The month of May is about to close and here's the Bay Area news you need to know.
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Last week, San Mateo police arrested a suspect in connection with a fatal stabbing that occurred at a San Mateo County Transit District bus stop on May 14.
Police announced Monday, May 23, that the suspect is Ricardo Bibbs, a 56-year-old man described as a transient. Bibbs had previously been convicted twice of stabbing a person in two separate incidents, police said.
Persons with tips or information about the case may call San Mateo Police at (650) 522-7700 or may contact Detective Sgt. Paul Pak at (650) 522-7660 or pak@cityofsanmateo.org. Individuals may also submit anonymous tips at. https://tinyurl.com/SMPDTips or by calling (650) 522-7676.
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A shooting in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood early Tuesday morning left a 52-year-old man wounded, police said.
The shooting was reported at 1:44 a.m. in the area of 10th and Harrison streets, where the victim said a vehicle pulled up near him and someone from inside shot him before fleeing.
The victim was taken to a hospital to receive treatment for his injuries, which are not considered life-threatening, police said.
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A 37-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries in a shooting in the Civic Center area of San Francisco early Tuesday morning.
Officers responded around 2:10 a.m. to the reported shooting in the area of Hyde and Fulton Streets and found the victim, who was taken to a hospital and could not provide any details about how he was shot.
Authorities asked anyone with information about the case to call the Police Department's tip line at (415) 575-4444 or send a text message to TIP411 with "SFPD" at the beginning of the message.
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East Palo Alto police announced Tuesday, May 24, of the arrest of two people in connection with the fatal shooting at Jack Farrell Park last week, but said neither is considered a homicide suspect.
Acting Police Chief Jeff Liu said there were many people in the park at the time, including several children, and that the shooting appeared to involve two pairs of people shooting at each other, with 33 shots fired in total.
The two people arrested were detained on outstanding warrants and their names will not be released pending the ongoing investigation.
East Palo Alto police are encouraging witnesses to the shooting to come forward and help solve the case. In addition, the group Mothers Against Murder is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the murder suspect.
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East Palo Alto police revealed the identity of a man who died Monday night after his vehicle struck a tree in the 2300 block of University Avenue at about 8:02 p.m.
Jesus Belmonte Castro was driving westbound on University at Bay Road at a high rate of speed, according to Acting Chief Jeff Liu, and then lost control of his vehicle and struck a tree, killing him.
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In the June 7 election, San Mateo County voters will decide on six measures aimed at raising revenue for local school districts: two parcel tax proposals and four measures that would authorize school districts to issue bonds, raising millions annually to fund tuition and facility improvements for local schools.
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The San Francisco Sheriff's Office announced plans this week to create identification badges for its deputies to let the public know if they are fluent in a language other than English.
Identification badges are in the works for more than 100 deputies to indicate that they speak Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish or Filipino, according to the Sheriff's Office, which said they are the first emergency responders in the city to launch such a program.
Officers must have bilingual certification through the city's Human Resources Department to receive the name tag, and other languages such as Vietnamese, Russian and Arabic will be included in the future, sheriff's officials said.
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Twitter agreed to pay a $150 million civil penalty in a settlement with the federal government that requires the social networking giant to do more than just complain about protecting users' private data, according to an announcement Wednesday by Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission officials.
The settlement will resolve allegations that Twitter violated the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act) and an administrative order issued by the same agency in March 2011 by misrepresenting how it would make use of users' nonpublic contact information.
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Adding to the drama surrounding Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and Twitter, the social networking platform he may or may not be buying, on Wednesday a San Francisco law firm filed a class action lawsuit against Musk accusing him of intentionally driving down Twitter's stock price through a series of false and misleading statements.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in San Francisco on behalf of Twitter shareholders and describes in detail the history of Musk's intermittent plan to buy Twitter.
According to the plaintiffs, Tesla Inc. chief executive Musk planned to finance the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter by pledging some of his Tesla holdings in order to borrow the purchase price.
However, the drop in Tesla's stock price allegedly caught Musk in a financial bind and he responded by trying to drive Twitter's price down so he could get out of the deal or buy the company for less. The lawsuit seeks to hold Musk accountable for the loss in Twitter's stock value due to the alleged manipulative behavior.
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With information from Bay City News
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