SF News SFist Blotter: Shootings in the Mission, Counterfeit Money on Fillmore Mission / Multiple Shootings: The Monday night shooting we mentioned yesterday outside Hog & Rocks critically wounded 22-year-old Gaspar Puch-tzek, a line cook at the restaurant. The shooter is suspected to be a Norteño
SF News Was Oakland 3-Year-Old Carlos Nava Killed Because of the State's Penchant for Plea Bargaining? You may have heard that California's prisons are quite crowded. Well, now some folks are sounding alarm bells around last week's slaying of Carlos Nava, the three-year-old who was tragically shot in East
SF News Missing Nursing Student In Hayward Now Presumed Dead We haven't been following the case of missing nursing student Michelle Le -- who disappeared May 27 from Kaiser Hospital in Hayward -- too closely, perhaps optimistic that she'd turn up. But police
SF News Oakland Block Party/Sideshow Leaves Two Dead A block party in East Oakland Sunday night, which turned into a sideshow with cars doing donuts, etc., turned deadly when an unknown assailant (or multiple assailants) began shooting into the crowd, critically
SF News Suspected Serial Killer Nabbed, Held in Marin for CA Murders, and Possibly Connected to Alphabet Murders in NY Joseph Naso, age 77, was arrested earlier this week for a probation violation in South Lake Tahoe and transferred to Marin County Jail where he's suspected in the killings of four northern California
SF News Gary Scott Holland Was Probably Violating His Parole While Staying at North Beach Residence Hotel Accused killer Gary Scott Holland, who plead not guilty Friday to the brutal murder of Kathleen Horan in her Russian Hill apartment, had been calling the Castro Hotel on Vallejo Street home since
SF News 41-Year-Old Cold Case Solved Near Monterey A Texas man has been arrested in connection with the 1969 murder of Chris Lopes, a case which remained unsolved until now. The death of the 19-year-old basketball star and Monterey Peninsula College
SF News Fairfield Woman Kills Twin Girls, Botches Suicide A 28-year-old Fairfield woman stabbed her twin three-year-old girls to death last night and then attempted both to kill herself and set fire to her apartment. Firefighters discovered the gruesome scene, with the
SF News Third Suspect Charged In Bayview Murder; Drama Erupts at Courthouse After Arraignment SFist's favorite crime reporter Mike Aldax over at the Examiner brings us an update today on the case of last month's home invasion and slaying of Dennis Wayne Dixon. In the earlier Chron
SF News Hillsborough Murder Suspect to Get Psychiatric Evaluation You may recall the June murder that occurred in deliriously wealthy peninsula enclave of Hillsborough, the first homocide to occur there in six years. Attorneys for the defense of accused murderer Bradley Kleiman,
SF News Girlfriend of Murder Suspect Efren Valdemoro Spoke to Boss During Car Chase The girlfriend of now deceased suspected killer Efren Valdemoro spoke to her boss at the nail salon where she worked, on her cell phone, from the car she was in with Valdemoro during
SF News Police Discover Two Dead Women, Bomb Materials in Vallejo Home It's been a bizarre and bloody few days in the North and East Bays, with five people dead and one still missing in a violent string of events culminating in a police showdown
SF News SFist Blotter: Sad and Angry Edition North Oakland / Murder: A woman jealous that her crack-addicted, homeless boyfriend was seeing another woman stabbed him in the neck on August 19, while the two sat in a parked car at San
SF News Crime Lab Clusterfu*k Results In Noe Valley Murderer Rampage Via Noe Valley SF and the Chron we hear tell of the case of the unsolved murder Charles McAleer-Bonilla outside his home at 28th and Sanchez on April 8, which now appears solved
SF News Melissa Huckaby to Be Sentenced This Morning Melissa Huckaby, the 29-year-old Tracy woman who you may recall kidnapped and murdered that 8-year-old girl last year, will appear in court this a.m. and is expected to receive a life sentence
SF News Crime Declined Overall in '09, Despite Crap Economy Bucking conventional wisdom about how crime rises as incomes fall and unemployment rises, the FBI's latest report on nationwide crime statistics for 2009 shows an overall decline in both violent and non-violent crime.
