SAN DIEGO STATE (Employee KILLED) Mary Louise Shojai

SANTEE — A woman who was stabbed to death in her Santee home on Sunday has been identified as Mary Louise Shojai, a 37-year employee at San Diego State University.

SDSU officials said Wednesday that Shojai, 66, was director of student disability services for several years.

Mary Louise Shojai — Courtesy San Diego State University

Paul Carl Tomasini, 64, a Santee handyman acquainted with Shojai, was found at her home with a stab wound and was arrested hours later on suspicion of murder, sheriff’s officials said.

Investigators are trying to determine whether there was a romantic relationship between the two, as some neighbors had said, sheriff’s Capt. Duncan Fraser said Wednesday.

Shojai was praised on a San Diego State website as a dedicated professional and a gentle, fun-loving person.

“She was an amazing advocate for diversity and inclusion,” Aaron Bruce, SDSU’s chief diversity officer, said on the site. “Every day, Mary worked to insure that the rights of all students were respected and supported.”

SDSU officials said Shojai secured and administered multimillion-dollar grants for disability services. She also was described as an accomplished cellist and organist who was not above playing Bach on kazoo at a recent holiday party.

SAN DIEGO (Woman Killed by border Patrol was in Drug House) She was on probation for drug charges

A woman who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent after hitting him with her car had moments earlier been in an apartment known for drug activity where the agents were trying to arrest a felon, according to new details released by Chula Vista police Tuesday.

Valeria "Munique" Tachiquin Alvarado

Police said Valeria “Munique” Tachiquin Alvarado, 32, struck the agent Friday as she pulled the car away from the curb. A second agent reached into her Honda to remove the keys from the ignition, and she pulled forward and struck the first agent again, this time driving with him on the car’s hood.

The agent, fearing for his life, yelled “Stop!” and then pulled out his gun, firing several rounds to halt the car, officials said.

Alvarado, a married mother of five, was on probation for a 2011 drug-related conviction, police said.

The information from police provides the first detailed look at how the incident unfolded, and aimed to address the questions of family members and residents who doubted the Border Patrol’s initial account.

Several people in the area witnessed parts of the incident, though some of their accounts differed.

The Border Patrol declined to comment Tuesday, citing the ongoing investigation.

According to police, who are leading the investigation into the shooting, a group of plainclothes agents went to an apartment on Moss Street near Oaklawn Avenue shortly before 1 p.m. with an arrest warrant for a felon who had been previously deported and had a history of drug charges.

The unit was known to have prior complaints of drug activity, police Capt. Gary Wedge said.

Alvarado was one of several people inside the apartment when four of the agents approached and identified themselves as law enforcement, Wedge said.

She replied that the man they wanted was in the shower in back, then she brushed past the agents and walked toward her car, Wedge said.

TUCSON Az ( ROBBED Compass BANK ) Left in white Van

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -

The Pima County Sheriff's Department has released photos of a man they say robbed a Compass Bank on Tucson's northwest side yesterday.

According to a news release, the robbery suspect is described as a Hispanic man in his late 20s or early 30s. He had medium-length dark hair, a mustache and was wearing dark sunglasses. He was last seen wearing a gray or brown plaid shirt.

 

He is believed to be the same suspect from other recent bank robberies.

He used a note to demand money from a teller at the Compass Bank at 5085 N. La Canada Blvd., then left with an undisclosed amount of cash.

He left in what is possibly a white van, which was waiting for him when he left the bank.

Anyone who can identify the suspect or has information about the case is urged to call 911 or 88-CRIME.

MEXICO (2 MEN ARRESTED for KILLING BORDER PATROL AGENT) Naco Nicholas Ivie

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MEXICO CITY/PHOENIX (Reuters) - Mexican troops arrested two men on Wednesday suspected of involvement in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot dead in Arizona while responding to a tripped ground sensor, Mexican security officials said.

The agent who died was among three who were patrolling on foot about 5 miles north of the international border when gunfire erupted well before daybreak on Tuesday. A second agent was also wounded while the third, a woman, was unharmed.

The agents involved in the incident had been patrolling in an area near the border town of Naco, well-known as a corridor for smuggling, and the Cochise County Sheriff's department has said that tracks were found heading south after the shooting.

The two suspects detained in Mexico were arrested in a Mexican military operation in the city of Agua Prieta, in Mexico's northern Sonora state, a few miles (km) from the spot where Nicholas Ivie, 30, was shot dead, a Mexican Army officer, who declined to be named, told Reuters.

A Mexican police official in Naco, across the border from the Arizona town of the same name, confirmed the arrests, which occurred in the early hours of Wednesday.

The killing marked the fourth death of a Border Patrol agent in a violent confrontation in Arizona in less than two years and reignited concerns about border security in a state that is already at the forefront of the national immigration debate.

TUCSON Az ( MAN Found shot in CAR DIES at Hospital) Police need publics help

TUCSON - Tucson Police have identified a man that was found shot in a car in midtown Monday, and confirmed that he has succumbed to his injuries and died.
Henry Amado, a 46-year-old Tucson resident, died shortly after his arrival at a local hospital after being found shot in his car in midtown Monday afternoon, TPD officials state in a news release.

On October 1, at about 1:15 p.m., officers responded to the 200 block of East Yavapai Road, located near Stone Ave. and Prince Rd., after a citizen called 911 to report that a male was slumped over the steering wheel of a car in the area. Tucson Fire arrived at the scene first, and while treating him, noticed obvious signs of trauma and transported him to a nearby hospital, police state in the news release.
Detectives from the Homicide Unit confirmed the man suffered from gunshot trauma and collected evidence at the scene, officials state.

TUCSON Az (BUS STOP murder SUSPECT Arrested) 21 yr old BUSTED

 

TUCSON - A 21-year-old man has been charged with one count of 1st degree murder.

Tucson police say Eric Jones shot 41-year-old Robert Chance at a bus stop at Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way Monday.
He ran away after the shooting.
An-off duty officer later saw him driving more than 100 miles per hour.
Jones' vehicle passed a Department of Public Safety Officer, and the DPS Officer stopped him.
The vehicle Jones was driving turned out to be stolen.
Officers also found a handgun on the driver's seat of the vehicle.
The officers were unaware that Jones was the suspect in the earlier homicide.
Through their own investigation, Tucson Police Homicide Detectives identified Jones as the suspect in the homicide Monday.
Detectives also determined the handgun DPS recovered from Jones was the weapon used in the homicide.

TUCSON Az (Man shot at bus stop DIES) The New gotham city

A man was shot at a bus stop Monday afternoon on Broadway at Alvernon Way, and later died at UA Medical Center-University Campus.
A 911 caller reported shortly after 3 p.m. that a man shot another man at the bus stop at the southwest corner of the intersection, said Sgt. Chris Widmer, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
Police K-9 units and a police helicopter searched the surrounding neighborhood for the shooter into the evening, but did not find him, Widmer said.

The shooter was described as an African-American man, 6 feet 1 inch tall, with a thin build. He is thought to be 18 to 25 years old, and was wearing black clothing and a blue shirt that he possibly took off while running from the bus stop, Widmer said.
He was last seen running southeast into a neighborhood, Widmer said.
Witnesses said the shooter was nearly struck by a work truck traveling north on Alvernon when he ran in front of the truck while fleeing. Detectives would like to talk to the truck's driver, and any other witnesses who saw the man running away from the bus stop, Widmer said.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME