One year after Fito Celedón’s brutal murder in Berkeley, his family hopes for new information that could lead to an arrest.
Amber Nelson
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Reward grows for information about killers of Chilean man
Adolfo Ignacio Celedon. Photo courtesy of the Celedon family The reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the men who killed Adolfo Ignacio Celedón has increased to $20,000, thanks to a new donation made by the Chilean government. Celedón was killed 10 months ago on Sept. 12, 2010, at the intersection of Adeline […]
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Block party planned on anniversary of Berkeley homicide
Fito, who was killed in Berkeley in September 2010. Six months ago, on Sept. 12, 2010, 35-year-old Adolfo Ignacio Celedón Bravo and his fiancée, Amber Nelson, were walking home from a party when they were ambushed and robbed near Ashby BART. Two assailants shot and killed Celedón. The randomness of the murder shocked the Berkeley community […]
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Police chief hopeful of solving Berkeley murder case
Amber Nelson and Ignacio “Fito” Celedón. Amber Nelson and Ignacio “Fito” Celedón. Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan said he is “very hopeful” about solving the homicide case of Adolfo Ignacio Celedón, 35, who was killed on Adeline Street near Emerson on Sunday, Sept. 12, while walking home from a party with his fiancée, Amber Nelson. Speaking at […]
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In Berkeley slaying, victim defended fiancée
Amber Nelson and Adolfo Ignacio Celedon. Photo: San Francisco Chronicle Adolfo Ignacio Celedón, the 35-year-old Chilean man who was shot and killed during a robbery in south Berkeley on Sept. 12, died as he tried to protect his fiancée, according to an article by Henry Lee in the San Francisco Chronicle. When two men jumped out of […]