OAKLAND – Police here appear to be making progress on shootings that happened years ago. In December, prosecutors charged 26-year-old Shaka Fagans with attempted murder for allegedly shooting two men in 2022. Both victims in that case are unindicted suspects in the 2021 killing of Bert Brigham III, a fatal shooting that Oakland police attributed […]
PALO ALTO – A judicial panel found that the attorney for a former Antioch police officer did not lie to a judge when she filed for a mistrial during his criminal trial, but noted her “serious error in judgment” and apparent ignorance of the way federal court works, concluding an investigation that began when she […]
Terril Johnson, a 77-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran, drove six hours from Los Angeles this spring to see his gymnastics granddaughter graduate from San Jose State University, but a lawsuit by his family claims he died in a San Jose hotel, “effectively boiled alive” in a hot shower. “He died the night before the graduation […]