SF News ‘Straight Outta Hunters Point’ Filmmaker Kevin Epps Found Not Guilty of 2016 Murder, But Guilty of Voluntary Manslaughter In a packed SF Superior Court room, SF filmmaker Kevin Epps was found not guilty of the murder of his one-time brother-in-law, but was still found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which comes with a three- to eleven-year prison sentence.
SF News Trial Finally Underway for 2021 Killing of 84-Year-Old ‘Grandpa Vicha’ Ratanapakdee Nearly five full years after the unprovoked killing of an 84-year-old Thai immigrant in Anza Vista, the long-delayed trial for the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee got underway Monday at SF Superior Court.
SF News Dive Teams Searching Lake Merritt for Gun Used to Kill Condor Club Manager A strange twist in the investigation of the murder of the Condor Club strip joint manager, as while the shooting happened in Santa Rosa, police now believe that the murder weapon may be lying at the bottom of Lake Merritt.
SF News Killer of Visitacion Valley’s 88-Year-Old ‘Grandma Huang’ Sentenced to Life In Prison It’s actually two consecutive life sentences for the 25-year-old man found guilty of brutally beating and killing 88-year-old Yik Oi Huang in Visitacion Valley in January 2019, and then robbing her house immediately afterwards.
SF News Alleged Shooter of Laney College Football Coach Reportedly Claimed Coach Used Witchcraft on Him It appears there are some mental health issues with the 27-year-old man accused of shooting and killing Laney College coach John Beam, as he reportedly told investigators that he shot Beam because he thought Beam was performing witchcraft on him.
SF News SF Man Found Guilty of Murdering 88-Year–Old Grandmother in Vis Valley Park, Plus Many Other Robberies, Carjackings The suspect in the fatal beating of 88-year–old grandmother Yik Oi Huang has just been found guilty, and for good measure, he was also found guilty of robbing her house afterward, plus a slew of other robberies and carjackings.
SF News Condor Club Manager’s Shooting May Have Been Motivated by Couple Getting Fired As Santa Rosa police sift through evidence in the killing of Condor Club manager Mark Calcagni, they’ve arrested a couple that both used to work there, and say the pair’s firing was "at least one motivating factor" in the alleged murder.
SF News 22-Year-Old Charged With Murder for Allegedly Selling Fentanyl to Two Santa Rosa Teens Who Fatally OD'd Two Santa Rosa teens died from overdoses, and two more were hospitalized in February after ingesting what they thought was cocaine but "was most likely fentanyl." The 22-year-old who sold it to them is now facing murder charges.
SF News Condor Club General Manager Shot and Killed Outside His Santa Rosa Home The general manager of SF’s famed first topless club The Condor was shot and killed Friday near his Santa Rosa home, and police are flummoxed as to who shot Mark Calcagni, and why.
SF News Double Homicide Shocks Walnut Creek, Two Women Found Dead Inside Home Two women who were apparently related to one another were found dead inside a Walnut Creek home late Thursday night, and police are investigating the matter as a double homicide.
SF News Apparent Murder Weapon Found in Burning Man Homicide, But Still No Suspects Identified The Pershing County, Nevada’s Sheriff’s Office says they’ve recovered a large knife they suspect is the murder weapon used to kill a 37-year-old Russian national at Burning Man, and that it was used to stab him in the neck.
SF News Community Remembers SF Father Stabbed and Killed Outside SF Elementary School Last Week SF community figures are offering their condolences to the family of 35-year-old Robert Byrd II, who was stabbed and killed last Wednesday afternoon near Commodore Sloat Elementary School after picking up his eight-year-old son from school.
SF News Convicted Serial Killer Joseph Naso Confesses to 26 Murders in New Documentary In a new documentary airing on Oxygen, convicted serial killer and rapist Joseph Naso confessed to killing 26 victims, including 19-year-old Pamela Lambson on Mount Tam in 1977, originally pinned on “The Dating Game Killer” in 2011.
SF News Parents of Baby Reported Missing In Southern California Arrested on Suspicion of Murder A seven-month-old infant was reported missing by his mother last week, kidnapped outside of a Big 5 Sporting Goods store in San Bernardino County. The case has grown stranger, and now both the child's parents have been arrested.
SF News Murder Charge Dropped In Case of Richmond Realtor Who Shot Romantic Rival Alameda County prosecutors have dropped the charges against Terryan McDowell, the Richmond-based realtor who fatally shot a romantic rival at the Oakland apartment of the woman they were both seeing.
SF News Disbarred SF Attorney Sentenced to Life In Prison For His Role In Murderous 2008 ‘Gay Grifters’ Scandal In a bizarre case that’s been in the courts for more than 15 years, a disgraced one-time SF lawyer has been sentenced to life without parole for helping four “gay grifters” murder an art gallery owner and sell off his possessions.
SF News 21-Year-Old Charged With Murder for Shooting Woman Walking Her Dogs In San Leandro A 21-year-old man faces murder charges and possible life in prison for shooting a woman walking her dogs in San Leandro last Thursday night. It’s the second fatal shooting in the last month of someone walking their dog in San Leandro.
SF News Four of Five Suspects Have Reportedly Already Pleaded Guilty in Shooting of UC Berkeley Professor in Greece The alleged "hired hit” murder of a UC Berkeley professor definitely looks to be a hired hit, with four of the five alleged collaborators having already reportedly pleaded guilty, but the man’s ex-wife insists she knew nothing of the scheme.
SF News New Details Emerge In Case of Oakland Parole Officer Shooting Death The man facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a state parole officer last week in Oakland was a parolee who had appearently missed an appointment with his parole officer one day earlier.
SF News San Jose Drug Dealer Charged With Murder for a Baby’s Accidental Fentanyl Death — For the Second Time The same alleged drug dealer is accused of selling the fentanyl that killed two different babies in two separate incidents three months apart in San Jose, and now he and the first baby’s father are facing murder charges.
SF News Ex-Wife of Berkeley Professor Shot in Greece Arrested for Allegedly Arranging His Murder A wild turn of events in the story of a UC Berkeley professor who was shot execution-style in Greece on July 4, as his ex-wife has been arrested by Greek police on suspicion that she had his murder arranged.
SF News A Year After Murder of 19-Year-Old Lowell Grad In Dolores Park, One Suspect Arrested The community mourned last June when recent Lowell High grad Luis Arguello Inglis was shot and killed in Dolores Park. Now a year later, a suspect has been arrested and is in custody.
SF News Daly City Man Sentenced to 15 Years to Life for Murdering Estranged Wife With Four-Year-Old Son in Next Room Justice was apparently finally served after it stumbled the first time around, as a man who initially got off on a mistrial was finally convicted and sentenced for killing his wife and then pointing the gun at her four-year-old son.
SF News Cold Case Murder of Woman Found In Tilden Park In 1990 Is Solved Through DNA A 35-year-old unsolved mystery from the East Bay has been solved, however the murder suspect is not around to face justice.
SF News Oakland Police Arrest More Youngsters for Fatal Shooting After They Stole a Scooter When three deplorable teens stole a scooter the day after Christmas, a father confronted them, and they shot and killed him. Now Oakland Police have arrested an 11-year-old and a 13-year-old for their involvement.
