Livermore police announced the arrest of a 17-year-old murder suspect as well as the arrest of an adult relative suspected of helping him elude police.
Police officials, in an announcement posted to their Facebook page, said that the principal suspect was arrested with the assistance of Hayward police on Tuesday, April 26 at a Super 8 Motel on Foothill Boulevard in Hayward.
The juvenile suspect was arrested without incident and booked into Alameda County Juvenile Hall on one count of murder, police said.
The Livermore youth was wanted in connection with the shooting death of a 15-year-old female from Richmond on April 15, 2022 on Meritage Common and Collier Canyon Road in Livermore.
Police said the suspect and the victim knew one another. Police declined to give additional information about the murder and subsequent arrest because their investigation is ongoing. The circumstances surrounding her death as well as a motive are also still being determined.
Additionally, on Wednesday, April 27 at 7 p.m., Livermore Police arrested 44-year-old Tomika Cremer of Livermore without incident during a traffic stop on North Canyons Parkway at Collier Canyon Road. Cremer is related to the suspect, according to police. She was arrested for being an accessory after the fact after it was determined Cremer helped the suspect avoid arrest knowing he was wanted for murder.
It’s too bad we no longer use our gas chamber. 108RS
….. becauese nothing stops murder like state sponsored murder.
The citizens of our State have voted multiple times to affirm the death penalty for the most heinous crimes, typically multiple murders, often repeat offenders.
Emperor Newsom, who has lived in the most affluent suburbs with 24 / 7 security, dismantled the gas chamber.
Grateful to Governor Newsom for this. I do not want my state associated with gas chambers.
It surely cures recidivism.
except for those wrongly convicted. Then it’s just abuse of power by interrogators, false confessions after 10 hours of duress, and murder in our name. You can’t repair that.
Agree
david,
And what small infinitesimal percentage of the incarcerated is that”
108RS
Nice. Just the cost of doing business. No more effective than life without parole, but hey, it feeds the feel-good.
Thomas Raynard James…. just released after 32 years in prison after a bad witness identification. I wonder how we’d feel if we found this out after we killed him.
I would feel terrible, but realize that a fair process made the error.
This thread was hi-jacked with the opening post.
Un-hijack it. I’m listening.
The thread wasn’t “hi-jacked” with the opening post. He’s posting an opinion you disagree with, and that will always happen with online commenting.
Our courts may be more fair than most but they are not infallible. You do not have to search long to find cases where innocent people have been confined for decades based on withheld evidence, prejudiced identifications, forced confessions and prosecutorial excess. America likes swift justice and its people can be thirsty for blood. The possibility that we’re jailing and possibly even killing innocent people would be enough to make me think twice about adopting the death penalty in my state.
Unfair prosecutions almost never happen in California. 108RS