Slain 5-Year-Old Mourned At Oakland Funeral
Mourners overflowed St. Elizabeth Church in Oakland for the funeral of Gabriel Martinez Jr., the five-year-old shot and killed near his parents' taco truck on International Boulevard last week.
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Mourners overflowed St. Elizabeth Church in Oakland for the funeral of Gabriel Martinez Jr., the five-year-old shot and killed near his parents' taco truck on International Boulevard last week.
A judge Friday morning sentenced Antioch woman Shemeeka Davis to life in prison for torturing and abusing her two foster children and for murdering one of them.
Five years after a man was shot and killed outside a San Francisco nightclub, police were asking for help solving the case and Friday will be joining the victim's mother to hand out flyers about the murder.
Police said a 19-year-old Oakland man was shot and killed Wednesday night, making him the city's first homicide of the year.
An optimistic new report from San Francisco police on the overall violent crime rate shows that homicides in the city are at the lowest level since the 1960's.
Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of a gang member accused of murdering a father and his two sons in San Francisco nearly four years ago, a case which sparked intense debate over the city's sanctuary policy toward undocumented juvenile offenders.
A resident of the first block of Ambrose Avenue called authorities at about 9:45 p.m. to report a wounded person there, sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said.
Family and friends gathered Monday night for a memorial for a young boy killed last week in Oakland.
Police Monday identified a woman who was killed with a machete-type weapon Friday in San Jose as 65-year-old Yvonne Marie Kirk.
Police arrested a San Jose woman Saturday in connection with a machete attack that left another San Jose woman dead Friday night.
One woman is dead and another was injured after an apparent attack inside a San Jose home Friday night, police said.
San Jose has seen its highest homicide rate in almost 15 years. With just a few days left in 2011, 40 people have been killed in the Bay Area's largest city this year.
Police efforts to prevent shootings like the triple homicide that shocked South San Francisco last December resulted in 118 gang-related arrests in the city during 2011.
The man accused of masterminding a Los Gatos murder-for-hire plot is set to be sentenced.
Some families who have suffered the ultimate loss have received some unexpected Christmas cheer. The children of murder victims were showered with gifts at a special holiday party Monday in Oakland.
In a bid to move her case closer to trial, prosecutors have obtained a grand jury indictment of Giselle Esteban on charges that she murdered nursing student Michelle Le.
Oakland police are seeking help from the public to identify a woman who died after she was found clinging to rocks in the estuary along Jack London Square on Thursday.
A murder suspect was seen this past week in San Jose after being on the run for almost two months.
Detectives in Antioch are investigating the homicide of a woman found dead in a motel room Friday morning.
A candlelight vigil was held Friday night in honor of two young Oakland boys—Hiram Lawrence Jr. and Carlos Nava—who have been killed in gun violence in the city in recent months.
The victim of a homicide was found in San Francisco's Nob Hill neighborhood Thursday morning, police said Friday.
A teenager was killed and another injured in separate shootings in East Palo Alto on Wednesday, police said.
Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old man in East Palo Alto on Wednesday morning, a police spokeswoman said.
A Hayward man was murdered in unincorporated Walnut Creek on Monday night, and Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies have arrested a suspect in the case, a sheriff's spokesman said Tuesday.
A man who pleaded guilty last month to killing San Francisco publicist Kathleen Horan at her Russian Hill apartment in October 2010 was sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison Monday.
