Crime and Public Safety

Nereida Benitez, 40, and Gary Chadwick Tillman, 54, died while helping at a car crash scene last week on Interstate 15

The collision occurred around 1:30 a.m. on Linda Vista Road near Goshen Street, near the University of San Diego. The pedestrian who was killed was in his 20s and was a USD student.

The crashes occurred throughout the county, including in Spring Valley, San Diego and near Lake Hodges over the past couple of weeks.

Robert Rothwell, 60, of San Diego was found on June 8. His cause and manner of death remain pending.

Family reported William Clayton Miller missing March 18 and investigators later found his unoccupied vehicle parked at Blue Sky Ecological Reserve

Deandre Towers was shot outside the Union Grantville apartment complex on Friday, police said.

No structures were threatened by the Mateo fire, which began in the Quebec training area on the north end of the Marine Corps base.

Sheriff’s detectives and search and rescue volunteers conducted a search Saturday but found “nothing of note.”

Fire in Quebec training area of the Marine Corps base had reached about 650 acres by Monday evening,

San Diego Fire-Rescue has long failed to comply with state law requiring annual safety inspections, a Union-Tribune investigation found last year. Now the agency estimates it completed just 58% this fiscal year.