Footage from a dashboard camera reveals that the suspect, Christopher Boone Lacy, 36, pulled a gun on CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom, 37, after he attempted to stop him for an alleged traffic violation, according to a press release from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office.
The shooting occurred around 8:30 a.m. in Alamo on southbound Interstate 680. Youngstrom and his partner were in two separate vehicles.
At 8:20 a.m., they "responded to a report of a traffic accident near Rudgear Road and Highway 680," a written report said. "Youngstrom was unable to locate the accident and cleared the detail. Officer Youngstrom agreed to meet his partner on southbound 680 to handle a dead deer on the side of the roadway. As he was on the way to the location, the beat partner notified Officer Youngstrom that he was going to conduct a traffic stop on a green Jeep Wrangler for an obstructed license plate."
Youngstrom had parked ahead on the side of the road and stepped from his patrol car to direct the green Jeep to the side of the road. The driver in the Jeep pulled up behind Youngstrom's patrol car, and Youngstrom walked toward the driver's side window. While Youngstrom and the driver, Lacy, briefly conversed, the other officer joined the two other parked cars, Lee said.
Then, without warning, Lacy pulled his gun and shot Youngstrom. Youngstrom's partner -- who is not being identified -- then shot Lacy in the head.
In this era, when modern humans can nip and tuck anything to make themselves look like ageless gods, it's hard to believe that anyone approaching 40 would choose to look so damn haggard.
In case it slipped your mind, BART is having a birthday this month -- its 40th. If you find this news hard to believe, look no further than the four decades of carpet on your train. In any event, the employees were hoping all you loyal passengers would make 40 a special ride for BART.
BART fired off an e-mail today to its passengers asking for any and all old BART memorabilia (like photos of BART at its first birthday party with frosting on its face)?
The old Coca-Cola motto used to note "you can't beat the real thing." This Yellow Cab driver seems to agree. Rather than settle for a standard dashboard bobble-headed dog for his vehicle, he's got the real thing!
SF Weekly at first mistook this creature for a Made-in-Taiwan decoration. We were disabused of our mistake when he slowly opened just his right eye and directed a cough-like bark at us out of the side of his mouth.
San Francisco has lots to be proud of: the beautiful scenery, its generous community of sugar daddies, and the nonstop sex. You can officially add our semi-responsible drinking habits to that powerful list.
San Francisco police are congratulating all you drivers out there for cutting out the booze before getting behind the wheel this summer. Over the last few weeks, the cops hauled 144 alleged drunk drivers to jail. That's a promising 23 percent drop from 186 during the same time period last year.
Even better, nobody was killed by an inebriated driver. We'll drink to that!
Sometimes it's hard to decide which is worse -- insurance companies, banks, or just the 1 percent. Today, banks win.
We just learned that banking giants charge Americans anywhere from $84 to $144 every year just to maintain a bank account, according to a report from the California Reinvestment Coalition.
And you could probably guess the culprits: Wells Fargo, Chase, Citibank, Bank of America, and U.S. Bank.
If you just landed in San Francisco and -- like every other excitable transplant -- are eager to find a dirt-cheap place to crash, well, this guy has just made your week.
This 53-year-old man placed a very honest ad on Craigslist that's both strangely welcoming and off-putting all at the same time. Naturally, he's looking for many of the same things most single men want in a living situation: a female to share a room with, who is both marijuana- and raccoon-friendly.
Did we mention you'd be sharing a bedroom with him? Yep, with an imaginary line drawn right down the middle, to ensure an equal partnership.
Here's something to like: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is slated to give his first onstage interview since May in San Francisco next week.
The man and his the hoodie will reportedly regale his fellow Facebookers (and annoyed investors?) on Sept. 11 at 2 p .m. at TechCrunch Disrupt SF -- a technology convention that showcases startups, speakers, hackers, and the general nerd.
Aside from showing Clint Eastwood how a speech is given sans empty chairs, Michelle Obama's electrifying oration at the Democratic National Convention also nearly broke Twitter.
Let's face it, the First Lady's speech rocked the house last night -- and when we say it rocked, we mean her 25-minute speech on what it's like to love Barack Obama reportedly got 28,003 tweets per minute at its peak. Not that we are keeping score here, but that's nearly double the 14,289 mark Mitt Romney's acceptance speech had last week. And, for the record, Ann Romney's speech generated a mere 6,195 tweets per minute at its peak.
Here's some of our favorite Twitter responses Michelle Obama's speech:
Earlier this summer, police arrested three women who they believe are responsible for scamming older, Asian women out of money and jewelry by convincing them they had evil spirits attached to them. But those arrests haven't done much to stop these bizarre ghost scams plaguing the San Francisco Asian community.
Over the weekend, two more women -- both of whom are Asian and in their 60s -- were duped out of thousands of dollars after multiple suspects told them they had stepped in blood and, as a result, had wicked spirits attached to them.
The suspects employed their usual M.O., telling the victims they must go home, gather all their valuables, and bring them back to the suspects for a "purification ceremony." Sadly, the women did as instructed, only to find that after the purifying ritual, they were returned empty bags; one victim alone lost $35,000, according to police.
Luckily, one of the incidents, which occurred in Chinatown, was caught on video. It shows a group of four
women switching out one of the bags, then placing it in a different colored bag and walking away, according to police.
Needless to say, these crooks are "very confident" in their abilities.
How much space does a plant need to grow, if its population recently crashed to a single specimen?
In the case of the Franciscan Manzanita, a shrub thought to be extinct in the wild until it was discovered in 2009 growing alongside the Doyle Drive reconstruction project, the federal government thinks the answer is 318 acres in San Francisco.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service will list the species as endangered today (yes, it took three years for the government to rule that a species down to its last survivor is "endangered"). It's also preparing to set aside pockets of the city, stretching from the Presidio to Candlestick Park, as critical habitat where the plant could potentially blossom and recover.
