The murder of Tony Bologna and his two sons (allegedly) at the hands of MS-13 hang member Edwin Ramos, 21, was initially reported as an incident of road rage. But? It tuns out it was, in fact, a case of mistaken identity. See, Ramos assumed the car was filled with rival gang members because "the people in the car were similar to Hispanic males." Scary. Also, MS-134 should consider an eye exam and IQ test......

Member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) street gang -- considered "one of the most dangerous street gangs in San Francisco" -- Edwin Ramos, 21, of El Sobrante was arrested for last Sunday's road-rage shooting deaths of Tony Bologna and his two sons, Michael and Matthew. The suspect allegedly shot the family to death, according to the Chronicle, because Tony "inadvertently blocked another car from completing a left turn onto Congdon from Maynard Street...after the......

Matthew Bologna, the 16-year-old road rage shooting victim who was alive but in critical condition at San Francisco General Hospital, was taken off life support last night and pronounced dead. This makes the third death in last Sunday's vehicular-anger deaths that took the lives of a father, Anthony Bologna,48, and his two sons. While no arrests have been made, a sketch of the suspected gunman has been released (at right). An resemblance of the......

Early this morning at around 1:10 a.m., an unidentified woman, 36, was shot while waiting in her car at a stop sign on the 1500 block of Shafter Avenue in Bayview. No word yet as to why. The shooting victim was rushed to SF General and is in stable condition. No arrests have been made. Of course. This shooting comes on the heels of Sunday's alleged road rage shooting in the Excelsior, which took......

MISSION, SATURDAY: While driving along the Highway 101 exit at Mission and Duboce, with her twin toddlers in tow, 31-year-old Milika Fields was shot and killed this past Saturday night. At around 7:15 p.m., the fuzz found "a silver Mazda MPV minivan riddled with bullet holes and three victims with gunshot wounds," according to SFPD Sargent Neville Gittens. (Her 12-year-old son and brother were also hit, expected to live.) The incident is believed to......

The latest weekend murder in SF: At around noon on Saturday, a 66-year-old Asian man was shot to death after a road rage incident in Viz Valley. Witnesses say the man was arguing with three men in their late teens or early 20s after a fender bender right before the shots were fired. After shooting the man, at least one of the suspects then stole the man's car. The car was later recovered; the cops......

We're back from vacation -- and boy, did we miss the San Francisco news. A special Sunday Blotter to celebrate coming home! The South SF police and Humane Society had to intercede for an unfortunate man overwhelmed by 80+ rabbits last Friday. He had apparently bought two rabbits two years ago for his son's school project, and, well -- you can probably figure out the rest (it involves multiplication). The man also didn't realize you......

Easy with the road rage, fellas! A man in a 1967 Corvette is dead after getting into what cops think was some kind of high-speed road rage chase in Hayward, losing control of his car on a curve in a cemetery, and crashing into a mausoleum. The impact of the crash opened up two crypts and totalled the recently-restored car. Witnesses say the Corvette driver was seen earlier making hand gestures at a driver in......

LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......

Hey, where's Nedra Ruiz these days? Police are reporting that the man who caused the horrific Castro car fires last week may have suffered a seizure while driving down the Castro Street hill. He was still driving, even though he'd had a seizure three months earlier. That's really not good. Police haven't named him, but ID him as a 50-year old wine merchant from Paso Robles. Angry young Yusef Bey IV of Your Black Muslim......

Folks, you've just gotta learn to let it go: today's fourth-runner-up in the Great SFist Blotter Crime News Gathering (i.e., a frantic search of all the area news sites to find something interesting and not too morbid for your Tuesday or Friday am light reading) was the man found mysteriously dead at home. As it started out, Donald Frailey, a 66-year-old man in Woodside, had called 911 yesterday to report a beating and carjacking. When the cops raced to his house, he was already dead. However, he had no blood or bruising on his body. Weird! We were like, "OMG, this is just like the beginning of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire! He was Avada Kedavraed! Lord You-Know-Who walks the earth again!" Then we found the story about the San Mateo woman with Alzheimers and put her in today's blotter instead. So later this morning, the Woodside cops announce that they've figured it out. Turns out Frailey had been involved in a road rage incident earlier that morning. A guy driving behind him (who he knew) was trying to pass him on Skyline Blvd., and Frailey kept speeding up. After the other driver cut in front, he claims Frailey then tailgated him. They pulled over, words were exchanged, and then the other driver grabbed Frailey's keys and threw them in the bushes. The electrician hasn't been charged with any crime (yet). The police think Frailey must have then walked the three miles home, and suffered a heart attack from the stress. Poignantly, the cops found a spare car key underneath the chair on which they found Frailey's body slumped. Well, on the bright side, at least it's not Lord You-Know-Who. Picture from Autobytel.com...

Turns out the SF Chron really meant it when they said they'd be doing a week-long special on the use of excessive force by the SFPD. Here's a summary for today. See that guy to your left? That's Officer Anthony Nelson in mid-swing, breaking up the 2003 anti-war rallies. He didn't just break up a rally, he broke up the arm of a protestor as well. Bummer for him and the city that the woman......

The latest road rage news is only further heightening our parallel parking phobias. ...

What's the best cure for road rage? Schadenfreude. Indulge yourself in a little Germanic feeling and check out the Chron's article on the cops who catch people who sneak into the carpool lane. There's somewhere between three and five cops who patrol the diamond lanes on the Bay Bridge, who relate their techniques (lie in wait behind the Bay Bridge office building, spot a violator, get behind them, pull them over at Two Trees, which......

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