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SAN JOSE A renowned South Bay soccer coach, whose roots go back to playing for a forerunner of the San Jose Earthquakes, is speaking publicly for the first time about a violent clash in June inside his Almaden Valley home where he fatally shot his longtime friend, former teammate and coaching colleague. Dave Gold has been cleared of criminal liability in the death of Ronald Morriss.

A Pembroke Pines man was arrested Sunday on murder charges following the discovery Wednesday of two bodies in a Pembroke Pines house. Isaiah Collins, 27, was arrested by the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office at a park in Miami Gardens and charged with the shooting deaths of Octavis Myers and a woman whose name has not been released, according to a news release from the Pembroke Pines Police Department.

there were signs of a struggle, of course. The surveillance camera, the wires had been cut. He had just ordered take-out food, come back from a vacation with his friends on Catalina Island. No indication at all that he was suicidal. No note and no behavior. He had just spoken to a family member on the phone. And then he's found dead with blood in multiple rooms. So that's impossible.

A 28-year-old man was killed and a woman wounded in a late-night shooting Thursday inside a Brooklyn apartment building, police said. Officers responding to a 911 call just before midnight at 380 Lexington Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant found Shyhemm Lee with a gunshot wound to the head and a 23-year-old woman with a graze wound to the neck, according to the NYPD.

According to authorities, the inferno engulfed a home located at 87-86 254th St. in Bellerose around 3:20 p.m. on Sept. 8. When firefighters arrived, they put out the blaze but found two seniors dead. Police have now classified the incident as a homicide and are looking for the man who set the fire. Sources familiar with the investigation report that the suspect had visited several homes in the area and asked to use a phone charger but was ultimately turned away.

Crime Joshua Smith, 30, pleaded not guilty to murder and kidnapping charges in court Monday, according to reports. A man arrested in Lynn over the weekend is accused of murdering his 38-year-old sister, according to reports. Joshua Smith, 30, pleaded not guilty to murder and kidnapping charges in Lynn District Court in connection with the death of Michelle Knox, The Boston Globe reported from court. Prosecutors allege he made "numerous" statements outside the apartment about killing Knox, per the Globe.

One man was killed and two people were wounded in separate shootings across Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx on a bloody Sunday night, police reported. NYPD sources said the first shooting happened in the Bronx at about 7:16 p.m. on Sept. 7 outside of an apartment building located at 611 East 161st St. in Melrose. Officers from the 42nd Precinct received a report of an assault in progress. When they arrived, they discovered a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the face. EMS rushed him to Lincoln Hospital, where he was treated for a bullet wound to the cheek and listed in stable condition.

"They had a good friendship," said his granddaughter, who didn't give her name. "They never had any arguments. They were good."

The shooting happened about 8 p.m. Aug. 22 at the homeless encampment along a railroad right-of-way in the 30000 block of San Antonio Street. Authorities said both men lived at the camp and had been involved in a dispute of some kind. A witness told police Berber Zavala ran into the camp followed by two men, one later identified as Rodriguez Cazares.

But during his June sentencing hearing, Judge Kimberly Colwell called a private sidebar with the prosecuting and defense attorneys, then returned to the bench and announced the deal wouldn't be going through. I cannot agree to this because I don't believe it protects the public safety, Colwell said, according to a transcript of the hearing.

Today, the courts have affirmed what Bryan Hooper, his family, his loved ones, and his advocates have always known: Mr Hooper is an innocent man, Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty said in a statement. It is our duty as prosecutors to hold the correct individuals responsible for their actions, and that duty demands that we acknowledge our mistakes and make things right as quickly as we can.

Details are now emerging about an early May homicide that occurred at a senior housing facility on Laguna Street, and the killing was reportedly a fairly brutal one. Police released little information at the time about a homicide in early May on the unit block of Laguna Street, including whether it occurred on the street or inside a residence. As the Chronicle now reports via the SFPD, the victim was a 69-year-old man, John Tyler,

York Regional Police say the home invasion was targeted, but they have released few details about the incident and have not confirmed that there was a shooting. In a news release on Sunday, police said they responded to a residence in the area of Andreeta Drive and Barons Street for a report of a home invasion shortly before 1 a.m. on Sunday. When officers arrived, police said they found a man suffering from trauma to his body. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Three people, including an elderly woman, were found dead inside their Watertown home Saturday morning, officials said. Police responded to a home on Boyd Street around 10 a.m. Saturday for a well-being check, according to the Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan. The three residents were found with apparent gunshot wounds. The elderly woman who was one of the victims lived on the upper floor of the unit, while a man and a woman lived together on the bottom floor, the DA said.

Around 7 a.m. Sunday, 911 dispatchers received a call from someone concerned about a family member at an apartment complex on the 4800 block of El Camino Ave. When Sacramento County Sheriff's Office deputies arrived at the unit, they found bullet holes in the front of the residence. Inside, they discovered three deceased individuals, all dead from gunshot wounds. Details are scant.

The victim was named by authorities as 34-year-old Jessica Cariad Hopkins, originally from Harpenden in Hertfordshire. She was discovered with multiple stab wounds on Friday night in a public park in the Chamkarmon district of Phnom Penh, the country's capital, reported the Telegraph.

They were sure that the man responsible for the Feb. 2 death of 68-year-old Rolando Silva Sr. was his longtime friend, Larry Lopez, who was seen bringing his gun into Silva's home just minutes before the homicide. But Lopez's lawyer was claiming Silva had actually died of suicide, and when detectives swabbed the gun for DNA, the murder case was dealt another blow: skin cells on the trigger were matched to Silva, not Lopez, the undisputed owner of the firearm.

Darin McFarlin, 47, was arrested shortly after midnight Friday, Aug. 22, near Bridgeport. Three hours earlier, El Dorado County sheriff's deputies had been called to his Cameron Park home, where they found a woman and a child who had been shot. The woman, pronounced dead at the scene, was identified as McFarlin's girlfriend, Marissa Herzog, 29. The child, who died at a hospital, was her son, a second-grader. Nobody else was in the house, the sheriff's office said,

Delbert Cornish, who described himself as an alcoholic who struggles with depression, told Canyon County police he had purchased a gun last fall with plans to kill his three children and himself, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Idaho News 6. Cornish, who was taken into custody on August 18, said he didn't initially follow through with the plan because his oldest son was sent to prison for violating parole.

A man accused of fatally stabbing a 71-year-old retiree in her National City home last week had initially posed as a door-to-door salesman before later ambushing her, beating her with a rock then attacking her with her own kitchen knives, a prosecutor alleged Monday. Noel Trevino, who prosecutors believe was a stranger to the woman, allegedly killed Wanda Taylor when she returned alone to the house she shared with her husband on Division Street near D Avenue around noon Wednesday, prosecutors said.

A man has been accused of killing his 18-year-old daughter. Onyx Cornish was found dead at her home in Caldwell, Idaho, last Tuesday (19 August) by officers responding to reports of an armed man, in the house. According to an affidavit, her body was found wrapped in a Pride flag, Idaho News 6 reports. Her father, 51-year-old Delbert Cornish, was arrested later that evening. Cornish was charged with murder and aggravated assault, according to court reports seen by People.