Our office. Right now we dont have any reason to believe that this is anything but an isolated act. Reporter authorities are act asking are asking people to be on the lookout for a silver 2003 volkswagen hatch back and the person driving that car should be considered armed and dangerous. The victim has not been identified. Investigators will only say he had been staying with friends in marin county and left to take his dog on a hike last night. Later on today a search team will be called in here top comb through this wooded area for any other evidence that might help lead to the killer. Weve expanded our crime scene because obviously the person or persons involved in this crime had to come to and from the location. This killing happened while there was quite a few people out on this trial. With that being said investigators would like anybody who was in this area between 5 00 and 6 00 last night to put in a call to the marin county sheriffs office. Alex savidge ktvu fox 2 news. Another
Surprised that someone was shot here. I dont understand what would drive someone to do that, but its a shame. Reporter they issued an alert to their Police Department nationwide to be on the lookout for that volkswagen jetta. In the marin county area, fox 2 news. A new audit finds that they are having trouble filling vacancies in the department. That the rate is at the all time high of 21 . We talked to the city leaders about their solution already in the works in a story new at 6 00. Long gone are the days of wanting to be the San Jose Police officer as the new audit would find the department that they had 50 vacancies to fill with nearly quadrupling the amount. That last Years Academy with nearly 1,900 applicants. Only 16 were hired. One would live in san jose. Theres got to be more residence than that, who they are willing and able to be San Jose Police officers. Reporter the auditor says that the problem lies in the department recruiting efforts, knowing that despite that 250,000 a
Search for a wide area looking for clues. The dogs are specially trained in the explosives. They hope that they would find possibly a gun or guns that might have been used in this homicide for the last night. Reporter the buddy of a hiker was discover the body of a hiker was discovered near a popular hiking area in fairfax. He had been shot to death. His dog was also shot. He was in the company sadly of his own dog who was still tied to his hand with a leash. Reporter sources have identified the hiker as 67year old steve carter, a wellknown concert teacher and relationship therapist. We spoke to one relative by phone. Did he encounter someone, someone he knew . He knew, we dont know. Reporter they issued an alert to look out for a 2003 silver volkswagen hatchback similar to this one belonging to carters wife. They believe that it was stolen with the license plate 6ppg662. The trail will be closed until the search is done. Those who bike and hike in the area say they are surprised that
In Police Custody in oregon. Its unclear when theyll be brought back to here. Marin county says they dont know in a murder weapon was recovered. John, we know police can track cell phones, but in this case, tell us about gps on the car. Reporter well, again, marin county investigators are not saying of, but they did say they were able to track the car somehow and they did find a location somewhere in the portland area. They told the police who went out and tracked them for a while, followed them and waited until they found a spot where it was safe to actually apprehend them and then they went and made the arrest. Technology was a big role in all of this. Live in mar ion, thank you, john. A Berkeley Police spent the night searching for a shooter who gunned down a man. They have a person in custody. Weve learned this suspect was also arrested in connection with another shooting in this same area last year. The shootings happened near the corner of russell and california streets in berkel
Us. Lets talk about some of that lightning that was active in the overnight hours. I want to give you a look at what is going on out there this morning. Starting out with storm tracker. This is actually a 12hour time lapse for you here. Notice when the activity rolls through in the overnight hours and moved through the east bay and continued in this direction. Some areas like napa reported. 2 of an inch of rain. The areas around concord, clayton, and fairfield. Getting rain here as well and just this band that rolled through. It was between midnight and 2 in the morning when that lightning fired off. I will remove the radar. You can see a fairly active move through the overnight hours and this system now, moving south over Southern California and backing it up to show you a threehour time lapse. And you can see how its shifted to the south. The center of the system is into the areas around monterey and this is moving out of the way. I again, i think that activity is pretty much done an