Price said that the decision Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors to consolidate the recall with the Nov. 5 general election is a win for her campaign, especially given the fact that her detractors pushed hard for supervisors to call a special, stand-alone election.
"We are here today to appreciate that the Board of Supervisors yesterday did the right thing and decided not to invest $20 million of our hard-earned tax dollars for a failed effort to overturn the November 2022 election," she said during a press conference at Oakland's famed Everett & Jones BBQ restaurant near Jack London Square.
Price won the 2022 election with roughly 53 percent of the vote and became the first African American woman to hold the county's top prosecutor job.
Soon after, however, opponents launched a petition drive and ultimately gathered enough signatures to place her name on a recall ballot, alleging that her progressive reform platform was too soft on criminals and led to increasing crime -- making her the first district attorney in the county's history to face a recall.
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A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a fatal shooting in Santa Rosa on Monday night, police said Wednesday.
Diego Kona Kekhuna is accused of the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man outside of a home in the 700 block of Slater Street. Officers responded at 9:09 p.m. Monday to reports of the shooting and arrived to find the victim on the sidewalk, according to Santa Rosa police. He was pronounced dead and his name has not yet been released.
Investigators determined Kekhuna arrived uninvited at a female acquaintance's home and started an argument in front of the home. The male victim then came out of the home and was shot multiple times in the chest, police said.
Kekhuna then allegedly hid the gun in the wheel well of a parked truck and ran away, though detectives eventually recovered the firearm at the scene.
Authorities learned that Kekhuna was hiding at a family member's home in Elk Grove and obtained warrants for his arrest and to search the home. At about 9 a.m. Tuesday, Santa Rosa investigators with the help of Elk Grove police served the warrants and took Kekhuna into custody without incident, police said.
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A pickup truck driver was killed early Wednesday morning following a collision with a tractor that was pulling a sprayer near Linden, the California Highway Patrol said.
CHP officials said a John Deere tractor driven by a 65-year-old Stockton man that was pulling farm equipment at 5:10 a.m. was traveling west on Comstock Road west of Duncan Road at about 25 mph.
At the same time, a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck driven by a 59-year-old man from Lockeford was going west on Comstock Road approaching the rear of the tractor.
For reasons yet to be determined, the two vehicles crashed, causing the pickup truck to overturn, travel off the south roadway edge and stop at the dirt shoulder of Comstock Road.
The Lockeford resident was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
CHP officials said neither of the drivers were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash and investigators haven't determined whether drugs and/or alcohol were factors in the crash.
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San Francisco police on Wednesday confirmed the identity of a man fatally shot in the city's Bayview District late last month and asked for the public's help in solving the case.
Charles "CeCe" Lawrence was found shot by officers who responded at 9:33 p.m. on April 29 to an activation of the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system in the area of Third Street and Quesada Avenue.
Lawrence was taken to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries there.
According to a social media post by the San Francisco Housing Development Corporation -- a nonprofit that seeks to develop affordable housing and foster economic empowerment and revitalization of Bayview-Hunters Point, the Fillmore District and other neighborhoods in San Francisco -- Lawrence "was a contractor for SFHDC for many years, and a force for positivity and light."
San Francisco police have not announced an arrest or released any suspect information in the killing.
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A man was shot and killed in Vallejo on Tuesday, according to police.
Officers responded to the 100 block of Marquette Avenue at about 4:25 p.m. on a report of a shooting. Police found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, police said.
Homicide detectives have taken over the case and the motive and circumstances of the shooting have not been determined. The identity of the deceased man has not yet been released.
This is Vallejo's seventh homicide this year, police said.
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Antioch police are investigating the suspicious death of someone found on a sidewalk Wednesday morning.
Officers responded at 7:19 a.m. to a report of a male on the sidewalk in the 2200 block of Country Hills Drive and arrived to find he had died. The person's cause of death has not been determined and is pending an autopsy from the Contra Costa County Coroner's Office.
Police are asking for the public's help in finding out what might have happened in the case and ask anyone who drove through the area Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning to share dashcam footage if they have it.
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The football team from De La Salle High School in Concord will be traveling overseas to play a game in London this upcoming season, the school announced Wednesday.
De La Salle will play on Oct. 8 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London against the NFL Academy, the pro football league's player development program that opened in 2019 for athletes in the United Kingdom.
Nike is funding the trip for De La Salle's athletes, according to a press release issued by the school Wednesday.
Last season, De La Salle won its 31st straight North Coast Section championship as well as the CIF Division 1-AA Northern California Championship making it to the state championship game for the second year in a row.
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