• Donate
  • Newsletters
  • Submit a tip
  • Shop
  • About
  • How we work
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Nosh
  • Arts
  • Business
  • City
  • Community
  • COVID
  • Crime
  • Housing
  • Neighborhoods
  • Schools
  • Obituaries
  • Opinion
  • Events
  • Latest news
  • The Oaklandside
  • Cocktail Week
  • New Restaurants
  • Nosh Features
  • Subscribe to Nosh

Nosh

  • New restaurants
  • Bites
  • Nosh features

Arts

Business

City

City

COVID-19

Crime & Safety

  • Policing
  • Homicide
  • Shootings
  • Traffic Safety

Events

Housing

Neighborhoods

Schools

Obituaries

Opinion

Skip to content
Berkeleyside

Berkeleyside

Nonprofit news. Free for all, funded by readers.

  • Donate
  • Newsletters
  • Submit a tip
  • Shop
  • About
  • How we work
  • Advertise
  • Contact
DONATE
  • Nosh
  • Arts
  • Business
  • City
  • Community
  • COVID
  • Crime
  • Housing
  • Neighborhoods
  • Schools
  • Obituaries
  • Opinion
  • Events
  • Latest news
  • The Oaklandside
  • Cocktail Week
  • New Restaurants
  • Nosh Features
  • Subscribe to Nosh
  • Nosh Logo (Highlight Menu)
  • Nosh

Storm damage photos, outages linger, 30-year wait to underground utility lines is nearly over | Historic Asian American bookshop closing

Seth Smith

Posted inCrime & Safety

Killer apologizes to mother of slain teen: ‘Before you know it, I shot Seth’

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso May 24, 2022, 4:56 p.m.August 4, 2022

Tony Walker described himself as a “washed-up nobody” who probably deserved to die in prison.

Posted inCrime & Safety

A Berkeley man was convicted of killing a Cal student. He must now explain why

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso May 20, 2022, 9:00 a.m.August 4, 2022

Until now, the motive for the fatal shooting has been shrouded in mystery. That is set to change Monday as part of a recent plea deal.

Posted inCrime & Safety

After killing of Cal student, Berkeley man confessed, key witness says

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Nov. 18, 2020, 4:55 p.m.August 4, 2022

An old friend of defendant Tony Walker said he confessed to a killing in June and had the same type of gun used in the crime just two days before the Seth Smith homicide.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Murder charges filed after Cal student’s killing

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Aug. 24, 2020, 4:55 p.m.August 4, 2022

The Alameda County district attorney’s office filed felony charges Monday against 60-year-old Berkeley resident Tony Walker in the June killing of 19-year-old Cal student Seth Smith.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Police make arrest in fatal shooting of Cal student

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso Aug. 21, 2020, 3:31 p.m.August 4, 2022

Berkeley police detectives have arrested a local man in connection with the fatal shooting of a Cal student who was walking on Dwight Way in West Berkeley in June.

Posted inObituaries

Remembering Seth Smith, 19, a Cal student who was killed in Berkeley on June 15

by Guest contributor June 26, 2020, 3:31 p.m.August 4, 2022

Friends called Seth “everyone’s brother.” He was revered by teachers as a student who took “AP everything.” A $50,000 reward has been offered to help solve the case. A new scholarship fund has also been created.

Posted inCrime & Safety

$50,000 reward offered to help solve murder of UC Berkeley student

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso June 18, 2020, 1:37 p.m.October 4, 2022

The city of Berkeley has announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in the murder of 19-year-old Cal student Seth Smith on Monday night.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Young man fatally shot in Berkeley identified as 19-year-old Cal student

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso June 17, 2020, 3:03 p.m.August 4, 2022

The young man found on Dwight Way late Monday night with a fatal gunshot wound to the head has been identified as a 19-year-old student who was set to begin his third year at UC Berkeley.

Posted inCrime & Safety

Update: Young man killed in fatal shooting in southwest Berkeley

Avatar photo by Emilie Raguso June 16, 2020, 1:35 a.m.October 4, 2022

Police in Berkeley are investigating the death of a man found with a gunshot wound to the head late Monday night.

Berkeleyside

Berkeleyside

  • Arts
  • Berkeley neighborhoods
  • Business
  • City
  • Community
  • Coronavirus
  • Crime & Safety
  • Events
  • Housing & Development
  • Obituaries
  • Opinion
  • Schools

Nosh

  • All Nosh
  • New Restaurants
  • Nosh Features
  • Coming Soon
  • Nightlife
  • Nosh Guides
  • Restaurant Closures

Info

  • Donate
  • Newsletters
  • Submit a tip
  • Shop
  • About
  • How we work
  • Advertise
  • Contact

Support

Donate to Berkeleyside and support independent local journalism.

Part of

© 2023 Cityside. All Rights Reserved. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic