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Here’s a round-up of Monday news reports from around the Bay provided by the Bay City News bureau.
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Two men were stabbed in front of a nightclub in San Francisco’s
South of Market district early Sunday morning, officials said.
Shortly after 12:30 a.m., all units at the San Francisco Police
Department’s Southern Station responded to Temple nightclub, at 540 Howard
St., on report of an altercation, San Francisco police Officer Frost said.
Firefighters were also dispatched for medical aid, a San Francisco
fire lieutenant said.
Officers on the scene found two Hispanic men suffering from
multiple stab wounds, a San Francisco police dispatcher said.
The two were transported to San Francisco General Hospital, a fire
lieutenant said. The extent of their injuries remains unknown.
Police said that the three suspects — identified as two
approximately 25-year-old Asian men along with an unknown suspect – remain at
large.
Police declined to offer further information about the incident,
but said that it is not considered to be gang related.
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In his final act as mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom Sunday
swore in police Chief George Gascon as the new district attorney in a special
ceremony held on the mayor’s balcony inside City Hall.
Newsom, who will take his place as lieutenant governor today,
admitted that the appointment came at “extraordinarily quick” during his
search for a candidate to replace Kamala Harris, who is now attorney general
of California.
As he carefully narrowed down the candidates to about six people,
Newsom sought counsel from Gascon on Saturday.
But as Newsom listened to Gascon give his recommendations for the
district attorney seat, the outgoing mayor realized his search was over.
Gascon, who didn’t previously know he was being considered, had to
make up his mind quickly when Newsom made the offer.
Just before 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Gascon was sworn in as district
attorney.
Gascon said he could offer a worthwhile perspective to the
district attorney role.
“At the end of the day, it’s about delivering public safety to the
community,” Gascon said.
The new district attorney is already receiving support from city
officials.
“Police Chief George Gascon is a stellar choice for district
attorney of San Francisco,” City Attorney Dennis Herrera said in a statement.
San Francisco police Assistant Chief Jeff Godown will serve as
acting police chief until a permanent chief is selected by the Police
Commission and the interim mayor.
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Bay Area politicians and religious leaders express both sympathy
and hope for healing Sunday after more than 18 people who were injured —
including a Congresswoman from Arizona — and six killed in a shooting at an
event in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday.
At least 18 people were injured and six killed at about 10 a.m.
Saturday, when a 22-year-old man opened fire in a Safeway parking lot at a
political event hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to the Pima
County Sheriff’s Department.
Giffords, who represents Arizona’s Eighth District, is in critical
condition from injuries sustained in the shooting, the sheriff’s department
said.
Among those that died include U.S. District Judge John Roll, 63,
of Tucson, the sheriff’s department said.
Judges of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals said the federal judiciary was in mourning over Roll’s death.
Gov. Jerry Brown said that he was devastated by yesterday’s
events.
“I am deeply saddened to learn of the shooting of Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords and others in Tucson,” Brown said.
During the inaugural meeting of the new San Francisco Board of
Supervisors yesterday, Board President David Chiu requested a moment of
silence for the victims in Arizona.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, called the shooting
“a national tragedy.”
Rep. Jackie Speier, D-San Mateo, said Giffords was “attacked while
engaging in one of the most basic activities of public service.”
Rabbi Michael Lerner, at Beyt Tikkun Synagogue of San Francisco,
said he fears that “more ordinary people are going to be afraid to
participate in the democratic process or come to any public events” after the
incident.
However, the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club is hopeful that
the nation can recover with time, calling for healing by means of unity.
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Police in San Jose said that a man was found shot to death in a
sport utility vehicle Sunday morning, and investigators believe the death is
connected to a shooting that left two men dead in the city on Saturday.
Officers went to the 1000 block of North 12th Street after
receiving a report of a man down inside a vehicle at around 8:40 a.m., San
Jose police Sgt. Ronnie Lopez said.
Arriving officers found a man in his 30s slumped behind the wheel
of an SUV, Lopez said.
The man was declared dead from an apparent gunshot wound.
Investigators believe the killing is related to a fatal shooting
that took place at about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, police said.
Two men were pronounced dead of gunshot wounds at North 13th and
Hedding streets, and a third was taken to a hospital with injuries that could
be life threatening, according to police.
San Jose police will hold a news briefing Sunday afternoon to
discuss the homicides, Lopez said.
The briefing will be held between noon and 12:30 p.m. in a parking
lot at Jordan Middle School, at the corner of N. California Avenue and
Middlefield Road in Palo Alto.
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A teenage boy who was shot and killed on the residential streets
of Oakland on Saturday has been identified as 15-year-old Lovell Hadnot, a
police spokeswoman said Sunday.
Lovell, a high school student from Oakland, was found suffering
from gunshot wounds on the street in the 5800 block of Bancroft Avenue at
about 5:10 p.m., police spokeswoman Holly Joshi said.
Arriving officers pronounced him dead on the scene, police said.
No arrests have been made and police are looking for one male
suspect.
A man killed in an unrelated shooting Saturday night was also
identified as 29-year-old Ishmael Knudson, Joshi said.
Knudson was found suffering from gunshot wounds outside Campbell
Market at 1539 Campbell Street at about 7:30 p.m. He was pronounced dead at
the scene, according to police.
No one has been arrested and police were unable to release suspect
information on Knudson’s shooting.
Knudson’s death marks the fifth homicide of 2011.
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Patrol officers in San Francisco found a man who had been stabbed
in the stomach walking through the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood early
Sunday morning, a spokesman said.
At around 2:30 a.m., officers in the 800 block of Ellis Street
spotted an 18-year-old man staggering and holding his stomach, San Francisco
police Lt. Troy Dangerfield said.
The officers noticed blood on the man and called for medical
assistance, Dangerfield said.
The man appeared to have been stabbed and seriously injured ,
police said, though the victim was allegedly too intoxicated to tell officers
how he was assaulted or by whom.
The victim was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive.
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Four years after a man was shot and killed near a San Francisco
nightclub, a $250,000 reward is being offered in exchange for information
leading to the arrest and prosecution of the shooter. On the night of Jan. 6,
2007, two suspects confronted 20-year-old Alberto Casillas and brandished a
gun near Club Caliente at 13th and Folsom streets, police said.
Hours later, as Casillas and his friends were driving away from
the area at about 2:17 a.m., the suspects fired multiple shots into the
driver’s side, striking Casillas, police said.
Casillas later died at San Francisco General Hospital.
The suspects are described as two black men, both ages 18 to 25 at
the time, one standing 6 feet 4 inches tall and the other was 5 feet 8 inches
tall.
The suspects’ vehicle was reported as a silver sedan with a low
spoiler on the back.
The reward, authorized by the mayor’s office, was set at $10,000 a
few months after the murder and is now set at $250,000.
Police are asking anyone with information about this case to call
(415) 575-4444 or text a tip to TIP411.
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Activists held a sit-in Sunday outside the San Francisco home of
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein to protest the treatment of a man being charged
with disclosing classified information to the website WikiLeaks — and the
group plans to hold a rally and news conference on the Golden Gate Bridge at
noon.
Members of the grassroots peace and social justice movement
organization CODEPINK were stationed outside Feinstein’s Lyon Street home at
9:30 a.m. to protest the “inhumane” treatment of Pfc. Bradley Manning,
according to a CODEPINK release.
Manning is being held at the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va.
CODEPINK also plans to address the continued operation of the
Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
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A teenage man was shot in his driveway while standing at the open
passenger door of a vehicle in Salinas on Wednesday, police said.
Officers responded to the 1200 block of Linwood Drive on the
report of a shooting at about 5 p.m., according to police.
When police arrived at the scene, they found an 18-year-old man
suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
The incident began when the teenager was near an open passenger
door of a vehicle in front of his home, and a man approached him from the
sidewalk, police said.
After words were exchanged, the suspect shot the man several times
in the upper torso, police said.
After the shooting, the suspect fled north on Linwood Drive and
then ran east on Elwood Drive. He got into an early 90s, gray-colored Honda
Civic that was waiting, and fled eastbound on Elwood Drive, according to
police.
The teenager was transported to Natividad Hospital Medical Center
for treatment, and later transported to a Bay Area hospital in a helicopter
for treatment of critical injuries.
Police described the suspect as an 18- to 20-year-old Hispanic
male, wearing a white sweatshirt and white pants at the time of the shooting.
The shooting is being investigated as gang related, police said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the
Salinas Police Department investigations division at (831) 758-7226 or
Detective Joshua Lynd at (831) 758-7123.
Those wishing to remain anonymous can call the Salinas Police
Department anonymous tip line at (831) 775-4222 or (800) 78-CRIME. Anonymous
information can also be sent to the text tip line with the code SPD831 to
847411.
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PG&E crews worked in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood
Sunday morning, where about 348 customers had been without power for more
than eight hours, a spokeswoman said.
The outage, which appears to have been caused by an underground
cable failure, was reported at around 1:10 a.m., PG&E spokeswoman Jana Morris
said.
“It’s likely that the cable has just reached the end of its life,”
Morris said. “We will go in, remove it and replace it with a brand new
cable.”
Utility crews were working to repair and replace the cable and
hoped to have power restored to the neighborhood by 10 a.m.
A separate outage caused by a blown fuse affected 186 customers in
the Western Addition neighborhood since 1 a.m., Morris said.
The fuse, Morris said, was designed to interrupt power to the
circuit when the flow exceeded safe levels.
Power was fully restored to the area by 7 a.m.
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Hillsborough police are investigating a theft that occurred after
the window of a vehicle was smashed on Friday afternoon.
The burglary occurred sometime between 1 p.m. and 2:20 p.m. in the
200 block of Stonehedge Road, according to police.
Apparently a vehicle had its window smashed, and suspects stole a
purse and other contents from inside it, police said.
No arrests have been made and no suspect information was
immediately available.
Anyone who saw something suspicious in that area Friday afternoon
is asked to contact Hillsborough police at (650) 375-7470.
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A woman was robbed at gunpoint in her driveway in Palo Alto early
Saturday morning while removing items from her car, police said.
At approximately 12:24 a.m., officers responded to reports of a
robbery in the 2300 block of St. Francis Drive, where the female victim told
police that she handed over her purse when the suspect pointed a gun at her
and demanded her property.
After the robbery, the suspect ran south on St. Francis Drive
toward Oregon Avenue, police said.
The victim said she noticed a sedan of unknown color with its
motor running that was parked several houses away, although officers could
not confirm that it was involved in the robbery.
Police described the suspect as a tall, black male from 18 to 20
years old, with a medium build and no facial hair. He was wearing a
flat-brimmed baseball cap, a gray hooded sweatshirt and baggy jeans at the
time of the robbery.
An investigation of the robbery is ongoing.
The Palo Alto police are reminding residents to be aware of their
surroundings at all times, especially during the evening. Suspicious activity
should be reported to police as soon as possible.
Anyone with information is encouraged to call police at (650)
329-2413. Those wishing to remain anonymous can leave a voicemail or text the
department at (650) 383-8984 or send an email to paloalto@tipnow.org.
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A San Francisco Indian restaurant has resumed meal service not
more than a day after it was shut down for a carbon monoxide leak that
hospitalized several people, according to the restaurant manager.
Four guests at the neighboring Marriott Marquis fell ill Thursday
night after a water heater in Amber India at 25 Yerba Buena Lane leaked high
amounts of carbon monoxide into the hotel walls, according to the San
Francisco Fire Department.
The problem was tracked to a “strange-looking” pipe connected to
the heater and eventually it was shut down on Friday, but the restaurant
managed to install a temporary heater and began serving customers Saturday
night.
“We couldn’t shut down the restaurant,” Maneesh Rawat, general
manager of the restaurant said.
The replacement heater is operated on electricity only and meant
as a temporary solution, he said.
The broken heater — which uses both electricity and gas — began
malfunctioning near Christmas and wouldn’t warm up water because of what was
believed to be an electrical issue.
The restaurant had work done on the faulty appliance and turned it
back on, which is when the hotel guests became sick.
On the night of the incident, Amber India’s venting system was
leaking carbon monoxide into a shaft between walls in the hotel.
The guests were flight attendants staying in four separate rooms
at the hotel, which is at the intersection of Fourth and Mission streets.
The guests were transported to San Francisco General Hospital and
St. Francis Memorial Hospital, where they were doing well since Friday
morning, hotel spokesman Sam Singer said.
No claims have been filed against the restaurant, Rawat said, but
he expects an investigation into the issue will be ongoing.
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