Deep depression. Eventually, tong retaliated, ending someones life and sending him on a journey through the prison system. Till this day that im still living with the guilt and shame and i think that part of my education and my academic is a transformation of that to ensure that, you know, that other kids dont make the same mistake like i did. While serving his time, he began going to church. There were some a preacher that came to my cell and just share about love and forgiveness. Thats when his whole trajectory shifted. He got his ged, then his associates degree, and was granted parole. He worked as an advocate for the asian prisoner support committee, a Nonprofit Organization helping members of the Aapi Community reenter society. But his immigration status was at stake. Facing deportation because of his felony in 2020, governor gavin newsom granted him a pardon after hearing about his advocacy work and that freed him to pursue Higher Education at cal berkeley through a program calle
Deescalation for apprehension of violent suspects, for Public Safety. When a call for Service Comes into the 911 dispatch center, drone, 56 will be in route to that. A remote pilot determines if the call needs a drone response. Drones are usually deployed for critical or life threatening situations. Officials say they are not allowed to be used for random surveillance. I was the Incident Commander on this incident, fire battalion chief Justin Dillman shows me drone footage taken while responding to a house fire. One of our other battalion chiefs was the person operating the drone that was able to give me real life time intel, the drone is able to show exactly whats on fire. The drones actually looking for hazards, possible hazards that could affect either Public Safety in general or responding personnel. Police say. This is video from a drone response to a call reporting a car break in. First responders say the device is thermal imaging ability pinpointed the location of a suspect. The
A quick check of drive times. Tracy to dublin, we have a minor issue. Youre in the yellow at 51 minutes. Westbound antioch to concord 24 in the yellow as well. And san rafael to San Francisco we just saw that on the golden gate camera that looks good. We have one crash involving a motorcycle in the south bay. Ill talk about that coming up next. Alexis, thank you. Breaking news in the east bay, a big power outage after this tree fell on to power lines overnight in danville on verde mesa drive. Pg e is working to get it restored. The number without power is down to 480. Some street lights may be out so a heads up if youre taking your child to school. The jury in the sierra lamar murder trial will announce whether antolin garciatorres is guilty of murdering her. Lets look at the hall of justice in san jose where the verdict will come down in just a few hours at 9 00. Garciatorres is charged with first degree murder. If found guilty he faces the Death Penalty or life in prison without paro
Max has more on the verdict. Max . Reporter very emotional here at the santa clara courthouse. Gasps heard as the verdict was read from the clerk inside that courtroom. Then in the overflow courtroom, there were loud applause and cheers from the people who were watching that closed circuit video of the proceedings. Now [ inaudible ] murder of sierra lamar, found guilty of three counts of attempted kidnapping of three women in a Safeway Store where he used to work. They talked to us outside the courthouse. Nothing will take away the pain and sorrows we experience every day, and we will continue to experience for the rest of our lives. Truly, weve been praying for the chapter to have this ending, justice. Well obviously never get sierra back, so its not closure, but it is a good first step, and the jury did the right thing. Reporter the search for sierra continues. The prosecution convinced the jury of the guilt without a body, murder weapon, or crime scene. They had dna evidence. Defens
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