Update to the Murderous Friday-3 people Murdered in seven hour period!

This last weekend was a violent weekend, and kept the police busy with four homicides, three of them occurring in a seven hour period on Friday 08/07/2010.
According to the Record a 25yro male was arrested for the shooting death of Michael Allen Williams,33,; Fernando Valdez was arrested around 1435 hrs in the 5300 block of Arch road on Monday 08/09/2010 by the Stockton Police Department.


According to the Police Williams was driving with his Mother around 2250 hours near Arch and Newcastle Roads, when shots were fired at Williams car. William's Mother stated that her son tried to flee the area, but that the a car pulled up next to them and continued to fire shots at Williams and his Mother. There was no motive given for the shooting death of Williams.

Three juveniles and one adult identified as Michael Muy was arrested in connection with the beating death of 14 yro Rin Ros. The the suspects in the beating of Ros were all arrested on Saturday. According to the Police; Muy and the two juveniles attacked Ros around 1630 hours near Larcom Lane and Morely, beating him so badly that he died.


Around the same time that Ros was killed, a 36 yro man was found stabbed in the 800 block of South Lincoln St. He was taken to the San Joaquin County General Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The victim was identified as Frank Joseph Hernandez, 36, who had been living at the Stockton Homeless Shelter. No arrest, or motives, or leads were discussed in the Article written by the Record.


According to the Record 30 homicides have occurred this year(2010) already; Last year's(2009) murder total for the whole year was 35.


According to LocalCrimeNews.com the City of Stockton is third on the list of the most arrest reports, San Diego is second, and Los Angeles is first. I cannot say how accurate the information is, but the site also provides statistical graphs, and free arrest records, and I matched the arrest records with the "Whose in Custody", information on the Sheriffs website, and they matched; So it appears that the site has up to date reported statistical information.

Supplement Ros Murder: According to the Associated Press article ;Four teens were arrested in the beating death of Ros, only identifying Muy. Apparently Ros was pulled from a car, near Panella Park, and was beaten by up to nine people witness(es) reported. When the call was made to 911 Ros was already in Cardiac arrest.