By JOSH FRIEDMAN Authorities arrested four suspects on murder charges over a 2002 shooting in a Santa Maria parking structure that killed a 17-year-old boy and left a woman wounded. Shortly before midnight on Feb. 4, 2022, multiple 911 callers... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Fresno man has pleaded guilty to the murder of an elderly woman whom he killed in her rural Arroyo Grande home. On Nov. 27, 2020, while responding to reports of a possible trespass at a home... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A man convicted of murder over a home invasion gone wrong in Lost Osos is seeking a reduced sentence. [Tribune] In 2009, a trio of men conspired to invade the Los Osos home of Peter Davis and... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The suspect in a fatal shooting in Lompoc late last month is now facing two homicide charges after a man shot and wounded in the incident died of his injuries. Shortly after 3 a.m. on April 30,... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A suspect or suspects shot and killed one person and wounded another in Lompoc early Sunday morning. Shortly after 3 a.m., a 911 caller reported a domestic violence incident at a residence on the 1600 block of... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A San Luis Obispo County Judge ruled on Friday that a defendant was legally sane when he shot and killed a 37-year-old man and an 11-year-old boy at Morro Strand State Campground in 2001. Stephen Arthur Deflaun,... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A gunman shot and killed a man at a mobile home park in Lompoc Sunday evening. Shortly after 7 p.m., a caller reported a shooting at the Del Norte Mobile Estates, located at 321 W. North Avenue.... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A Grover Beach woman was brutally murdered in her home last week shortly after she complained of alleged wrongdoing at a neighboring church and criminal activity in her neighborhood. [Cal Coast Times] On Oct. 25, police officers... (Continue reading)
A San Luis Obispo judge ruled there is enough evidence to try South County man Robert Koehler for the murder of 26-year-old SLO woman Kristen Marti. [KSBY] Marti disappeared in January after she was last seen alive in the 1800... (Continue reading)
The man accused of murdering 26-year-old San Luis Obispo woman Kristen Marti was a john who was meeting the victim for paid sex on the day she disappeared, according to police testimony delivered Wednesday. [KSBY] During a preliminary hearing in... (Continue reading)