Humans Are Wired To Kill Other Humans According To Genetic Evolution Study
Evolution and genetics seem to have baked a certain amount of murder into humans as a species. On average, modern humans now kill each other on a rate of 13 in 1000
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Evolution and genetics seem to have baked a certain amount of murder into humans as a species. On average, modern humans now kill each other on a rate of 13 in 1000
Police arrested a 30-year-old man Saturday, after investigators had been looking for him in connection with a fatal stabbing that occurred last week in Fairfield.
An Oakland man has been sentenced to death for two murders, including the death of a young girl during a sleepover at her friend's house.
Gruesome new details were revealed about two drifters charged in the murders of a woman in San Francisco and a man in Marin County in 2015.
The mother of an infant found dead near the Sacramento River has been convicted of murder in the death of her son.
Two men accused of killing an anti-crime activist and stealing her phone in 2013 were found guilty of murder Thursday by an Alameda County Superior Court jury.
A 49-year-old Oakland man was found guilty of first-degree murder for the second time Wednesday for shooting a neighbor in the neck to steal a quarter-pound of marijuana, prosecutors said.
Sahmanntha Rundstrom, also known as "Serenity,"pleaded not guilty to murder in the case of a homeless man tortured and killed in Golden Gate Park.
A suspect in the killing of a Richmond woman in San Francisco in May was arrested on Wednesday in the city's Bayview District, police said Thursday.
A San Jose father appeared in court on a murder charge Friday day for the death of his 6-week-old baby daughter, who died Friday morning from injuries he allegedly inflicted on her.
A man wanted in the murder of an East Palo man was arrested early Friday after SWAT officers surrounded a San Jose apartment complex.
A Santa Clara County judge denied a change or venue motion Thursday in the murder trial of the man accused of killing Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar.
Police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects connected to a young woman's homicide earlier this month in Richmond.
Officers found the bodies of the man and his mother inside a bedroom with gunshot wounds to the head.
Shandon Stanley got 150 years to life in prison for a brutal attack on his ex-girlfriend. She lost part of her brain, and skull and her right eye.
A jury returned the verdict Tuesday against gang members Jacob Lynch and Clemente Salas after a 10-week trial.
The preliminary hearing for 7 people charged with shooting murder of a West Oakland mother as she tried to help her children to safety last year was delayed.
A four-time convicted felon was charged Monday with the attempted murder of a police officer for allegedly shooting at a police sergeant in Oakland last month.
A man was found murdered Saturday night in Oakland near the Oakland Zoo, police said Sunday.
Prosecutors say they will not retry a man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy.
Days before he viciously attacked a Los Angeles man at the a Santa Rosa movie theater, a 23-year-old man allegedly stole a large chef's knife from Macy's and fatally stabbed another man 50 times.
A parole panel decided that Steven Burns should remain in state prison for killing Catina Rose Salarno in 1979.
Alameda County sheriff's deputies have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a man stopped at an intersection in Cherryland Wednesday afternoon, a sheriff's spokesman said.
A 25-year-old man was sentenced Friday for a 2012 murder of a wealthy man during a home invasion robbery at the victim's Monte Sereno estate.
It doesn't happen very often, but homicides in the Bay Area's three largest cities are at about the same level, and while that's good news for Oakland and San Francisco, it's bad news for San Jose.
