Subject: Murder and Homicide

• Is San Francisco Seeing a Spike in Firearm Clumsiness?

  July 11, 2007

• Oakland Black Muslim and Chauncey Context : Links

  August 3, 2007

• SF Crime Cameras: 0, Criminals: 54 68

  August 13, 2007

• America, The Violent: Guns End More and More Spats

  August 22, 2007

• SFPD Dedicates New Resources to Cold Cases

  September 12, 2007

• San Francisco Crime Blog: Crime And Depravity Never Looked So Grim

  November 23, 2007

• Murder Most Foul: Counting San Francisco's Annual Homicides

  December 18, 2007

• A Petition: Cry for Justice: The Murder of Hugues de la Plaza

  February 15, 2008

• Man Convicted of Killing Fetus, Fetus Holder

  February 18, 2008

• San Francisco Crime Blog: Now With Color-Coded Murder Map

  April 10, 2008

• Homicide Update: 2008 Bigger Than 2007 So Far

  May 12, 2008

• A Murder Most Foul: Winston Coleman, Gunned Down In Bayview, Is City's 19th Homicide

  View Larger Map The San Francisco Police Department has told the media that arrests have been made in the murder of 51-year-old Winston Coleman, who was shot dead on Third Street and Galvez Avenue in the wee hours Sunday morning. Coleman is the 19th homicide victim in San Francisco this year; the last was Levit Chavez, who was stabbed to death May 24 in his Bayview District home, allegedly by his adult son. At this time, it is unclear what Coleman was doing out on the streets of Bayview at 1:55

  June 1, 2009

• San Francisco Police Department Can't Stop Homicides

  November 6, 2008

• Shoot First: Mehserle Likely Only Bay Area Cop Ever Charged With Murder for On-Duty Killing

  Just like Johannes Mehserle, we can't give you a straight answer -- but the former BART police officer appears to be the first Bay Area cop to ever find himself charged with murder following a job-related shooting. Jim Chanin, a veteran Berkeley attorney who has prosecuted more than 20 police shooting incidents and is currently handling two in Oakland, couldn't recall a similar instance. The closest he could come was a policeman last year convicted of murder in Ohio -- but that man killed his pr

  January 14, 2009

• S.F. Police Union President: 'I Would Bet My Kids' Lives' Oscar Grant Shooting an Accident

  If Gary Delagnes had been the cop working next to Johannes Mehserle when the now-infamous ex-BART policeman shot Oscar Grant, he knows what he would have said: "What the fuck did you just do?"The 30-year cop and president of the San Francisco Police Officer Association said that watching the much-traveled Internet videos of Grant's shooting death is especially cringe-worthy for those in the police community, who are baffled by their fellow officer's behavior. "You watch the chain of events and i

  January 14, 2009

• Mission Possible? SFPD Nails 100 Percent of Homicide Suspects in 2009

  Maybe the SFPD ate their Wheaties. Maybe they made a New Year's resolution. But you know that bit about the San Francisco Police Department having one of the worst arrest rates of homicide suspects in the United States? It appears that it's a new day, folks (in the first 16 days of 2009, at least).With an arrest of a laughing, incoherent Peter Fong after he allegedly slit the throat of a sushi restaurant owner on January 7, followed by the Wednesday arrest of Tommy Thomas -- who allegedly stabbe

  January 16, 2009

• Perfect Homicide Arrest Rate Just Too Good to Last

  Reflecting on the end of the streak... Last week we wrote about a statistic too beautiful to survive: The San Francisco Police Department was boasting a 100 percent arrest rate for homicide cases in 2009. Well, the 21-day hot streak seems to be over (at least for now) after 23-year-old Leo Jia Jian Yu was murdered in the Western Addition this morning. There apparently was no 300-pound man to sit on the suspect till the cops arrived, nor surveillance video footage that allowed for a quick captu

  January 22, 2009

• With Egg Still Dripping from SFPD's Faces in L'Affaire de la Plaza, S.F. Declares Other Suspicious Stabbing Death 'Accidental'

  John 'Daniel' Schirra"Sometime past midnight on Labor Day of [2007], 22-year-old John "Daniel" Schirra was running nude along an Ingleside District street, yelling for help. He was in the grips of a bad acid trip, and had either just been stabbed or was about to be. He tried to stop two cars and rang a random doorbell at one of the neighborhood's modest homes. Someone called the police to report that a naked young man, who may have been bloody, was running in the street. No one stopped to help."

  February 3, 2009

• Survey Says: S.F. Teens Give Birth at Half State Rate -- But are Shot Dead at Twice State Rate

  If only they could teach San Francisco students to dodge bulletsA yearlong survey of San Francisco's students has revealed that the city's youth is right on par with the state average -- but not in the manner you'd guess. Our teenagers give birth at only half the frequency of their peers throughout California. Yet they also are murdered at twice the state clip. So everything evens out, right? "That's a morbid way of looking at it, but that's exactly what the data is telling us," acknowledges Mar

  February 4, 2009

• San Francisco Anti-Poster Crank Compromises Homicide Investigations

  This may be the only time you see this poster due to Mr. Zooey, the San Francisco poster vigilanteJust in case the police didn't have enough problems solving homicides, here's another one: A crank is tearing down posters around Golden Gate Park that offer rewards for information leading to the arrest of suspects, complaining that the signs "visually pollute and degrade our neighborhood." Christine Evans, the mother of Brandon Lee Evans, who was shot to death while attending a party in Golden Gat

  March 13, 2009

• S.F. Attorney Charged With Capital Murder in Palm Springs Fraud Case

  David Replogle, a San Francisco attorney famed for winning a $7 million sex abuse settlement from prominent local stockbroker Thomas White, has been charged with murder in connection with an unrelated Palm Springs fraud case, according to new charges filed in Riverside County court. Replogle has been charged with murder while committing a robbery, and murder carried out for financial gain, as well as fraud, embezzlement, and damage to property of over $1 million. If convicted of murder under the

  March 19, 2009

• Alleged SF Con Man Possessed By Supernatural Evil, Attorney Claims

  Lawyers say the darndest things... Kaushal Niroula, 27, the alleged ringleader of a group of purported San Francisco con men facing capital murder charges in Palm Springs isn't merely a criminal, says a Hawaii attorney representing a woman claiming to be one of Niroula's victims. Rather, Niroula is an earthly vessel for supernatural forces of evil, said Stephen Shaw, who is representing Megumi Hisamatsu, a Japanese woman who has claimed in a San Francisco federal lawsuit that Niroula

  March 24, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  November 19, 2008

• Stiffed

  Amidst all the murders in San Francisco, some suspicious deaths are hidden in a secret burial ground of bureaucracy.

  September 10, 2008

• Snitch

  May 21, 2008

• Who Killed Hugues de la Plaza?

  His parents are so frustrated with seeking the answer that they want to bring investigators from France into the case

  July 18, 2007

• Earl’s Last Laugh

  Exiled in retirement after Fajitagate, ex–Police Chief Earl Sanders has re-emerged with a fresh account of the infamous Zebra murders. And his critics are on the warpath.

  February 21, 2007

• Bad Blood

  Too many shootings in the city have this in common: escalating anger over an old grudge soon leads to murder. But did a 2-year-old boy have to die?

  December 13, 2006

• Murderers at Large

  The death of a prominent businessman is just one more murder that goes unsolved

  December 6, 2006

• Misc. Reviews

  If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: Mack Minister on America's Most Wanted.

  March 22, 2006

• It Was Comic

  "There's a certain percentage of people who freak out when they find out who I am."

  February 15, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  Week of Wednesday, January 25, 2006

  January 25, 2006

• Let It Bleed

  Prosecutors' reluctance to charge murder suspects in S.F. leaves alleged killers on the street, flush with bravado

  January 18, 2006

• No. 1 With a Bullitt

  San Francisco's murder rate is at its highest level in a decade. Whose fault is that?

  January 4, 2006

• Trial by Liar

  The snitches mumbled, stumbled, equivocated, and perjured themselves The jury found Bernard Temple -- the man prosecutors believed to be a bloodthirsty assassin for drug dealers -- not guilty of murder.

  January 14, 1998

• Will the Soul-Jacker Go Free?

  State prosecutions against alleged gang assassin appear to disintegrate

  May 21, 1997

• Portrait of the Soul-Jacker

  Police call Bernard Temple the meanest hit man ever to roam the gang-infested streets of Bayview-Hunters Point. Temple calls himself a soul-jacker -- someone who kills to steal the spiritual power of his victims.

  March 26, 1997

• A Murder Most Foul: View the Scene of San Francisco's Latest Homicide

  Click here for a larger map.After weeks of quiet times, San Francisco's latest homicides have come in bunches. On Saturday morning, a 23-year-old Richmond man named James Jamonte Turner was shot to death at around 2 a.m. at Third and Folsom (above); three other men were seen fleeing the scene on foot. That murder came just one day after Bayview's 21-year-old Norris Bennett was gunned down at around 4:40 p.m. in the vicinity of Griffith and Navy Streets (where the good folks from Google Street Vi

  April 20, 2009

• C.R.U.S.H. (Part I)

  Five months ago, two black homicide detectives got fed up with the Police Department's inaction on black-on-black murders. Thus was born the Crime Response Unit to Stop Homicide (CRUSH): six cops with the grit and guile to tackle the toughest cases in the

  November 22, 1995

• Samples

  March 15, 1995

• SFPD: Dead Man Discovered In Kezar Stadium Parking Lot 'Definitely a Homicide'

  View Larger MapThe unidentified man police discovered at around 2:30 this morning is "definitely a homicide" according to San Francisco Police Department spokeswoman Sergeant Lyn Tomioka -- making the man the city's 21st homicide victim of the year. The victim -- whose identity, age, race, and other information has not yet been released -- died of multiple stab wounds. Tomioka confirmed that the wounds were not of a nature that they could have been self-inflicted. The man, discovered in the wes

  June 17, 2009

• Guardian's Tim Redmond Didn't Let the Facts Get In the Way of His Story

  I'm not sure how I wound up on the listserv of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's Web news (I certainly didn't sign up), but it comes every day  -- and occasionally I read it. Last week, I was particularly drawn to a news item by editor Tim Redmond entitled, Why Homicides Are Down (Hint: It's Not All The Police). Redmond begins his editorial item claiming to have been fascinated by the idea that homicide numbers in San Francisco have decreased while what he calls "near-fatal" s

  June 24, 2009

• A Murder Most Foul: Harris Fullbright, Shot Dead in Tenderloin, Is City's 23rd Homicide

  View Larger Map A 30-year-old man named Harris Fullbright was shot dead early Saturday morning and two other gunshot victims were hospitalized in a 3 a.m. incident at Ellis and Jones Streets. Fulbright apparently had been in a scuffle just outside of the crime-magnet nightclub Pink Diamonds. Fullbright is the 23rd homicide victim in the city this year and the first since Douglas Johnson was stabbed to death on June 22 in Bayview.

  June 28, 2009

• Delvon Fields, Shot Dead in Bayview, Is City's 26th Homicide

  View Larger MapDelvon Fields, a 28-year-old San Francisco man, was shot dead yesterday evening at Third and McKinnon Streets in Bayview. No arrests have yet been made in San Francisco's 26th homicide of the year. Prior to Fields' killing, the city's most recent murder was on Friday, July 10, when 17-year-old Gilette Xavier was killed in the Western Addition. Charles Eason, meanwhile, was shot multiple times in a car in Potrero Hill on July 9, but that case has not yet been ruled a homicide by th

  July 17, 2009

• A Murder Most Foul: Ena Margoth Canales Is City's 32nd Homicide Victim

  View Larger Map Last night, San Francisco police discovered the body of 32-year-old San Franciscan Ena Margoth Canales in a Pontiac Aztek near the 800 block of Terry Francois Blvd. TMoments ago, police spokesman Sgt. Wilfred Williams told SF Weekly her death is being investigated as a homicide. Williams would only say that the car was registered to Canales, while the medical examiner would only release the victim's name, age, and city of residence. Canales' death marks

  August 6, 2009

• A Murder Most Foul: Man Shot Dead In Double Rock Projects During Apparent Robbery; City's 38th Homicide

  View Larger Map A victim of an apparent robbery was gunned down in the Double Rock projects in Hunters Point in the pre-dawn hours this morning, marking the city's 38th homicide of the year. The Medical Examiner's office would not release the name of the victim to SF Weekly, citing the need to notify family. Police have released a broad description of the suspected killer: He is between 20 and 25 years old, roughly 6 feet tall, and weighing between 180 and 200 pounds. This is the first homicide

  October 4, 2009

• A Murder Most Foul: Eric Buschman, Excelsior District Stabbing Victim, Is City's 39th Homicide

  View Larger Map The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office confirmed that the man stabbed to death in the wee hours in the 300 block of Athens Street is Eric Buschman. The 49-year-old  San Franciscan is the city's 39th homicide victim of the year, and the first person murdered in San Francisco since Baton Rouge, La., tourist Michael Bailey was shot to death in the Double Rock projects on Oct. 4.The circumstances surrounding Buschman's death are unclear and it is unknown at this time if an

  October 13, 2009

• New DNA Evidence in Old Homicide Case Points to the 'Night Stalker'

  Anna McCarthyDid you hang around the 'Loin in 1984? Does this face ring a bell?​On April 10, 1984, San Francisco police found 9-year-old Mei Leung's dead body in the basement area of the residential hotel at 765 O'Farrell Street where she lived with her family. Her 8-year-old brother was the last one to see her alive -- they had walked home from a friend's house together just before the slaying. Police never found her killer. Now, two-and-a-half decades later, the SFPD say they have new DNA ev

  October 22, 2009

• A Murder Most Foul: Halloween Homicide Victim Malik Fennedy Is City's 40th

  View Larger MapThe man shot dead close to Griffith Street and Navy Road in Bayview last night was Malik Fennedy, a 22-year-old San Franciscan. Fennedy is the city's 40th homicide victim of the year, and the first since Excelsior resident Eric Buschman was stabbed to death in front of his home on Oct. 12 in what appears to be a random attack, allegedly undertaken by a mentally ill man.

  November 1, 2009

• Once a joke, SFPD is actually solving murders these days

  November 4, 2009