Results tagged “roadrage”

Yesterday, a little after 1pm at Haight and Steiner, an off-duty police officer was stabbed. According to reports, the officer was cycling along when he had a "verbal exchange or altercation" with a man in a Cadillac. After things got heated, the suspect got out of his car, stabbed the officer several times, got back in his car, and drove off. The unidentified officer was whisked to San Francisco General Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening wounds. After several eyewitnesses came forward, the suspect was later apprehended. Update: The suspect has been identified as Nicholas Batchelor "a 29-year-old white male from the Peninsula."

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 to their murder/rape initiation process. Read more about it here.

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.

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.

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.

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 have been sparked by road rage.

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 say someone tried to torch it, but failed.

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 a Mercedes with a "Kompressor" turbo engine. The Mercedes driver is not considered at fault but did speed away after the accident. The Corvette driver was coming to the cemetery to bring flowers to his mother's grave.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bay Area crime roundup

Brief compendium of Bay Area crimes in the last few days.