suspected of raping a woman near Octavia and Market at around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. The alleged rapist was about
SF News January Homicide Toll In the month of January this year, homicides more than doubled in major Bay Area cities. San Francisco had 11 (compared to just 5 in 2010), Oakland also played host to 11 (a
SF News Updated: Two Shot, Killed, In Fisherman's Wharf View Larger Map UPDATE: Fifty-six-year-old Hong Ri Wu of San Francisco, was arrested at the scene and booked on suspicion of two counts of murder. Wu is suspected of shooting the victims, who
SF News S.F. To Pay $4M In Case Involving Torture Of Foster Twins The Contra Costa Times has published disheartening details that have emerged in the lawsuit against the city of San Francisco regarding the torture of Jazzmin Davis and her twin brother at the hands
SF News Suspect Arrested in Tenderloin Cafe Murder An arrest has been made in connection with the murder that took place at Jebana Cafe at Polk and Geary in broad daylight last Thursday. Police arrested Jodie Daniels, 29, of El Cerrito
SF News Christmas Skateboard Attack 50th S.F. Homicide in 2010 The Examiner reports that there was an apparent skateboard bashing that happened last month, which the victim died from a few days later. The attack occurred early Christmas morning at 12:45 a.
SF News S.F.'s First Homicide of 2011 Yesterday San Francisco's first homicide of 2011 occurred on Saturday afternoon in the Tenderloin at Turk and Taylor Streets. The victim has been identified as Larry Lacy, aged 20, who was sitting with a
SF News Hillsborough Plays Host To First Reported Homicide Since '04 Deliriously wealthy Hillsborough, located 17 miles south of San Francisco on the Peninsula, played host to its first reported murder since 2004. Bradley Kleiman, 30, allegedly shot and killed his friend in self-defense
SF News Who Murdered Pearla Louis? That's what the SFPD wants to know, who killed Pearla Louis and stuffed her inside a suitcase and tossed her into the SF Bay? On Tuesday, if you recall, Louis' body was found
SF News Body Found In Suitcase Identified SF Appeal reports that police released the identity of the woman found inside a suitcase floating on the waterfront near the Embarcadero. "The victim is a 52-year-old African-American woman named Pearla Louis," notes
SF News Double Homicide In Hayward Two bodies were discovered at the Bay Cities Auto Auction at 29901 Industrial Parkway Southwest in Hayward this morning. CBS 5/BCN reports: "One body was found on the pavement outside the front
SF News SF Sees Lowest Homicide Rate Since 1961 With a comparatively scant 45 homicides, and "a decline in lethal shootings, stabbings and bludgeonings of more than 50 percent from both 2007 and 2008," San Francisco will see a shockingly low homicide
SF News Arrests Have Been Made in Yesterday's Fatal Shooting in the Mission 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
SF News SF Homicide #34 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
SF News UPDATED: Dead Body Found in Castro Apartment 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
SF News McLaren Park Body Tied to Your Black Muslim Bakery Lunatics 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
SF News Family, Friends of Hugues de la Plaza Consider Suing City for Negligence 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
SF News Baby Shaking Death Brings Berkeley 2009 Homicide Tally to 4 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
SF News Elderly Lake Merritt Woman's Brutal Death Increases Oakland Residents' Fears 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
SF News Wu Arrested in Santa Clara Triple Homicide 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
SF News From 100 To 97 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
