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Willie McCoy, also known as Willie Bo, was a 20 year old African-American rapper, killed by six police officers in Vallejo, California, on February 9, 2019.The officers had responded to a 911 call of an unconscious man in a vehicle in a Taco Bell drive through, when they found McCoy, with a .40 caliber handgun (later determined to be stolen from Oregon) with an extended magazine on his lap.
Whitney, who had worked for the Vallejo Police Department since 2000 and was promoted to the rank of captain in 2015, also reported what he maintained were other unlawful practices and ...
Massacre of Wintu people in retaliation for killing of Col. John Anderson [227] 4: Yontoket massacre: Yontocket: 1853: 400–500: Massacre of Tolowa people in northwestern California [227] 5: Mendocino War: Mendocino County: 1859–1860: 283+ White settlers known as the "Eel River Rangers" killed at least 283 Indian men [227] 6: 1860 Wiyot ...
In 2019, Vallejo 109 gunpoint robberies and 142 thefts from vehicles were reported. In 2023, 182 gunpoint robberies and 1,201 thefts from vehicles were reported, respective increases of 76% and 834%.
Genea Brice, first poet laureate of Vallejo [3] Ernest J. Gaines [1] Gregory Allen Howard; Charles Jordan; Mark Joseph; D.L. Lang, second poet laureate of Vallejo [3] Dwayne Parish, first poet laureate of Richmond, California, grew up in Vallejo [4] Norman Partridge; Nina Serrano, poet, filmmaker, KPFA radio host; Helen Sewell; Keely Shaye Smith
The strong winds are allowing fire embers to travel with the smoke over a range of two and a half miles, as more than 14,000 people remain under evacuation orders, the fire department said.
Vallejo (/ v ə ˈ l eɪ (h) oʊ / və-LAY-(h)oh; Spanish:) is a city in Solano County, California and the second largest city in the North Bay region of the Bay Area.Located on the shores of San Pablo Bay, the city had a population of 126,090 at the 2020 census. [7]
The Mountain fire could have been a second coming of the 2017 Thomas or 2018 Woolsey fires, but luckily it didn't pan out that way, said Mark Lorenzen, the Ventura County Fire Department chief ...