SF News Homeless Man Killed in Santa Cruz Campsite; Three People Arrested A 51-year-old homeless man was found dead Friday in a park in Santa Cruz, and three people have been jailed in connection with his murder. The victim was found dead at a campsite
SF News Crass Murderer Asks Jurors To Flip Coin To Decide Fate When Nathan Burris isn't offending the family of the woman she murdered, he's asking jurors to flip a coin in order to decide his fate. Burris, if you recall, was convicted last week
SF News Police Seek Suspects In World Series Beating Death Police need your help finding the five men who allegedly took part in beating to death a man celebrating the World Series win in the Upper Haight. The incident happened on October 28
SF News Hayward Teens Arrested For Brutal Castro Valley Murder Two teenagers, Christian Birdsall, 16 and Cody Nicosia, 18, stand accused of beating to death Barbara Latiolais whose body was found inside her burning Castro Valley house on October 18, which authorities believe
SF News Man Shot, Killed Near 16th and Valencia A 22-year-old man was shot in the upper torso while walking either on Caledonia Street or 15th Street early Saturday morning at around 2:45 a.m. He seems to have run to
SF News Oakland, Stockton Most Violent American Cities, Says Forbes On the heels of Forbes annual Priciest ZIP Codes List comes their annual list of America's Most Dangerous Cities — and, surprise, there is no overlap between the two. As for the latter, the
SF News Young Man's Murder Marks Oakland's 100th Homicide Of The Year A little before 1 a.m. today, a 21-year-old man was shot multiple times and killed in East Oakland, making it the city's 100th reported homicide of 2012. This particularly brutal shooting occurred
SF News Police Seek Help Finding Suspect in June Murder Outside Double Dutch On June 8, S.F.'s 29th homicide victim was brutally beaten and shot in the head outside Double Dutch on 16th Street. His name was Lorenzo Jimenez, he lived in Sacramento, and
SF News Veteran Arrested for Shooting Two Neighbors In Vallejo There's a curious case of a double homicide yesterday evening in Vallejo, just as the presidential debate was kicking off, in which a 65-year-old Vietnam vet shot his two male neighbors, with whom
SF News Woman Whose Body Was Found Burning in Rockridge Was Apparently Bound and Raped By Boyfriend, Others A witness in the case of the murder of 21-year-old Monica Rodas-Alfaro, whose burning body was found dumped in Rockridge last July, says that three men, including Rodas-Alfaro's boyfriend, bound her hands with
SF News Man 'Stripped Naked' and Killed at 26th and Treat [Update] Uptown Almanac posted some disturbing news this morning: they've received a couple of reports that a man was "stripped naked" and "executed" at 26th and Treat. yesterday afternoon around 4 p.m. (A
SF News Man and Woman Shot, Killed Inside Vallejo Home While Toddler Slept A 28-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man were shot by two assailants inside their home on the 1000 block of Atherton Street in Vallejo last night. The incident happened around 9:18 p.
SF News Victim Of Lower Pacific Heights Shooting Dies A man was shot near the Westside Courts housing project in Lower Pacific Heights early Saturday morning, and succumbed to his injuries at S.F. General on Sunday, according to the SFPD. Jonathan
Arts & Entertainment COPPER Crime Contest Answer: The Mystery Of The Mutilated Man, Solved As the new BBC America crime drama COPPER shows, 1860s New York was a dangerous, backstabbing place. And the real-life 1864 murder of "John Smith", whose body was chopped up, packaged and dropped
SF News Man Arrested In Apartment Shooting of Emeryville Woman 19-year-old DeAngelo Eagleton was arrested last week in Chico on an Emeryville Police warrant for the June 4th shooting death of 18 year-old Taranda Monique Jones. Jones was shot inside her home on
Arts & Entertainment COPPER Crime Contest: Solve A Real 1860s Murder Mystery—And Win An iPad While today's news are filled with shocking crimes with awful details, they are as grisly and lurid as they were in the 19th century. Starting this Sunday, August 19, BBC America's intense new
SF News Homeless Woman Killed By Samurai Sword in San Jose An apparent battle between two mentally ill people in San Jose yesterday ended with one slitting the other's throat with a samurai sword, and killing her. Things began with an incident yesterday morning
SF News Poll: Should California Abolish The Death Penalty This November? When Californians head to their polling places to cast their big Obama vs. Romney votes this election season, they will also have the first opportunity, in over three decades, to abolish the practice
SF News New Gang War in S.F.?: Two More Men Shot Tuesday Night [Updated] Following Monday's double-homicide of two alleged Towerside gang members in Visitacion Valley, another man was killed and one other injured Tuesday night nearby in the Portola district, on the 3000 block of San
SF News 18-Year-Old SF Teen Murdered The body of Elijah Hopkins, 18, was found today behind a home in Diamond Heights. According to the Chron, he was found with multiple gunshot wounds at around 9:30 a.m. on
SF News 22-Year-Old Man Murdered in Bayview Housing Project Friday The 22-year-old victim of a fatal shooting Friday night in the Alice Griffith public-housing complex has been identified as Henry Tautolo of San Francisco. He was shot multiple times in the torso. The
SF News Oakland Man Pleads Guilty to Double Murder of Mother and Infant Some of you may recall the gruesome discoveries of the bodies of 23-year-old Zoelina Toney of West Oakland and her 17-month-old son Jashon Williams back in November 2009, both of whom were found
SF News 25-Year-Old Man Murdered on Sixth Street Friday Night [Updated] The city marked its 40th homicide of 2012 last night with the shooting of a 25-year-old man near Sixth and Stevenson around 11 p.m. The man was found by arriving officers lying
SF News Movie Theater Shooting Caps Off Especially Violent Weekend in Oakland; Four Homicides In Total It was yet another violent weekend in Oakland, with three fatal shootings Friday and five people shot outside the Regal Cinemas Jack London Square on Sunday. This of course doesn't help the city's
SF News Two Additional Suspects Charged in Pimp Murder More details are emerging about the June 4 shooting death of alleged pimp Calvin Sneed of Compton. Originally, the only two suspects were Lupe Mercado, 37, and Barry Gilton, 38, who have been
