East Palo Alto News

A man was shot and killed in East Palo Alto on Thursday afternoon while standing on a city street, police said.

The supermarket chain Mi Pueblo opened a 35,000-square-foot store in East Palo Alto last Saturday, filling a gaping shopping hole that has existed for three decades in the multicultural city.

Six-year-old Lisa Xavier loved to draw comic strips, collect bugs and ride her pink Barbie bicycle.

An East Palo Alto resident was shot in the leg Thursday night, police said. The 51-year-old man was found with the non-life threatening wound on the 2500 block of Hazelwood Way at about 7:20 p.m., East Palo Alto police Capt.

A ballistics and crime scene reconstruction expert testified for the defense Tuesday that the first of four bullets to strike slain East Palo Alto police Officer Richard May hit the policeman's face, incapacitating him immediately.

Police in East Palo Alto are still looking for the man who apparently shot two people in front of a home Thursday evening.

Police in Menlo Park are still trying to locate a person of interest in Thursday afternoon's hit-and-run crash that killed a 6-year-old girl and seriously injured her mother.

The 21-year-old man found dead in a Redwood City swimming pool last week was a loving son and brother who always gave without reserve, family members said.

East Palo Alto police were called to the new Mi Pueblo grocery store about 8:40 p.m. Saturday, the evening of the same day the store held its grand opening.

Another person has died because of street racing. This time it was an innocent 6-year-old -girl who was traveling in a car that got slammed by a hit-and-run driver.

The 6-year-old Menlo Park girl injured in a hit-and-run accident at the intersection of Willow Road and Bayfront Expressway on Thursday died at 4:05 p.m. today at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, the San Mateo County coroner's office reported.

Two foundations have organized to raise support for public school children in east Menlo Park and East Palo Alto.

Two men were shot Thursday evening in what appeared to be a coordinated attack by two gunmen on a sport utility vehicle parked outside an East Palo Alto home.

Alvarez was the first witness called to the stand by the defense team this morning.

East Palo Alto's only full-service grocery store could open as soon as Saturday pending a final building inspection, store officials said Wednesday.

Menlo Park police said they arrested three people in connection with a disturbance at the British Bankers Club and the subsequent robbery of a 7-Eleven. About 10:35 p.m. Thursday, officers received a report that a customer had thrown a beer bottle at an employee at the British Bankers Club on El Camino Real, police said in a statement.

San Mateo County agents and local police raided an East Palo Alto home, seizing five pounds of cocaine and more than half a pound of methamphetamine and arresting seven people, authorities said.

Menlo Park police arrested three men on Thursday, Nov. 5, in connection with a bottle-throwing incident at the British Bankers Club night club on El Camino Real, and a later robbery at the nearby 7-11 convenience store at Alma Street and Oak Grove Avenue.

For over a year now, renters' rights group Tenants Together has been working with renters, their supporters, labor unions, and city officials in East Palo Alto where Page Mill Properties has been engaged in open conflict with the city and its residents.

A use-of-force expert testified Thursday that slain East Palo Alto police Officer Richard May was following proper protocol when he chased defendant Alberto Alvarez and struck him with a baton.