SF News 'Overwhelming' Majority Of All Calif. Homicides Used Firearms The "Homicide in California 2010" (pdf) report showed a significant decrease in the number of murders. Numbers say that homicides declined from 1,970 in 2009 to 1,809 in 2010. Oakland Tribune
SF News Alleged Former Black Liberation Army 'Warrior' Ronald Bridgeforth Comes Forward in 43-Year-Old Shooting Successful fugitive Ronald Stanley Bridgeforth, who may or may not have been a member of the Black Liberation Army in San Francisco an extra-violent off-shoot of the Black Panthers was charged a few
SF News Gary Scott Holland Pleads Guilty in Russian Hill Murder As expected Gary Scott Holland, the parolee accused of murdering 46-year-old Kate Horan after posing as a utility worker to gain entry to her Russian Hill home, pled guilty to murder in Superior
SF News Accused Murderer Gary Scott Holland to Possibly Take Plea Deal Gary Scott Holland, the 43-year-old parolee and alleged Satanist who is accused of posing as a PG&E worker to invade the Marina apartment of Kate Horan and murder her, may be
SF News Hells Angel Killed in Hit-and-Run, Dragged Down Freeway The Hells Angels sure have been in the news a bunch lately, with that funeral murder and the suspect disappearing (and there was the whole mortgage fraud thing too). And now one of
SF News SFist Blotter: Shots Fired at CHP Downtown; Murder in Healdsburg Financial District / Shots Fired: A car chase that led CHP officers off the freeway and into downtown S.F. Saturday night ended with the driver crashing near the TransAmerica pyramid and subsequently firing
SF News SFSU Student One of Three Killed at San Leandro 'Tattoo Party' Gunmen open-fired, with semi-automatic weapons, shortly after a party let out Saturday night/early Sunday outside a warehouse in San Leandro, killing three people and wounding three others. The party, publicized on Facebook
SF News Mendocino Murder Suspect Aaron Bassler: Not Going Down Without a Gunfight There's a manhunt straight out of the movies happening in the dense woodland around Fort Bragg, up in typically quiet Mendocino County. The other day we posted about a surveillance-camera sighting of murder
SF News Mendocino Authorities Say They're Closing In on Accused Murderer Aaron Bassler The manhunt continues for the fourth straight week for murder suspect Aaron Bassler, who allegedly shot and killed a Fort Bragg city councilman on August 27 in the woods outside of town. New
SF News Dog That Discovered Michelle Le's Remains Was Named for Murdered Girl The volunteer responsible for finding the remains of murdered nursing student Michelle Le on Saturday morning was the mother of a young girl who was murdered just two years ago. Carrie McGonigle of
SF News SFist Blotter: Woman Stabs Man, Claims He Was Intruder; 14-Year-Old Shot in South S.F.; Valencia Gardens Shooting Bayview / Stabbing: Athena Wortham, 42, stabbed and killed a man at her Bayview home whom she claimed was an intruder. This all happened around 4 a.m. Sunday. Police have now booked Wortham
SF News Popular San Jose Radio Host Carjacked, Killed Cindy Nguyen, 60, a Vietnamese-language radio host on AM 1290 KAZA in San Jose, was carjacked Saturday night after having some reported "car trouble" and pulling into a Target shopping center. She called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foodie Quote Of The Year: Mission Murders Are Cool The disparity between real life and the city's increasingly out-of-touch gastronomic set came to light over the weekend when Mission Local published a revealing article about the overlap of foodies and gangs in
SF News SFist Blotter: Third Mission Shooting In A Week; Man Dies In Fire Mission / Murder: A shooting on Camp Street (near Guerrero and 16th Streets) marks the third Mission homicide in a week. An unidentified man in his 40s was shot several times and killed by
SF News SFist Blotter: Mission Shooting, SoMa Drug Robbery, Drunken Panhandle Assault Mission / Shooting: Police today increased efforts to learn more about the daylight killing of 18 year-old Kevin Hall, who was shot near the intersection of Alemany Boulevard and Crescent Avenue on August 25.
SF News Fort Bragg Suspect Wanted in Second Murder, Was Growing Opium Poppies Aaron Bassler, suspected of shooting Fort Bragg city councilman Jere Melo last Saturday, remains at large, and now his father has come forward to tell reporters that his son is schizophrenic, and that
SF News SFist Blotter: 22nd Murder in Richmond, Three More in Oakland Richmond / Murder: Another weekend in Richmond ends with another dead: One man was wounded and a woman was killed as they drove into an apartment complex at the corner of Eighth Street and
SF News SFist Blotter: Father-Son Murder-Suicide on Peninsula; Carjacking in SoMa Santa Clara County / Murder-Suicide: Two men's bodies were found in a home on Wednesday on the 14000 block of Clara Street in unincorporated Santa Clara County, and they've now been identified as 50-year-old
SF News Citizens In Richmond to Gather This Evening to Discuss Gang War We mentioned earlier today that Saturday's homicide in Richmond brings the murder rate on par, for the first seven months of the year, with the city's total homicides in 2010, totaling 21. Much
SF News SFist Blotter: Man With Coke All Over Face Arrested in Mission, Richmond Murder Marks Number 21 Mission / Gun Possession & Narcotics Possession: A man was arrested during a routine police check at a bar on the 3700 block of Mission on Saturday night. We're thinking this is one of
SF News Two Men Arrested in Oakland in Connection With Burning Body Last week's disturbing case of a burning female body that was dumped in the middle of a quiet Rockridge Street early one morning appears to be heading somewhere. First, the victim was identified
SF News SFist Blotter: More Richmond Shooting, More Oakland Shooting, Suspect In Burning Body Case Richmond / Shootings: A turf/gang war appears to have reignited in Richmond with two more consecutive shootings Sunday night that left two dead and two injured. [CBS] Richmond / Drug Bust: After a traffic
SF News Video Shows Graphic Scene Moments After SFPD-Involved Bayview Shooting Death With shouts of "fuck the police" filling the background, the following (very graphic) video shows SFPD officers just moments after they shot and killed armed 19-year-old Kenneth Harding on Saturday. You can see
SF News SFist Blotter: Burning Body in Rockridge, Water Rescue In Marin, Murder in E. Palo Alto Rockridge / Burning Body: A burning female body was dumped in the quiet, wealthy Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland around 4:40 a.m. this morning at the intersection of Ivanhoe and Chabot Streets, and
SF News Hayes Valley Murder Victim Identified The Chronicle reports that the 20-year-old man shot and killed in Hayes Valley on Monday has been identified as Sean Wilson. Officers responded to a shooting at Webster and Hayes in San Francisco
