SF News Two Men Arrested, Including Ex-Boyfriend, In Sunnyvale Killing of Young Mother Arrests have now been made in the January 7 killing of 24-year-old Kembery Chirinos-Flores in Sunnyvale, and one of the suspects is the father of the woman's five-year-old son.
SF News Suspect Arraigned In Tenderloin Homicide Is Claiming Self-Defense The 37-year-old suspect in a February 11 homicide on Turk Street was arraigned Wednesday, and his defense is claiming that he acted in self-defense. The victim, however, was shot in the back and was only armed with pepper spray.
SF News Harrowing Details Emerge of Final Desperate Phone Call to Family Member Before Alameda Quintuple Murder 36-year-old Brenda Natali Morales made a phone call to an uncle just minutes before her husband, Shane Killian, fatally shot her, their two sons, and Morales's parents in a drunken rage on July 10, 2024, prosecutors say.
SF News Concord Man Accused In New Year's Eve Murders of His Parents Dies In Jail A 61-year-old man accused in the December 31 killings of his elderly parents in Concord was found dead in his jail cell Thursday evening.
SF News Trial Delayed In 2024 Double-Murder of Teen Girls In Napa Two young women were gunned down near downtown Napa in April 2024 after they allegedly brought a knife to a fight with another woman, and the legal proceedings against two suspects in the case were just paused.
SF News Victim In Ingleside Home Invasion Homicide Identified as 38-Year-Old Woman Some more information has emerged about the Sunday home-invasion robbery in Ingleside that resulted in a homicide, and the suspect has now been charged with murder.
SF News After Daughter's Crusade For the Truth, an 81-Year-Old Bay Area Man Has Been Arrested for His Wife's 1982 Murder A cold case that has lingered on for over 40 years, in part because it was in the hands of a tiny police department in Foster City that was likely ill equipped to investigate it, may finally be nearing justice for the victim.
SF News Football Coach John Beam Has Died After Being Shot Thursday at Laney College Legendary local football coach and Laney College athletic director John Beam died from his gunshot wounds Friday morning, after being shot Thursday at Laney College, tragically ending his 43 years as an Oakland sports father figure.
Business & Tech Lyft Being Sued In Axe-Murder Case In Which Driver Chauffeured Murderer to the Crime Scene San Francisco-based Lyft is being sued over a 2022 murder case in which a Lyft driver ferried a man carrying an axe to the home of his ex-girlfriend, and a judge has ruled that the case may move forward.
SF News SFPD Marks 19 Years Since Killing of Aubrey Abrakasa, Case Remains Cold It was August 14, 2006 when 17-year-old Aubrey Abrakasa was gunned down in front of a preschool at the corner of Baker and Grove streets in the NoPa neighborhood.
SF News First Juvenile Involved In San Jose Valentine's Day Assault That Led to Murder Gets Two Years The first of five alleged teen gang members who were accused of attacking and killing a 15-year-old boy at San Jose's Santana Row shopping center in February has been sentenced.
SF News Mother Speaks Out After 9-Year-Old Boy Killed By Father In San Jose Park The 9-year-old victim in last week's San Jose stabbing case has been identified and his mother has now put out a statement about the tragic loss of her son, and his father's undiagnosed mental illness.
SF News Ex-Boyfriend of 18-Year-Old Murdered In Morgan Hill Arrested at US-Mexico Border The ex-boyfriend of an 18-year-old recent high school graduate in Morgan Hill who was found dead last week was arrested Sunday as he tried to cross back into the United States from Mexico.
SF News Pleasanton Man Who Turned Himself In For Mother's Murder Says He Got Tired of Her Nagging A Pleasanton man who confessed to stabbing his mother multiple times after turning himself in to police two weeks ago says he did so "quickly" and "humanely," after he had finally had it with her nagging.
SF News Wife of Slain Cal Fire Captain Rebecca Marodi Located and Arrested In Mexico The wife and sole suspect in the murder of a Cal Fire captain in Southern California last month has been taken into custody and will face a murder charge in San Diego County.
SF News Arrests of Alleged 'Zizian' Cult Members Came After Another Dispute With a Landlord The three individuals tied to a cult-like group that has been linked to two Bay Area deaths and four on the East Coast were apparently up to their old tricks in rural Maryland when they were arrested on Sunday.
SF News Possible Cult Leader 'Ziz,' Who Faked Her Own Death and Was Questioned In Pennsylvania Double Murder, Still at Large It feels like there are still shoes to drop in the strange case of the Zizians, whose troubling beliefs and alleged pattern of extreme violence came to light in just the last several days.
SF News Suspect and Possible Cult Member Makes Court Appearance In Vallejo Killing as Further Links Revealed to Other Murders We've only just begun to see the unraveling of the strange case of the Zizians, as we'll call them for now, a purported "death cult" with links to the rationalist movement, whose alleged activities the last two years have led to a total of six deaths to date.
SF News At His First Ever Trial, Teen Killer of Santa Cruz Girl Hopes to Convince Jury He's Not a Danger to the Public 25-year-old Adrian Jerry "AJ" Gonzalez is hoping to be set free despite admitting to the 2015 murder of his 8-year-old neighbor, Maddy Middleton.
SF News After Arrest of Teen Suspect, Details Emerge About Two-Year-Old Murder of 18-Year-Old In SF Warehouse An 18-year-old who was living in the Tenderloin went missing in early January 2023, only to turn up dead a few weeks later in a warehouse basement in the Bayview District. We have not heard anything about the case since then, but an arrest was just made late last month.
SF News SF on Track to See the Lowest Number of Homicides In 64 Years as 2024 Comes to a Close It looks like 2024 will be the year with the fewest murders in San Francisco since all the way back in 1960, as the city is three weeks away from likely recording its lowest homicide rate in 64 years.
SF News Man Arrested In Connection With Healthcare CEO Slaying Spent Time In Bay Area A man whom New York police are describing as a "strong person of interest" in last week's murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been arrested in Pennsylvania and identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione.
SF News Sonoma Sheriff Being Questioned About Case In Which Murder Suspect Was Let Go By Deputies Hours Before Killing On Monday we learned of a brutal murder that occurred in rural Sonoma County, near Petaluma, involving a suspect who was screaming outside a home and trying to force his way inside. Hours earlier, Sonoma County deputies had contact with the man, who was being kicked out of a high-end hotel.
SF News Northern California Couple Charged With Murder of Two-Year-Old Daughter A young Redding couple has been arrested for and charged with the murder of their two-year-old daughter, sometime in October 2023. The daughter died after extensive abuse, investigators say.
SF News Alameda Quintuple Murder Suspect Faces Victims' Family In Court 54-year-old Shane Killian, the father of two small boys who stands accused of killing his sons, his wife, and his wife's parents in a domestic violence rampage in Alameda two weeks ago, made his second court appearance on Monday.
