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.
SF News 97-Year-Old Sacramento Woman Murdered, Grandson and His Girlfriend Arrested for the Killing A 40-year-old man and his romantic partner stand accused of killing the man’s 97-year-old Sacramento grandmother and dumping her in the trunk of a car, and they also allegedly emptied out the household’s safes.
SF News Two Men Face Charges for Oakland Murder of Man Whose Body Was Found Wrapped in Plastic Garbage Bag Seven weeks ago, Oakland Police found a dead body abandoned and wrapped in a garbage bag in West Oakland. Now they’re naming two suspects, one of whom has been arrested, and the other is still at large.
SF News Family of Woman Shoved In Front of BART Train Sues BART The family of Corazon Dandan has filed suit against the BART agency for wrongful death, alleging that the transit system was aware of the threat posed by the man accused of shoving Dandan in front of a moving train last July.
SF News Oakland 15-Year-Old Charged With Killing Neighborhood Father After Stealing His Son’s Scooter A 15-year-old East Oakland teen allegedly shot and killed a father who confronted him for stealing his son’s scooter on the day after Christmas, and Oakland Police arrested and charged that 15-year-old on Monday.
SF News Four Found Dead In Santa Rosa Senior Community From Apparent Homicide, Senior Community Obviously Shocked A Wednesday afternoon welfare check in the Santa Rosa senior community of Valle Vista found four people dead, and while police are ruling it a homicide, they’re not saying much more about the circumstances.
SF News Testimony Underway for Pittsburg Siblings Accused of Shooting Carmel 19-Year-Old in Love Triangle Dispute The 2021 murder of 19-year-old Leilani Beauchamp now has a brother and sister on trial for the murder, and while they say the shooting was an accident, their alleged gruesome disposal of the body in rural Salinas has them answering some tough questions on the stand.
SF News Union City Man Found Guilty of 2021 Murder of Trans Drag Artist Natalia Smüt In what appears to be Santa Clara County’s first guilty verdict in a transgender domestic homicide case, a 25-year-old Union City man was convicted of killing then-24-year-old Natalia Smüt Lopez of San Jose.
SF News LA District Attorney Gascón Unveils New Evidence That May Reopen Menendez Brothers Case New evidence has come to light in the notorious Menendez brothers case, including a one-time member of the band Menudo giving sworn claims of sexual abuse by the brothers’ father, and LA District Attorney George Gascón may reopen the case.
SF News Stats Show SFPD Very Effective at Solving Murders, But Worst in the State at Solving Most Other Crimes The good news is that the SFPD solved 94% of all homicides committed in SF last year. The bad news is that SFPD ranks worst of all major California police departments in solving nearly every other form of crime.
SF News 70-Year-Old Convicted Child Molester Slain In Cell at San Quentin Prison, Cellmate Suspected of Murder San Quentin prison officials are saying it’s a homicide after a 70-year-old child molestation convict was found unresponsive in his cell and later died, and his 36-year-old kidnapping convict cellmate is suspected of doing the deed.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed in Tenderloin Apartment on Labor Day, Suspect in Custody An unnamed man was stabbed and killed in a Leavenworth Street apartment on Monday afternoon, and a 37-year-old suspect was arrested for the killing shortly afterward.
SF News Woman Shot and Killed in Oakland Identified, Was Mother of Eight Confronting Alleged Drug Dealers We now know the identity of the woman who was fatally shot in East Oakland last Wednesday, as 33-year-old mother of eight Maria Ramos was shot while attempting to confront a group of alleged drug dealers.
SF News 37-Year-Old Pregnant Woman Murdered In San Mateo, Boyfriend Arrested While Apparently Fleeing to SoCal A yet-unidentified pregnant woman in San Mateo was killed Sunday, and the police department there identified her 33-year-old boyfriend Andrew Coleman as the suspect. He was arrested five hours later in West Covina, seemingly attempting to flee.
SF News Arrest Made in Brutal 1982 Cold Case Murder and Rape of a 13-Year-Old Girl in Cloverdale The ruthless killing of 13-year-old Sarah Ann Geer was a case that had gone cold for 42 years, but Cloverdale police used genetic tests to finally determine and arrest a 62-year-old suspect.
SF News Nearly Three-Hour Police Standoff In San Jose Ends With Discovery of Woman’s Dead Body San Jose police responded to reports of a possible shooting Monday night, with a suspect barricading himself inside a home for nearly three hours once they arrived, and a woman's dead body being found in the home after he surrendered.
SF News 13-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Fatal Stabbing at San Leandro Safeway A 13-year-old boy is facing murder charges over a fatal stabbing that occurred at the San Leandro Safeway on Bancroft Avenue, and San Leandro police arrested the young suspect while he was at school.
SF News SF Federal Judge Hands Down 10-Year Sentence for Man Who Hired Assassin to Kill Zimbabwean Model Ex-Partner A San Francisco-based federal judge is sending an attorney to prison for ten years, after he hired a hitman to kill his estranged partner, a Zimbabwean fashion icon, but unfortunately for him the hitman was actually an undercover FBI agent.
SF News Former SF AIDS Foundation Employee Brutally Murdered in New York City The SF HIV/AIDS prevention community is mourning the loss of 33-year-old Melanie Woods, a staple at fundraisers and events, who spent nearly three years organizing those events for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
SF News Two Suspects Plead Guilty, Take Plea Deals in Fatal Shooting of Pleasanton Home Depot Employee Pleasanton Home Depot security guard Blake Mohs was shot and killed trying to thwart a shoplifting last April, and the two suspects involved have just pleaded guilty to knock a few years off their sentences.
SF News Family of Murdered Dublin Couple Outraged Over Attempt to Reduce Charges for Former Alameda County Deputy The family of double-murder victims Maria and Benison Tran, who were fatally shot in their Dublin home in September 2022, were protesting Wednesday over a reduced charging decision by Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.
SF News Fourth Suspect Charged With Murder in Fatal Shooting of OPD Officer in December Dispensary Burglary While three suspects had been charged with murder in the December 29 shooting and killing of Oakland police officer Tuan Le, a fourth figured he could just plead guilty to robbing the cannabis shop and have that be that. But now that suspect is facing murder charges too.
SF News Well-Known Oakland Auto Repair Shop Owner Shot and Killed in His Own Store A 68-year-old Oakland auto repair shop owner, who once worked alongside Cesar Chavez in the United Farm Workers movement, was on the verge of retirement. But he was shot and killed in his shop, ending that dream.
