Crime and Public Safety

Crash happened in East County

The wreck occurred on El Monte Road at El Cajon Mountain Truck Trail about 11 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.

Fasil Gashaw Kebede, 68, died after he was involved in an altercation on Buffum Drive near Pear Tree Lane Saturday evening

The 35-year-old man allegedly set a palm tree on fire using a small lighter Monday evening

San Diego police arrested a 29-year-old man early Tuesday on suspicion of fatally stabbing his younger brother in a Point Loma market’s parking lot.

Three of the crashes were head-on collisions, according to investigators.

Students and an official at High Tech High raised concerns about Caleb Vazquez’s behavior to police more than a year before shooting, court records indicate

The county official is suspected of fatally crashing her car into a woman on the sidewalk Friday before fleeing, police and sheriff’s records show.

A woman who went to her mother’s house to deal with a ‘problem tenant’ went missing and was later found dead in a nearby Chula Vista park

Kerry Sheron, 69, the owner of the “Trump House” who was attacked last week in front of his home, died at a hospital Sunday night