A 20-year-old motorist will be sentenced April 17 after he pleaded guilty to hit and run in the death of an 81-year-old retired attorney who was killed Feb. 13 walking his two small dogs in National City. Robert Turner Gustafson, 81, worked as an attorney for 54 years and was a public defender with an…
Rev. Caedmon Grace is improving after being seriously injured March 20 in a motorcycle accident minutes after leaving the Metropolitan Community Church where he works as minister of congregational life. Grace, 38, sustained multiple fractures on his left leg and was initially taken to the UCSD trauma unit. He was transferred to another hospital March…
The attorney for an Otay Mesa man accused of killing his boyfriend in Mexico has asked a judge to admit personal online ads by the victim into evidence during the April murder trial. David Enrique Meza, 26, is charged with stabbing Jake Merendino, 52, to death off a highway between Rosarito and Ensenada, Mexico. He…
SAN DIEGO – A judge has determined Jon David Guerrero is mentally competent to stand trial for three bizarre murders of homeless men in Ocean Beach, Mission Bay and downtown. San Diego Superior Court Judge David Danielsen confirmed a psychiatric hospital’s finding that Guerrero is competent and criminal proceedings resumed in his March 20 ruling….
SAN DIEGO – San Diego Councilmember Chris Ward (District Three) Monday issued a memo outlining a number of approaches and strategies to address San Diego’s ongoing homelessness challenges. The memo, directed to San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and San Diego City Council President Myrtle Cole, comes following a special City Council meeting specifically to receive…
Thom Senzee, author of this article, is a West Coast-based freelance journalist, and a regular contributor to San Diego LGBT Weekly. Longtime San Diego restaurateur, Brian Stout, former owner of Brians’ American Eatery (the plural apostrophe noting the shared first name of the owners of the eatery, which once occupied the site on Washington Street…
A motorist who struck and killed a 78-year-old tourist on Fifth Avenue in Hillcrest surrendered March 10 to begin his 180-day jail term for hit and run and driving under the influence of alcohol. Robert Anthony Dean, 60, told officials he was drinking alcohol at The Caliph, a popular gay bar, and left at 10:45…
A May 8 preliminary hearing was set for a prisoner who was recently charged with murdering a 15-year-old boy who had been sexually assaulted nearly 30 years ago. A DNA profile was developed due to recent advances in forensic technology and it matched Russell Taylor, now 56, who was serving a sentence of 25 years…
Hate crimes in the city of San Diego decreased by only one incident in 2016 over hate crimes committed in 2015 for a total of 35 crimes, according to the police chief’s report on crime statistics. There were 11 crimes attributed to the anti-gay bias of an attacker in 2016 as compared with 14 such…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The Board of Directors of San Diego Pride announced Friday that they had selected a search committee to review applicants for the position of executive director. The initial review of applicants by Nonprofit Management Solutions has resulted in several qualified candidates. In a press release the board said, “Interviews are expected…
