Shooting marks Berkeley’s first homicide of the year
Michael Gethers/Staff
A man was shot and killed Monday morning near the intersection of San Pablo Avenue and Delaware Street in what has become the first homicide in Berkeley for 2013. Read More…
Man shot dead in Berkeley’s first homicide of the year
A man was shot dead Monday morning in what is Berkeley’s first homicide of 2013. Read More…
Woman shot dead in South Berkeley
A woman was found dead after suffering a gunshot wound on Derby Street Tuesday evening. Berkeley Police Department officers responded to an initial report of an injury collision around 11:36 p.m. on the 1500 block of Derby Street. Read More…
Reward of $17,000 offered for information about Berkeley homicide
The city of Berkeley is offering $15,000, and the Bay Area Crime Stoppers is offering an additional $2,000, for information leading to the arrest of suspects in Thursday’s homicide in Berkeley. On Thursday, Vallejo resident Devin Whitmere was shot and killed in South Berkeley in the city’s third homicide of 2012. Read More…
Transcript: Peter Cukor’s call to police before he was killed
Following criticism directed at the Berkeley Police Department for its response that night, a transcript has been released of a call that Peter Cukor made to police shortly before he was killed outside his home Feb. 18. The police department has come under fire for not immediately responding to Cukor’s Read More…
Cukor’s family criticizes police response on night of death
The family of a Berkeley resident who was bludgeoned to death outside his home earlier this year is now criticizing the police response the night of the killing. The sons of Peter Cukor, Christopher and Alexander Cukor, spoke to press Friday at the office of their attorney R. Lewis Van Blois to set Read More…
Suspect in Berkeley homicide pleads not guilty
The man charged in the city of Berkeley’s third homicide of the year pleaded not guilty in court Monday. Berkeley resident Randall Alston pleaded not guilty to one charge of felony murder at the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland for the March 29 fatal shooting of 24-year-old Devin Whitmire Read More…
City residents alarmed by rise in number of homicides, shootings
Around this time in 2011, Berkeley saw its first and last homicide of the year. Less than four months into 2012, the city has already seen three homicides as well as multiple nonfatal shootings, alarming residents who live in neighborhoods struck by the violence. The city’s first homicide of 2012 Read More…
Twenty years later, mystery and legacy remain
Twenty years ago this month, a UC Berkeley student was killed in Eshleman Hall. And the crime, which created a legacy of security concern and controversy in the building, still remains unsolved. On Feb. 7, 1992, UC Berkeley junior Grace Asuncion was working with her friends in student offices of Read More…
Spring break news in review
The Daily Californian stopped publishing in print after classes ended for spring break on March 23 and picked up again on April 2. Aggregated below is some of our online coverage of the news that occurred in that time period. Click on the titles to read the full stories and browse Read More…