A Sac State student was killed in 2009 in his dorm room by his roommate. What happened to that roommate?
– Jays, Sac
Quran Muhammed Jones, 21, is in Sacramento County jail, accused of murder in the 2009 beating death of his roommate, Scott Gregory Hawkins, 23. According to Sacramento Superior Court online records, his trial is scheduled to begin Oct. 20.
According to a story in The Bee, Jones pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity in November 2010. He will still undergo a regular trial. If he's convicted, a jury would then have to decide whether he could understand right from wrong and the consequences of his behavior.
What is going on with the molestation charges against the Rio Linda pastor Tom (Tommy) Gene Daniels?
– SassyMommy, Sacramento
Tommy Gene Daniels, 49, remains in Sacramento County jail in lieu of $4.5 million bail. He is charged with committing lewd or lascivious acts with children under the age of 14, and according to Sacramento Superior Court online records, his trial is to begin Oct. 27.
Daniels, a Citrus Heights resident and senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Rio Linda, was arrested Dec. 9, 2010. He and his wife had been employed as foster parents and day-care providers.
The alleged acts took place between 2002 and 2007 and involved girls ranging from 5 to 13 years old, according to court papers and testimony. Daniels has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
There was a murder of a guy I went to high school with at a Valero gas station on Florin Perkins/French and Florin Road over a drug deal gone wrong. It has to have been four to eight years ago. Was the murderer and thief ever caught?
– Wondering in Sacramento
Four men are in state prison for their involvement in the murder of Clifford Thomas Owens, 22, of Sacramento.
According to stories in The Bee, Owens was shot in the head on the evening of July 26, 2005, during a struggle over a backpack at a Valero gas station in the 8400 block of Florin Road.
Owens' assailants, all in their late teens at the time, reportedly lured him to the station with an offer to purchase marijuana from him.
Juries convicted Daniel Perez, the shooter, and Adrian Frank Andrade of murder. Perez, now 23, was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole and is in Kern Valley State Prison in Delano. Andrade, 23, was sentenced to 25 years to life and is in Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City.
Christopher Leo Moyo, 23, and Michael Troy Montano, 25, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter. Moyo is serving an 11-year sentence at Soledad Correctional Training Facility in Soledad. Montano was sentenced to 12 years and is at High Desert State Prison in Susanville.
– Cathy Locke
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