Remembering The Jacka: Local Venues And Musicians Pay Their Respects
Last night, Bay Area rapper The Jacka was killed by a gunshot in Oakland.
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Last night, Bay Area rapper The Jacka was killed by a gunshot in Oakland.
San Francisco Police are investigating whether a missing Bay Area man is the victim whose dismembered remains were found inside a suitcase last week.
37-year-old Dominic Newton, who went by the stage name "The Jacka," was shot by an unidentified gunman.
A 20-year-old Hayward man was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and arson for the strangulation death of a Castro Valley woman whose home was also set on fire.
Fremont police have ruled the death of a 24-year-old Newark man early Sunday morning a homicide, police said.
Homicide charges were dropped Tuesday by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office against a teenage boy who had been accused of fatally stabbing a 14-year-old boy in the city's Mission District last September.
An Oakland teenager charged with the killing of a woman told investigators he and a friend killed her because she wouldn't leave the house so they could rob it.
A murder victim's family is desperate to find the killers who left a wife without her husband and two children without their father.
A man died trying to protect his mother from robbers in San Francisco.
A man, who was serving prison time in Oregon, has been transferred to San Mateo County where prosecutors have charged him with two of the "Gypsy Hill" killings that happened in the 1970s.
Police detained a possible homicide suspect in the area of Buena Vista Elementary School, canceling the lockdown of two schools.
As mourners gathered Monday to remember four men fatally shot in San Francisco's Hayes Valley last week, someone posted racially-insensitive notes on people's cars disparaging the victims.
A man with an extensive criminal history was sentenced to 26 years to life in state prison for fatally stabbing a 14-year-old high school classmate in Pleasanton more than 30 years ago.
A judge Tuesday reluctantly granted a motion by a 20-year-old Hayward man to be allowed to represent himself in a case in which he and another man are accused of murder for the strangulation death of a Castro Valley woman whose home was also set on fire.
A convicted felon has been charged with beating a man to death with a metal pipe near his East Oakland home last month, prosecutors said.
23-year-old Daron Raynaldo was shot multiple times on the afternoon of November 27.
Lorrain Taylor smiled a toothy grin and was warmly welcomed by customers and employees as she entered a popular barbecue restaurant just off Oakland's waterfront for a lunch meeting last week.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested in connection with a shooting that killed one person and injured two others outside a Pittsburg home on Sunday night, a police captain said Monday.
The ex-wife of the gunman who held people hostage in a Sydney, Australia restaurant for 16 hours this week sought refuge in the Bay Area from her abusive ex-husband before she was killed, the woman's relatives told KPIX 5.
San Quentin State Prison death row inmate Michael Lee Elliot died Monday at a hospital, a prison spokesman said Tuesday.
Police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the murder of a longtime Northern California man who worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Friends of a man killed Monday in Duboce Park held a vigil within hours of his murder and want San Francisco police to do more in the area that has seen an increase in violent crime.
Investigators are looking for a group of "cowards" who attacked and beat a sleeping homeless man to death in San Francisco's Financial District early Monday morning, a police spokesman said.
A 34-year-old man who has a long criminal history, including convictions for animal abuse and the brutal beating of an elderly woman, has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a teenage boy near San Leandro last week, according to Alameda County authorities.
An 80-year-old man accused of murdering his wife in their Los Gatos home last month told his son he stabbed her to end her pain from recent surgery and then tried to kill himself, according to a police detective.
