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Police Chief Michael Meehan said he thinks his officers responded appropriately to the situation that led to the death of 67-year-old business management consultant Peter Cukor outside his home on Feb. 18.
Fairfield police have identified the two victims from Wednesday's double fatal shooting as 24-year-old Vedell Jamar Chew and 18-year-old Bernard Francis Knight
A San Leandro man has been arrested and charged with murder for allegedly killing a man whose body was found in a burning house in unincorporated Hayward in November, Alameda County sheriff's officials said Thursday.
Two men were fatally shot near the Parkway Gardens condominium complex in Fairfield Wednesday afternoon, police said.
Convicted killer Wesley Shermantine has sent another letter from death row to the CBS affiliate in Sacramento, saying there is possibly a third killer.
Officers were called to the home on the 800 block of Nectarine Avenue around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday and found the mother and son inside. They were pronounced dead at the scene.
A man was killed and four others wounded, including two children, in two separate shootings in Oakland Monday night.
Four suspects were charged Monday with three counts of murder and four counts of premeditated attempted murder for a shooting after a tattoo party last October.
A 15-year-old Oakland boy pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of murder for allegedly strangling his adoptive parents.
One person was killed when they were shot in East Oakland early Sunday morning and then run over by the fleeing suspect's car.
A man was found shot to death in East Oakland early Saturday morning, an Oakland police officer said.
San Leandro police have arrested three more suspects who were allegedly involved in an October 2011 triple homicide.
Contra Costa County prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty against a Richmond man charged with fatally shooting a Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll taker and her friend.
Police dispatch tapes show officers didn't immediately respond to a Berkeley man's nonemergency call about an intruder before the homeowner was bludgeoned to death with a ceramic pot.
A 27-year-old woman was killed Wednesday night in Pittsburg in what appears to be a stabbing, a Pittsburg police lieutenant said.
The Hells Angels member accused of killing a fellow member at a San Jose funeral last year was arraigned on Wednesday without entering a plea.
A local rapper has been identified as a suspect in a Valentine's Day murder in Vallejo police were seeking the public's help in finding him.
The Marin County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday morning it will seek the death penalty against accused serial killer Joseph Naso.
CBS has obtained chilling video footage of Loren Herzog, one of two men dubbed the "Speed Freak Killers," after he was arrested in 1999. The jailhouse footage shows Herzog blaming Wesley Shermantinefor the death of Cindy Vanderheiden.
San Jose police have released the identity of a man who was shot and killed during a weekend brawl outside a popular Mexican restaurant.
An Oakland man was sentenced Monday to two consecutive life prison terms plus 100 years for fatally shooting two teenage girls four years ago in what prosecutors said was a bid to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of police.
San Jose Police made an arrest Saturday, in connection to the Hells Angels funeral slaying last October.
A 37-year-old Castro Valley man was sentenced Friday to 26 years to life in state prison for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in what a judge said was a classic case of domestic violence.
Investigators were still following leads Friday into the murder of 25-year-old Pinole resident Rene Garcia in a North Richmond park on Tuesday night.
An elderly man was found dead inside a home in the Oakland Hills Thursday morning and police were treating the case as a possible homicide.
