Update: Michael Diggs entered a no-contest plea to a murder charge July 6, 2015, according to Alameda County court records online. He was later found not guilty by reason of insanity. Original story: A judge has freed a woman arrested after the killing of a Berkeley man in February, but ruled Thursday that her boyfriend must […]
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Exclusive: Alleged killer says sexual advances toward girlfriend prompted Berkeley homicide
Michael Diggs, the homeless man charged with killing a 54-year-old Berkeley man with a hatchet in late February, told police he snapped after the victim walked naked into the bathroom where Diggs’ girlfriend was showering, then tried to force her to have sex with him. Police arrested 29-year-old Diggs in early April in connection with the killing of Sylvan Fuselier in Berkeley more […]
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‘Not guilty’ pleas entered in Berkeley hatchet killing
The Berkeley couple accused of stabbing a West Berkeley man to death with a hatchet earlier this year entered not guilty pleas in court Monday. Kneitawnye Trishawn Sessoms, 41, and Michael Diggs, 28, were charged with killing 54-year-old Sylvan Fuselier in February in his home in the 1100 block of Addison Street. According to court papers, police found Fuselier deceased at […]
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Breaking: Charges filed against 2 in Berkeley homicide
The Berkeley Police Department has arrested two people in the city’s only homicide so far this year, authorities said Wednesday. Police have arrested Berkeley couple Kneitawnye Trishawn Sessoms, 40, and Michael Diggs, 28. Sessoms was arrested Monday, March 31, at 7 p.m., according to the Alameda County sheriff’s department. Diggs has been in custody since March 12 when […]
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Police release ID of city’s first homicide victim of year
Update, March 14, 3:45 p.m.: Berkeleyside checked in with the Berkeley Police Department to see if any additional information was available about the Sylvan Fuselier homicide. Due to the ongoing investigation, police said there is not: “We don’t have any developments or updates to disclose at this point on the Fuselier homicide. Homicide investigators are working […]
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Berkeley neighbors express concerns after homicide
Five days after police found the body of a man they say was Berkeley’s first homicide of 2014, authorities have not released many basic facts about the case, citing the ongoing investigation. Some residents of the man’s West Berkeley neighborhood said Tuesday the lack of information has left them feeling unsettled and unsafe. The two-block stretch […]
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Berkeley police investigating homicide on Addison Street
Berkeley Police officers are investigating what they say was the homicide of a man in his 50s in the 1100 block of Addison Street, near San Pablo Avenue, in West Berkeley. On Friday, Feb. 28, at 11:46 a.m. police received a call for a welfare check at an apartment building in the 1100 block of Addison, […]