SF News Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams Abruptly Resigns With No Explanation Despite (or because of?) a drop in police shootings on his watch, the Vallejo Police Officers Association wanted Chief Shawny Williams out. On Friday, they got their wish when he suddenly resigned.
SF News Vallejo Cop Who Fatally Shot Sean Monterrosa In 2020 Is Finally Fired A Vallejo police detective who fired the gun that killed 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa during civil unrest at a Walgreens in June 2020 has been fired following the conclusion of a third-party investigation into the incident.
SF News Vallejo High Football Coach Shot Trying to Break Up Fight Between Students and Adults The Vallejo High School football team’s defensive coordinator Joe Pastrana took a bullet Tuesday afternoon when off-campus adults fired into a crowd of Vallejo students, but his injuries are not life-threatening and he remains in stable condition.
SF Politics Whack Vallejo City Council Meeting Goes Off Rails, Mayor Threatens to Arrest Councilmember What started as a discussion about a new Vallejo police station turned into free-for-all with one public commenter being physically hauled out by police, then threats from the mayor to do the same to a councilmember, who in turn speculated about certain parts of the mayor's anatomy.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vallejo Mayor Weighs In on Strange Death The mayor of Vallejo has made a public statement about a death that he says should not have been ruled a suicide, Newsom's CARE Court idea probably needs a lot more funding, and Joe Rogan has chimed in about the South Bay MMA vigilante case.
SF News Vallejo PD Moves to Fire Officer Who Shot and Killed Sean Monterrosa Detective Jarrett Tonn was placed on paid leave a year after the 2020 shooting of SF resident Sean Monterrosa, and in the wake of new findings, the chief of police is looking to fire him.
SF News Matthew Muller, Man Charged In Bizarre 2015 'Gone Girl' Kidnapping and Rape, Now In State Mental Hospital It's been several years since we had an update on Matthew Daniel Muller, the Harvard-educated, mentally ill man who pleaded guilty in a federal case to kidnapping a Vallejo woman, Denise Huskins, in a case that received national attention in 2015.
SF News Vallejo Police Officers Association Claims Crisis Over ‘Unprecedented Rate’ of Officers Quitting The union for one of the Bay Area’s most scandal-plagued police forces says the sky is falling over officer attrition rates, conveniently ignoring that department’s own massive, self-inflicted reputational damage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive Brawl Breaks Out At Vallejo Theme Park Around 100 juveniles were involved in a huge brawl at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on Saturday, the DEA is warning about a spike in fentanyl-laced pills, and health officials say they did not see many COVID cases linked to the BottleRock festival.
Business & Tech Vallejo Woman Sues Lyft Over Alleged Kidnapping By Driver With Meth Pipe A Vallejo woman has filed suit against Lyft over an April 2019 ride gone wrong in which she had to climb out of the car's window to escape a creepy driver.
SF News Special Prosecutor Decides No Charges Will Be Filed Against Vallejo Officers Who Fatally Shot Willie McCoy After the Solano County District Attorney recused herself last year, a special prosecutor was assigned to review the February 2019 officer-involved shooting case in Vallejo that left 20-year-old rapper Willie McCoy dead following 55 rounds that were shot into his car.
SF Politics Vallejo Mayoral Candidate Hakeem Brown Doubles Down In Denial of Domestic Violence Allegations Allegations are that Brown, now 45, was far from just a troubled young man who got caught up with the law, as he has publicly portrayed himself.
SF News Vallejo Declares State of Emergency Over Pandemic Crime Wave and Police Misconduct Vallejo City Council thinks gangs are engaged in a turf war, but their emergency declaration sets off a turf war between the city’s police and its police officer’s association.
SF News Vallejo Approves Largest-Ever Settlement for a Police Shooting, $5.7 Million, for the Family of Ronell Foster A Vallejo Police officer is on paid administrative leave after killing two people in less than a year, as police misconduct settlements are piling up in Vallejo.
SF News Vallejo Seeks Change Of Venue And Gag Order For Civil Rights Case In Sean Monterrosa Shooting The city attorney in Vallejo is already seeking a change of venue and a gag order on the attorneys and plaintiffs involved in the civil rights lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court pertaining to the police shooting of Sean Monterrosa.
SF News Vallejo PD Moves To Fire Officer In 2019 Shooting As Family of Sean Monterrosa Sues For Wrongful Death In a federal court filing today, the Monterrosas and their attorneys say that the June 2 shooting was "brutal, malicious, and done without just provocation or cause."
SF News Vallejo Man Suspected Of Kidnapping a Woman Crashes Maserati After Police Chase A Vallejo man was arrested early Monday following an incident involving a suspected kidnapping and a chase that ended with him smashing up a very expensive sports car.
SF News Vallejo Police Chief Investigating Claim That Officers Bent Badges To Celebrate Fatal Shootings Once again we get a shockingly disgusting report about the Vallejo PD, and once again there will be an "investigation" into whether the department's officers are just awful human beings.
SF News Destruction Of Evidence In Vallejo Police Killing Of Sean Monterrosa Prompts Calls for FBI, State AG To Investigate The Vallejo Police Department continues to prove that it is incapable of inspiring public trust or investigating the actions of its own officers, and a revelation came recently that a key piece of evidence in the shooting of Sean Monterrosa has already been destroyed.
SF News Daughter Allegedly Stabs Mother and Brother In Vallejo, Mother Dies A New Orleans woman and her mother, visiting family in Vallejo, were involved in an altercation Sunday morning that landed the woman's brother in the hospital, and left the mother dead.
SF News Sean Monterrosa’s Family Demands More Body Cam Footage From Police Shooting The Vallejo Police Department has now changed its story over the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Sean Monterossa, and famed civil rights attorney John Burris wants answers.
SF News Body Cam Footage Shows Vallejo Officer Shoot Sean Monterrosa Through Windshield, Then Ask If He Was Armed The body-worn camera footage has been released by the Vallejo PD in the June 2 shooting. And it shows an officer in the backseat of a police vehicle aim a high-powered rifle and fire five rounds through the front windshield before the vehicle had even come to a stop.
SF News DA Recuses Herself In Two Fatal Police Shooting In Vallejo, Presses Attorney General To Step In Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams has officially recused herself from the investigations into a pair of officer-involved shootings in Vallejo, including the June 2 shooting of San Francisco resident Sean Monterrossa.
SF News Family of Man Killed By Vallejo Officer: 'They Executed Him' 22-year-old Sean Monterrosa, the San Francisco man who was fatally shot Monday night by a Vallejo police officer who believed he was carrying a handgun — which turned out to be a hammer — was the son of a longtime employee at Anchor Oyster Bar in the Castro. And his family is speaking out.
SF News 22-Year-Old Latinx Man Was Kneeling With No Weapon In His Hand When He Was Fatally Shot By Vallejo PD The case of the police shooting of 22-year-old San Francisco man Sean Monterrosa is certain to reverberate around the Bay Area in the coming days and months, as demonstrations continue and tensions remain high over police killings nationwide.
