SF News Man Charged In Union Square Shooting Death Of the five San Francisco teens detained in the shooting death of Mechthild Schroer, 50, one has been arrested. Police have booked and charged 18-year-old Phillip Stewart, of San Francisco, with murder. The
SF News SFPD Needs Your Help Solving Murder of Philip Dimartino Police are asking the public for help solving the brutal murder of Philip Dimartino. On August 2, 2010 at 1pm, Mr. Philip Dimartino was found stabbed to death in his apartment on Hermann
SF News Man Found Stabbed to Death Inside Haight Residence Haighteration has word that a 35-year-old man was found dead inside his apartment on the 100 block of Hermann Street, between Buchanan and Webster. The victim, whose name hasn't been released, was found
SF News Man Murdered In Buena Vista Park Buena Vista Park played host to a murder on Tuesday morning. According to SF Appeal, "a man was drinking at the top of Buena Vista Park when another man allegedly stabbed him to
SF News What's Going On Here, Face of Anthony Souza, San Quentin Murderer? New San Quentin inmate Edward John Schaefer -- who was convicted of murder after a bout of drunken driving resulted in the death of a 9-year-old Novato girl -- was stabbed to death
SF News Oakland Police Arrest Two In Connection With Virginia Man's Murder Oakland residents George Hugguins, 24, and Althea Housley, 33, were arrested on Monday and Saturday, respectively. Both are suspected of killing Jinghong Kang on July 18 after robbing the Virgina man of $17.
SF News Leslie Van Houten Has 19th Parole Hearing Today Former Charles Manson 'it' girl and two-time homecoming princess, Leslie Van Houten, has her 19th parole hearing today. The former Manson family member was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life
SF News Two Shot at Vigil for 'Pink Saturday' Victim During a Monday night vigil for Stephen Powell, the Pink Saturday shooting victim, two people were shot. The gunfire was reported around 8 p.m. near the intersection of Third Street and Quesada
SF News Alleged Castro 'Pink Saturday' Shooter ID'd The man who allegedly shot and killed 19-year-old Stephen Powell during Gay Pride's Pink Saturday party has been identified as 20-year-old San Franciscan Ed Perkins. "Police are unsure what, exactly, led Perkins to
SF News SFist Blotter Haight/Assault: Egads, how gruesome. Early Sunday morning around 2:30 a.m.-ish, an assault occurred near the intersection of Waller and Webster. William Valentine, 42, was arrested for attacking someone he
SF News Another Wealthy Peninsula Enclave Hosts Homicide A Woodside man, Pooroushasb "Peter" Parineh, was arrested yesterday in connection with the shooting death of his wife Parima in April, originally believed to be a suicide. Mr. Parineh had reported upon calling
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 Details Revealed In Sandra Cantu Killing "I shouldn't have taken Sandra from you. She did not suffer and I did not sexually molest your daughter," said convicted murdered Melissa Huckaby, who, just this morning, was sentenced to life in
SF News Former USF Student Shot, Killed Outside Emeryville Ikea SFGate reports that Hyman Taylor Jr., 23, of Oakland was shot outside the Emeyrville Ikea on Tuesday a little after 7:30 p.m. Taylor used to play basketball at the University of
SF News Suspect Arrested in Pearla Louis Murder, Body Found in Suitcase Police arrested 47-year-old Lee Bell yesterday in suspicion of murdering Pearla Louis, the 52-year-old woman who was found in a suitcase in the bay last month. Louis' family said she and Bell had
SF News Are Mushrooms to Blame For the Violently Bad Trips Up North? The case of mixed martial arts fighter Jarrod Wyatt who, up in Crescent City, CA, murdered his friend by drilling a hole in his chest and ripping out his heart, makes us wonder:
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 DNA Backlog at SFPD Includes 23 Murders, 86 Rapes The backlog at the SFPD's crime lab includes evidence that could convict murderers in 23 cases, as well as evidence in 86 sexual assaults and 187 burglaries, some dating back to 2005 and
SF News Melissa Huckaby Pleads 'Guilty' Melissa Huckaby, the 28-year-old Tracy woman accused to kidnapping, raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in April 2009, made a surprise decision by pleading guilty to murder. In a crowded Stockton courtroom today,
SF News Murderer Convicted Despite Witnesses Saying They Were Completely Eff'd Up That Night Anyone who thinks SF isn't tough enough on violent crime, listen up: Silas Byers, 44, was convicted of first-degree murder on Tuesday in San Francisco court for the June 2009 slaying of Douglas
SF News BART Fires Another Cop From Oscar Grant Shooting BART purged itself of another cop (tangentially?) involved in the 2009 New Year's Day shooting of Oscar Grant. BART cop Tony Pirone, accused of being an "instigator" in the shooting, was fired this
SF News Berkeley Man Shot, Killed in SF Over in San Francisco's Bayview District, a 20-year-old Berkeley man was shot and killed (a rather common occurrence in said neighborhood) on Saturday night. Stephen Powell was shot, according to BCN (via Oakland
SF News 4 Dead In 2 Days In Oakland Last night at around 10:40 p.m., a 57-year-old was shot and killed during an argument over a woman. An unidentified 57-year-old man has been arrested in connection with his murder. The
SF News Fatal Shooting at Second and Minna Streets After an early morning shooting in the city's SOMA neighborhood, one person is dead and three others hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. The incident, which happened a little before 2:30 a.m. on
