Today, police released this sketch of the person they believe is connected to the fatal stabbing of a teenage boy in San Francisco's Ingleside neighborhood last week.

If you recall, "Victor Zheng, 16, was stabbed at about 10:55 p.m. on Feb. 7 near the intersection of Capitol and De Montfort avenues, just off of Ocean Avenue."

SFPD are on the hunt for "an Asian man, 18 to 19 years old, 5-foot-10 to 5-foot-11, weighing 160 to 180 pounds, with dark hair and eyes." Also, he might "have a mole on his upper right cheek." Information can be directed to homicide investigators at 415-553-1145 or an anonymous tip line at 415-575-4444.

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Oh dear. A 12-year-old Oakland girl who showed up at Oakland Children's Hospital on Sunday "after disappearing for several days admitted to authorities that she lied about being sexually assaulted." According to KTVU, she was last seen leaving Frick Middle School in Oakland on Thursday. "She told police Sunday that she took a bus to a San Leandro home and that she was sexually assaulted by two adult men." After further questioning and heaps of inconsistencies, police say the girl admitted to making up the yarn. Apparently, she was "at someone's house" the entire time. [KTVU]

BCN (via CBS 5) reports that police are searching for a girl who went missing from a Edgewood Center for Children and Families, a group home on Vicente Street. Jeanetta Toluao, 16, was last seen on Saturday in Potrero Hill, and she could be "possibly be staying near Third Street in the Bayview District." Authorities say she "suffers from a medical condition that requires immediate treatment, and is at great risk being in the community at large." Described as a Pacific Islander, around 5' 7", about 210 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes. Anyone with info should SFPD at 415-558-5508 or 415-553-1071.

The 17-year-old boy who had been reported missing in the water near Davenport Beach early his week has been identified as Dennis Cyncor-McMillan of Los Gatos. According to reports, "[a]round 4 a.m. Monday, Dennis and his 17-year-old friend decided to swim to a pinnacle a short distance out in the rocky cove." After straying from his pal, the Cal Fire, State Parks, U.S. Coast Guard, La Selva Fire Department, a boat, and a helicopter failed to find him. The search has been suspended.

Cyncor-McMillan was described as "popular on many fronts." Dennis, the Mercury News goes on to report, "was a member of the Los Gatos High School football team, and he would be the second player on the team to die suddenly in the past few months. Michael Halpin, a member of the team, collapsed at school and died Dec. 2."

The U.S. Coast Guard is looking for a 17-year-old boy who has been reported missing in the water near Davenport Beach early Monday morning. According to officer Nicholas Lajoie, the boy "[t]he boy was with a friend in the water when he tripped and fell." (Brrrrr.) The teen was reported missing at around 4:15 a.m. This comes on the heels of a 30-year-old Santa Clara man who drowned while kite-surfing at Poplar Beach in Half Moon Bay on Sunday afternoon.

As students were taking their final exams yesterday afternoon, a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed on Somerset Street, right across from Philip and Sala Burton High School, according to the . While the victim has yet to be identified, the murder suspect is described as "a single black suspect, age 17 or 18." Police are also looking for another nondescript suspect "driving a white vehicle."

Students were then immediately put on lock down while SFPD investigated the murder. As of now no arrests have been made. Oh, and this makes it the 48th homicide of 2008 in SF as of today. The big 5-0 is coming up!

Update: The teen shot and killed yesteday has been identified as Trayon Dixson. The victim, according to Police Sgt. Wilfred Williams, was not a student at teh nearby school.

All the way down in garlic country, Gilroy, a 19-year-old mentally disabled man was raped early Wednesday morning inside a bathroom near Miller Park.
After "befriending" a man inside a nearby convenience store, the teen's new friend, identified as Gyasi Terran, followed him to the park and once inside a bathroom, sexually assaulted him.

The victim then returned to said store and told an employee to call the cops. (To see what the alleged assailant looks like, go here.)

If you know Terran, or have any further info on the case, you are urged to call Gilroy Police dick Mike Beebe at 408-846-0350.

Young whippersnapper, Santa Cruz resident 18-year-old Matthew Rosenberg, called his mom on Monday to tell her he had "tripped, broke his leg and was lost" in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He was half right. What he didn't tell her was that he was also bombed out of his mind on hallucinogenic mushrooms and a wee bit of acid. Oh yeah, and that he didn't break his leg.

An expensive rescue effort ensued, and Rosenberg was found safe and...very happy. According to Fire Captain Bill Finch:

"He was really gorked," Finch said of Rosenberg's condition when rescuers found him standing near a rock at the bottom of a ravine - more amused and bewildered than safe and sound. "He wasn't normal. He was like one of those guys who's been drinking a lot and starts saying, 'I love ya, man.'"

No criminal charges will be filed against the Los Gatos High School senior, but the kid's father tells ABC 7 that "he probably won't get to use the car for a while."

Update: The murdered teen has been identified as Carlos Sousa, Jr.

As the investigation continues into Christmas Day's gruesome tiger attack at the SF Zoo, it turns out that the guy killed by Tatiana the tiger was a 17-year-old boy from San Jose. Unidentified at this point, and currently stuck with the moniker "John Doe 116," it seems that he also knew the tiger's two other victims, 19- and 23-year-old brothers from San Jose. The first attack occurred 300 yards from the second and third attacks.

According to the Gate:

Lora LaMarca, a zoo spokeswoman, said this morning that officials still have no idea how the animal escaped from its grotto, which is surrounded by a 15-foot-wide moat and a 20-foot high wall. Police on Tuesday night refused to rule out the possibility of carelessness or criminal activity, and zoo officials said the tiger did not escape through the grotto's only door.

She went on to say that if, in fact, someone released the tiger intentionally while visiting the SF Zoo, "it would be considered a crime." Yikes. An individual's fault? The Zoo's fault? God's fault? Your fault? We shall see. But for now, anyone who might have witnessed Tatiana's escape on Tuesday or the attacks is urged to call authorities at 415-553-0123.

Police found missing diabetic East Bay teen ("missing," "diabetic," and from the "East Bay" -- ow, that's rough), who also suffers from depression, in "ok" condition this afternoon. Whew. According to NBC11, "ambulance crews pulled [Rosalind "Rosie" Blanckenburg] off a trail at the park at about 1:25 p.m. near Woodhaven and Sinset." No word yet on how she ended up in the park, but for now she is safe and (hopefully) sound.

We're sure that her poor parents have been having a Paul Lynde moment since yesterday, so we wish Rosie and her family all the best. Hang in there, girl.


Image credit: NBC11

Although we're not sure at this point whether or not Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan's assailant is in custody, according to CBS 5, "at least three boys were taken into custody Tuesday morning after police developed several leads and served multiple search and arrest warrants...as many as five people were taken into custody at one of the search warrant locations."

If you remember way back last week, 15-year-old Ichinkhorloo Bayarsaikhan was shot and killed at Washington Park during a botched robbery attempt while kicking it with some friends. The group of boys responsible for her shooting escaped on a bus, but now it seems that some or all of them have been caught. We'll update in the arrests when we know more.

Also, the Chronicle keeps reminding us that she emulated TV "chef" Rachael Ray, but we would like to think that Bayarsaikhan one upped her idol, making food that was tasty and digestible.

Nothing says love like a sourdough bread bowl filled with New England clam chowder, a few hundred barking, stinky sea lions, and a blue square (aka registered sex offender) escorting an underage girl through the biggest tourist trap in the city.

If you thought that buskers jumping out from behind garbage cans were the scariest thing about Fisherman's Wharf, now there's something else to keep you away from the area. Could Fisherman's Wharf be the new hot spot for sexual predators?

According Eric Thomas from ABC 7, who went into mighty graphic detail about what happened, a suspect was arrested today for the kidnapping and rape of a 17-year-old Palo Alto teen. A press conference is scheduled at noon (now!), where even more details, names will surely unfold.

This past Wednesday a teen was kidnapped in Palo Alto, taken to Sunnyvale (on the 500 block of Fair Oaks Avenue), and then sexually assaulted. She survived the attack after managing to escape from the car and flag down another driver.

Update: According to le Chron, the suspect is Todd David Burpee, 20, who was arrested as he while he was grabbing some fast food with his girlfriend last night. He didn't know his potential victim, and is "being held in Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, kidnapping and two counts of sexual assault."

Check our CBS 5's footage for more info.