The home at 1722 Ninth Street, whose owner is accused of having created a public nuisance for 30-plus years. Photo via Google Street View Bebo Turman describes the household at 1722 Ninth Street in Berkeley as “the neighbors from hell.” For more than 30 years the home, near Virginia Street in west Berkeley, has been […]
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Berkeley High student in critical condition
A 14-year-old boy who was shot by his best friend on Saturday night remains in critical condition, according to Sgt. Mary Kusmiss of the Berkeley Police Department. The boy, who is a freshman in the Academic Choice program at Berkeley High School, underwent surgery Saturday night to remove bullets a bullet from his head, according […]
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Berkeley police make second arrest in murder
Scene of the shooting on Sacramento St A member of Berkeley’s notorious Waterfront Gang, who has also played a role in an ongoing feud with Oakland gangs, has been arrested in connection with last week’s murder on Sacramento Street, authorities say. Coleon Lee Carroll, 20, has been charged with murdering Gary Ferguson Jr. as he […]
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Shooting on Alcatraz Avenue
Berkeley police are reporting that a man was shot around 3:26 p.m. today in an apartment building in the 1500 block of Alcatraz, near Sacramento. The man was transported to a local trauma center with life-threatening wounds, Sgt. Mary Kusmiss of the Berkeley police department told Bay City News. The shooting in south Berkeley took […]
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Berkeley police arrest man suspected of murder
Berkeley police have arrested a 21-year-old Bay Point man in connection with the Tuesday shooting on Sacramento Street that left 35-year-old Gary Ferguson Jr. dead and another man in serious condition. Brandon Wallace has been charged with murder and attempted murder, according to Sgt. Mary Kusmiss, a spokeswoman for the police department. She did not […]
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Memorial set up for Berkeley slaying victim
Sacramento St. memorial to Gary Ferguson Jr. The day after Berkeley resident Gary Ferguson Jr. was gunned down on a busy section of Sacramento Street, friends and family set up a makeshift shrine in his memory. Ferguson, 35, was killed around 8:43 am Tuesday Oct. 26 as he walked near Johnson’s House of Style on […]
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Another murder in Berkeley
Police examine bloody clothing left on ground after shooting One man was killed and another was seriously injured Tuesday in a mid-morning shooting on Sacramento Street near Russell. Two men were walking on the street near a neighborhood hang out called Johnson’s Barbershop around 8:43 a.m. when they were shot by two assailants, according to […]
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No spike in Berkeley crime because of injunction
Berkeley police chief Michael Meehan. Oakland’s three and a half month-old court order prohibiting 15 members of a north Oakland gang from gathering in public has not had much of an effect on south Berkeley’s crime rate. The area south of Ashby Avenue to the Oakland border has not seen any increase — or decrease […]
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Gang member arrested in Berkeley shooting
Doran Williams, Jr. An Oakland man who was wanted in connection with the shooting of two people sitting in a car in South Berkeley in May was arrested Wednesday night. Oakland police officers arrested Doran Williams Jr. after a brief foot chase. They had spotted Williams in a motel in Richmond and had followed him […]
