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# TBS Today, July 19
- URL: https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/07/19/newsletters/tbs-today-july-19/
- Published: 2023-07-19T17:23:23.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-19T17:23:23.000Z
- Description: Scoop: UC skeleton identified.
- Author: Editor's desk
- Tags: Newsletters, #newsletters

A human skeleton that was found beneath an abandoned UC Berkeley building in 2021 belonged to a homicide victim named Steven Lawrence McCreary, authorities announced Wednesday.

The Berkeley Scanner has the scoop.

[UC Berkeley skeleton ID’d as Steven McCreary, homicide victimMcCreary’s family last spoke with him in 2009\. He would have been 37 years old at that time, UCPD said.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/size/w256h256/format/jpeg/2022/09/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/2023/07/Steven-Lawrence-McCreary.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/07/19/uc-berkeley-crime/uc-berkeley-skeleton-identified-homicide-victim-steven-mccreary/)

We also reported early this morning on a bar fight at Kip's that sent a young man to the hospital with a serious head wound.

[Bar fight at Kip’s in Berkeley sends young man to HighlandThe incident initially was reported as a stabbing with multiple victims shortly after midnight Wednesday, Berkeley police said.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/size/w256h256/format/jpeg/2022/09/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/2023/07/IMG_6064.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/07/19/uc-berkeley-crime/berkeley-bar-fight-kips-sends-young-man-highland-hospital/)

### In case you missed it

[DA Pamela Price hits her biggest critic with misdemeanor chargePrice says Butch Ford breached rules of conduct by aiding a defendant. Ford called the claims “political retribution” for his vocal criticism of Price.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/size/w256h256/format/jpeg/2022/09/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/2023/07/BI6A5913.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2023/07/19/courts/da-pamela-price-butch-ford-misdemeanor-case/)

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