Outcome, sierras mother says she is glad her fdaughters killer will never walk the streets again. It gives us peace as a family, knowing that this wont happen to another child and that you cant get away with Something Like this catherine in addition to murder and kidnapping the jury also found garciatorres guilty of attempted carjacking. Prosecutors say he targeted women at Safeway Stores around morgan hill in a series of failed abductions before he kidnapped sierra lamar. Vicki and grant . vicki todays verdict was five years in the making and the bay area has followed this case every step of the way. grant and kron fours rob fladboe has been there since the beginning. He joins us live now from san jose. And rob, you were in the court room this morning when the verdict was read. What was the reaction like . rob live people started lining up outside the courthouse hours before the verdict was to be handed down. Every seat was taken in department 40 and dozens more people were watching v
We are grateful to the jurors for coming up with the right decision. Antolin Garcia Torres sat expressionless as he was found guilty of kidnapping and murder with special circumstances. A verdict that could put him on death row. This is a longtime coming. Its bittersweet. We dont have sierra thats the bittersweet part. There were no witnesses to connect antolin Garcia Torres to sierra lamars disappearance from this morgan hill crossroads. No evidence that he knew her. No murder weapon, or evidence of what happened to her body. Defense attorneys claimed that she was a runaway and is still alive. Prosecutors pinned their hopes on forensic evidence from her phone and purse, found nearby. The purse had her clothes inside. And there, they found the defendents d n a. He was arrested two months after her disappearance. And detetctives discovered her d n a and a strand of her hair in his car. That was enough for the jury of of six women and six men. They delivered their verdict after deliberat
Front of the police barracks. Philadelphia police say after the stop on alden, it went to montgomery and belmont, and then another pursuit until the car stopped in front of the st. Police barracks. Were working to get more details on why the car was stopped in the first place. We had heard reports of gun shots fired in the area at that time. Right now, we hear five people are being questioned right here at southwest detectives in connection with this. As soon as we get more information, well pass it along. Matt delucia, nbc10 news. A man is in the hospital in stable but Critical Condition after being shot by Police Officers. Authorities say plain clothes saw two men leaving what they call a known drug house last night. One man pointed a gun at him. The officer shot him and the second man is in the hospital this morning. A woman is in the hospital after the woman says her boyfriend beat her. A tipster called internal affairs, that led detectives to the hospital where they found the woma
Snap chats Parent Company goes public. Everybody here in the bay area is watching this closely. Daniels is a consultant focused on snap. It may inspire local Tech Companies to get serious. Seeing what happened today could really get boards excited. And if boards in the next couple months start saying, lets be like snap, we could have just a quite a herd of really nice companies, and unicorns heading toward the markets. That would be awesome. Potentially awesome for those companies, what about the bay area economy and housing market, which has been pricing people out for years. One ipo like that could make a difference. Steve has been a realtor in San Francisco for 40 years, and says, tech has changed the market, facebooks Public Offering in 2012, almost doubled the number of Million Dollar listings in menlo park. People make an offer in good faith, and the property gets bid up 20 , very frustrating. Folks do leave the city because of that. Another blockbuster ipo just makes that worse.
Joining us tonight. Two former Stanford University students are multibillionaires. This morning, snap cofoun r cofounders rang the opening bell on the New York Stock Exchange as their company went publ public. The company had even more to celebrate after the closing bell. Snap finished its first day of trading at 24. 48. It managed to rise on a day the rest of the market dropped. The dow fell more than 100 points, the nasdaq dropped by 42. This is the biggest and most expensive American Tech Company to go public since facebook in 2012. Snap isnt a bay area company, its based in venice beach. Kate larson is live to explain how it has an influence on our local tech industry, kate . Even though snap is based in los angeles, it still feels like a Silicon Valley startup, a lot of the investors and people who work there are from the bay area. Which has people wondering if snap may be the end of a years long ipo dry spell. Snap chats Parent Company goes public. Everybody here in the bay area