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Unfolding Tragedy: Fatal Alameda County Crash Points to Suspects in Manteca Murder

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Police suspect that the deaths of two men in a fiery car crash in Alameda County may be connected to the killing of a woman in Manteca. The sequence of violent events began on Sunday evening when a woman was shot outside a strip mall on West Yosemite Avenue in Manteca. Law enforcement arrived at the scene around 10 p.m. and found the injured woman seeking help in one of the businesses.

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One pleads guilty to Modesto triple murder. Death penalty trial postponed for co-defendants

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At 3:40 a.m. on March 3, 2012, Joseph Luis Jauriqui entered an east Modesto home with orders by a high-ranking member of the Norteño street gang: Kill the 18-year-old woman who lived there and anyone else in the house.

On Monday, Jauriqui pleaded guilty to murdering three people that night: 16-year-old David Siebels, 19-year-old Alyxandria Tellez and 31-year-old Edward Joseph Reinig.

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Coroner identifies man and woman killed in suspected murder-suicide in Merced

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The Merced County Sheriff Coroner’s Office has identified a man and woman killed in a suspected murder-suicide in Merced on Feb. 16 as 51-year-old Melissa Conrad and 55-year-old Matthew Steven Fell, according to Deputy Alexandra Britton.

Police said officers found the woman dead with visible injuries inside a home in the 2400 block of White Fir Court while responding to the residence for a welfare check. 

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Turlock man, booked on suspicion of murder, released after DA declines to file charges

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A Turlock man arrested on suspicion of killing a man whose body was found in a partially burned commercial building this week was released from jail after the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges.

Danny Eule Stevens, 58, was booked into the Stanislaus County Jail on Tuesday but was no longer listed in custody as of Friday morning.

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Turlock man arrested after body found in burned room

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TURLOCK, Calif. — Multiple Stanislaus County agencies helped arrest a Turlock man who allegedly killed another man in an abandoned building, according to Turlock police.

Turlock Police Department officers were called to the area of West Linwood Avenue and Ellerd Drive for a welfare check, Monday. The caller told officers a man may have been assaulted and could be found in an abandoned building.

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Turlock father charged with murder of baby confessed to beating, according to testimony

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The Turlock father of a two-month old girl who died in April told a detective he repeatedly punched the infant in the head because she wouldn’t stop crying, according to testimony in Stanislaus Superior Court.

Following a preliminary hearing Wednesday, Judge Linda McFadden concluded there was enough evidence for Joseph Alexander Rendon, 24, to stand trial on the charges of murder and child abuse causing death.

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