Former San Jose University students. The three were found guilty of misdemeanor battery against Donald Williams but escaped conviction on hate crime allegation. Prosecutors say logan beaschler, Joseph Bomgardner and colin warren used racial slurred and put a bike lock around his neck when they shared a dorm in 2013. The judge declared a mistrial for the other two defendants after the jury deadlocked on the hate crime charge. But we believe the evidence very strongly supported that these acts were motivated in whole and in part by bigotry. The former students will be sentenced march 14th. An attorney for bumgardner refused comments until a civil lawsuit filed by the victim is settled. The naacp plans to go to Court Tomorrow to challenge an arbitrators decision allowing a fired San Jose Police officer to go back on the job just daying after an independepenependent a reinstated officer phillip white, tweets that supported the black lives Matter Movement in 2014 were not cause for his dism
Williams who is back. Defendant colin warren is seen leaving the courthouse an hour ago. He and two other roommates charged with put a bicycle lock around his neck and hanging a Confederate Flag in the dorm room. First we hear from the district attorney. You have to prove what was going on in someones mind when they were committing a certain act, so i think theres always difficulties with it, but we believe the evidence very strongly supported that these acts were motivated in whole and in part by bigotry. Im hesitant to say anything because as you all know, theres a 5 million lawsuit. It is pending against my client. The others, and the university. So for those reasons, im not going to comment further. Reporter here are d. J. Williams and his father outside the courthouse. They did not make any comments about the jurys verdicts. The defendants will be back in Court Next Month for sentencing. Their battery conviction carries a potential jail time of up to six months. Now the District A
Hayward police said there were additional arrests keep. But all options open so they can definitely determined that no one else involved was a part of this. Catherine a group of men accused of stealing purses from women as they walked out of the east bay mall arm robbery happened speed one read a small close to an address is 5 tonight on more with what happens. Reporter we just got picture of one suspect from pleasanton and the last minutes we want to show you right now. Here it is between 18 and 25 years old medium build wearing dark hooded sweat shirts. One suspect seen holding long black a stick or piece of metal possibly along gaunt and appears the police say the same group of guys had similar tax. The two different crimes happen saturday night and sunday afternoon saturday night was a 17 yearold girl from danville walking with her friend and her parking lot. The suspects tried to grab her purse fought back and punched her pushed her to the ground. And sunday afternoon a 63 year ol
Warming up. 72 in downtown oakland. And a few high clouds. San jose climate data is very interesting. Not so much the high and the average. But the record, 24 in 1897. Except for the higher clouds, mostly sunny. Fairfield and san ramon, and nice to mild to warm. Above average on the temps, there could be a little bit of fog but nothing compared to yesterday. Temperatures well above average and heres 70 for almost everybody. All right, sal. We have a couple things. I have an update on the crashes weve been following. In the fairfield, cordelia area. West 80 near 680 a crash has been moved to the shoulder. And traffic is slow from fairfield. And soon it might be backed up to vacaville. After that through vallejo looks fine. Highway4 is getting slow in pittsburg and bay point. And San Francisco avoid northbound 101. Theres an overturned vehicle at vermont street. And traffic is terrible northbound 101. Use the 280 extension and save yourself plenty of time. Or its early enough to use the
Incidents were nothing more than pranks. Sentencing is scheduled for march 14th. They could each get up to six months in jail. A judge ordered the uber driver accused of killing six people in michigan held without bail. 45yearold jason dalton appeared before a judge through a court video feed. He is charged with six counts of murder, two counts of assault with intent to commit murder and eight felony gun counts. Police say dalton went on a sevenhour rampage and randomly shot victims at several locations. Four people were killed outside a restaurant, and a 14yearold girl was also wounded and is in critical condition. A father and son were shot and killed outside a car dealership. Investigators say they are still trying to piece together a possible motive as it appears there is no connection between the victims and dalton. Mike towbin has that part of the story. Reporter random shootings leaving at least six people dead in kalamazoo, michigan. The alleged shooter, 45year old jason dalton