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Fleeing California

Live Oak man charged with murder
By Cathy Kelly
Posted: 04/29/2009 01:30:39 AM PDT


Click photo to enlarge«1»SANTA CRUZ -- A Live Oak man will be arraigned on murder charges today, more than a week after another Live Oak man's body was found down a hillside beside Highway 1 in the Point Sur area, officials said.

Deputies said Tuesday they believe David Alford, 54, killed Hans Hugo Heath at Alford's home on the night of April 20, after meeting him that day.

The next morning, tourists spotted Heath's body beside a Highway 1 turnout in Monterey County, deputies said.

Heath, 58, was unemployed and had recently been paroled from prison, sheriff's Sgt. Mario Sulay said. He lived in an apartment near East Cliff Drive and Portola Drive, he said.

Alford was arrested Friday at his ocean-view home off 16th Avenue overlooking Sunny Cove.

Investigators linked him to the slaying after searching the home and a Lexus sports utility vehicle registered to his wife, Sulay said.

Charges of murder and use of a firearm were filed Tuesday, prosecutors said.

Alford lives with his wife, but she was out of town on business last week, Sulay said. An adult daughter who was visiting from Oregon was home at the time of the slaying, he said, and investigators are still working with witnesses.

Sulay declined to state a motive or release further details, but he said a weapon has not been recovered.

"They met one another on the day of the incident, randomly," he said. "They started up a conversation and ended up back at the suspect's home.


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"This is still under full investigation. We have a lot of threads we are trying to weave together."

Defense attorney Ben Rice said Alford is a hard-working family man. He worked as an estimator for a cement company for 25 years and raised six kids, he said.

"He and his wife are good, law-abiding people," he said. "This is going to take some sorting out, but David is the kind of guy who will befriend anyone and take in anyone who needs anything and this time his generosity and willingness to befriend people got him in a world of hurt."

Tuesday, Alford remained in County Jail with bail set at $750,000.

In the quiet, upscale neighborhood where he lives, neighbors said deputies were at the home most of the day Saturday. They said the couple moved in just a few months ago and were typically quiet.

However, music was blaring out of open windows at the home Friday, neighbors said.


Another false lead from you. This was a guy who murdered someone he knew at his own home. This wasn't stranger on stranger violence. Your bad.
 
Dylan Bayly sentenced to 12-year maximum for stabbing death of Justin Zuk
By Cathy Kelly - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Posted: 06/25/2010 12:33:02 PM PDT


Click photo to enlargeDylan Bayly rises next to his attorney Tony Serra to read a statement... (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel)«1234»Related
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British man arrested in connection with fatal stabbing in downtown Santa CruzSANTA CRUZ - During an emotional hearing Friday, Judge Robert Atack sentenced a Santa Cruz man to the maximum 12-year prison term for manslaughter for stabbing a man to death on a downtown street.

Dylan Bayly, 29, was charged with murder for killing his former roommate in the early morning hours of Sept. 27, 2008.

The victim, Justin Zuk, 26, was intoxicated when he approached Bayly outside a bar, punched him the side of the face and ran.

Bayly chased him and stabbed him twice, claiming Zuk turned and threatened him and that he thought he saw something in his hand. There were no witnesses to the stabbing, which one side claimed was self-defense and other claimed was murder.

A jury last month found Bayly guilty of voluntary manslaughter.

While prosecutor Jeff Rosell argued for the maximum term, defense attorney J. Tony Serra of San Francisco pled for leniency.

He said Bayly was raised a Buddhist and did not constitute "a wit of danger," as he urged the court to sentence him to probation.

Bayly has no record of violence, and is a glass blower who loves music and skateboarding, he said.

"The variables, which produced this behavior could never be replicated," Serra said. "...Revenge and vengeance aren't the highest calling of law or of society."

But Atack chose the other extreme, explaining to a packed courtroom that he reached that decision in part due to the "great degree of viciousness" of the attack.

Bayly's


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knife "slit open the decedent from ear to chest" and the second blow plunged the knife into his abdomen, he said. Either one would have killed him, Atack said.

Bayly then fled and tried to cover up the crime, throwing the bloody knife and his clothes away, Atack said.

The judge said he got numerous letters in support of both men.

Bayly read a statement in court, standing at the podium facing Atack dressed in yellow jail-issue clothing.

He said he has always believed violence is wrong, and then repeated that he felt his life was threatened that morning.

"I am sorry for killing Justin," he said. "That was never my intention." Bayly testified for three days, telling jurors he and Zuk had a tumultuous past and that Zuk was "unstable." The two had lived together in 2005, but went their separate ways after an argument over Zuk's medicinal marijuana grow and drug sales at the house turned violent and the police were called. No one was ever prosecuted for the incident

A longtime friend of Zuk, Molly Evans, spoke in court and expressed anger over Bayly's attitude on the stand.

"This is not something to be spoken about like Burning Man; this is as concrete as it gets," Evans said. "...His inability to answer a question directly is not characteristic of an artist; it is characteristic of a sociopath."

She and Zuk's mother described him as loving, charming and popular person who grew up in Visalia swimming, playing soccer and participating in church events. Evans said he "had a light in his eyes most people don't."

Outside court, Zuk's mother, Barbara Palmer, said she was pleased with the maximum sentence, but had been "devastated" the verdict was manslaughter and not murder.

"It's the best we could have done today," Palmer said. "But none of it brings my son back. The only peace I have is that I know he's in heaven."

Atack pointed out the pain on both sides.

"There are no winners in court," he said. "Only losers."

Bayly will be eligible for parole after serving 85 percent of the sentence, or about eight more years. Serra said there are a number of viable appellate issues, including the judge disallowing testimony about gang member friends of Zuk's who Bayly felt threatened by for years.

Outside, in the hallway, Bayly's mother approached Zuk's mother and the two cried together, clasping hands at one point.




A guy killed his roommate in hot blood. This wasn't random stranger on stranger violence. Your bad.
 
Not all undocumented immigrants are criminals. Get this through your head.

They are in the country illegally, thus making them ALL CRIMINALS! Duh!
 
A guy killed his roommate in hot blood. This wasn't random stranger on stranger violence. Your bad.

Is one type of murder worse than another? And if you have such a problem with illegals, why aren't you glad they are killing each other off?
 
Is one type of murder worse than another? And if you have such a problem with illegals, why aren't you glad they are killing each other off?

Dometic violence is evil, but it doesn't threaten me or my kith and kin. Gangbangers and their dope do threaten me. I've already had run ins with some of them. They have even tried to do their dope deals on our street. My neighbors and I had to run them off on three different occasions.

The gangbangers are so confident they are having shoot outs in broad daylight on busy public steets without regard to the possibility of hitting innocent bystanders. Last year a woman was driving on Mission Street when two Surenos saw a Norteno across the street. They opened fire and a bullet passed through her open window in front of her.

Also last year a bunch of gangbangers were at a car wash in Watsonville down the road when they were spotted by rival gangbangers. Both groups started opening up on each other in broad daylight on a busy street. These folks can't be deterred. They can only be avoided.
 
Local Homeless Man Living In Dumpster Crushed To Death:

"..."I'm saddened by what happened, but at the same time I didn't really know him," she said Monday. "For the homeless, I'd hate to have another person to have this tragedy in their lives. Just be careful."

Police traced the truck her father became trapped in at the Resource Recovery Facility on Dimeo Lane to a cardboard recycling receptacle that Parrish apparently had slept in on Encinal Street in the Harvey West area. The morning of his death, the recycling Dumpster was lifted up by a recycling truck, dumped and compacted - killing Parrish, according to the Coroner's Office..."

Read more at: Renewed push to keep homeless out of Santa Cruz Dumpsters follows man's death - Santa Cruz Sentinel

There are fifty thousand people living here. Two thousand of them are homeless.
 
Gangsters are patrolling the streets out here now:


Man shot in suspected gang attack on Monterey/Santa Cruz county line

By Cathy Kelly
Posted: 02/02/2011 10:20:50 AM PST



NORTH MONTEREY COUNTY — A man was shot in the arm Tuesday night when a group of men rushed his parked car on the 600 block of Trafton Road and started banging on it and yelling “What do you claim?” and then fired two or three shots as he drove away, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office reported.

One of the shots grazed his arm, deputies said.

Read more at: Man shot in suspected gang attack on Monterey/Santa Cruz county line - Santa Cruz Sentinel
 
Why are you spamming your own thread?
 
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