Deep dives

Community grieves for Eli Mata'afa: 'I don’t know how we’re going to let him go'

"He always wanted to take the burden off of someone else," one friend said.

Berkeley High refused to let a reporter on campus. That may violate state law, experts say

BUSD's media access policy appears to run "counter to what the law says," said David Snyder, executive director of the First Amendment Coalition.

Berkeley mayor to Cal parents: Safety around campus is 'our top priority'

"It is a serious wake-up call," one UC Berkeley parent told city officials. "The streets of Berkeley are not safe."

Witness to Berkeley shooting: Gunman 'seemed so calm'

"To shoot into a crowd of people like that," she said, "there must have been more than one person involved. Or he was just trying to shoot anybody."

UPDATE: 1 dead, 3 wounded in shooting near UC Berkeley

One of the men was pronounced dead at Highland Hospital in Oakland, The Berkeley Scanner learned shortly before 8 a.m.

'Your pain is ours': Berkeley mourns slain brothers

"I know they wouldn’t like to see us like this," said Josué, a brother of the boys who died. "Everyone should see this as a wake-up call."

Brothers killed at Oakland party were Berkeley High students

A relative identified the brothers as 15-year-old Angel and 17-year-old Jayz in a GoFundMe campaign launched to help the boys' mother.