Richmond’s standout strategy in fight to reduce gun violence
Richmond, 2006: A man is shot in the face at the funeral of a teenager who was gunned down. The City Council is on the verge of declaring a state …
Homicide
Additional details emerge in East Bay murder-suicide
PLEASANTON – New details emerged Friday in an East Bay murder-suicide a day earlier that culminated in an hours-long shutdown of Interstate 580 in San Leandro. The victim was alone …
California mother, daughter found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for deadly butt-lift
A Riverside mother-daughter duo on trial for the death of a Reseda woman who died after they performed a butt-lift on her in October 2019 were found guilty of involuntary …
Book Review: ‘The Hunter’ is a dark and lyrical tale of revenge, friendship and loyalty in collision
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Cal Hooper fled a failing marriage, quit his exhausting job with the Chicago Police Department, and settled down in Ardnakelty, a fictional village …
Patient and 3 staffers charged in another patient’s beating death at mental health facility
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A patient, two psychiatric assistants and a nurse have been indicted on charges stemming from the beating death of another patient at a state-run mental health facility …
Murder or mistake? Previous butt-lift injection death could factor into California jury’s verdict
A Los Angeles jury will soon decide whether a Riverside mother-daughter duo whose botched butt-lift procedure in October 2019 led to the death of Reseda woman bent on enhancing her …
Paramedic convictions in Elijah McClain’s death spur changes for patients in police custody
DENVER — Medical responders across the U.S. are rethinking how they treat people in police custody after a jury last December handed down a rare decision: It convicted two Colorado …
2 men convicted of killing Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay nearly 22 years after rap star’s death
rewrite this content and keep HTML tags NEW YORK — More than 20 years after Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay was brazenly gunned down in his recording studio, a jury …
East Bay slaying leaves teenager dead, detectives launch investigation
ANTIOCH — Police are investigating the death of a Pittsburg teenager who was found fatally shot in Antioch on Saturday. The victim was identified as a 16-year-old teenage male, according …
Bail is set at $4 million for an Ohio woman charged in her 5-year-old foster son’s suffocation death
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A judge Thursday set bail at $4 million for an Ohio woman charged with murder in the suffocation death of her 5-year-old foster son. Pammy Maye, 48, …