Alex Gecan
Freelance Reporter at Freelance
Senior Public Safety Reporter at Berkeleyside
Senior reporter, public safety, @berkeleyside. Formerly @marinij, @AsburyParkPress, @ConnPost, @StamAdvocate, @Middletownpress and @NewOrleansMag.
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1 week ago |
berkeleyside.org | Alex Gecan
New video and information released by Berkeley police paint a clearer picture of the April 13 standoff that ended in an officer shooting a man who at first refused to open the door of his apartment during a domestic violence investigation.
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1 week ago |
berkeleyside.org | Alex Gecan
University police are seeking three people after finding a fourth stabbed several times near the Lawrence Hall of Science on Centennial Drive. University of California Police Department officers went to the science center around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, where officers “found the victim with multiple stab wounds,” according to a WarnMe email alert from UC Berkeley.
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2 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Alex Gecan
After four years of on-and-off road closures in Northwest Berkeley, Caltrans and the Alameda County Transportation Commission have declared construction work finished on the Interstate 80-Gilman Street interchange. The $100 million overhaul of the once chaotic and widely hated interchange includes two new roundabouts, one on either side of the interstate, feeding traffic onto and off of Eastshore Highway, Gilman, West Frontage Road and the interstate itself.
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2 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Alex Gecan
Bay Area Holocaust survivors Eva Lukacs and Helen Fixler tell their stories of perseverance in a new video prepared for Berkeley’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Now 80 years on from the end of World War II, the number of survivors is dwindling lower and lower. “Hearing from survivors themselves has proven to be the most effective way to educate people, and unfortunately, we have very few years left,” said former Councilmember Susan Wengraf, who helped organize the commemoration.
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3 weeks ago |
berkeleyside.org | Alex Gecan
Beset by slow recruitment and lagging response times, and with no dedicated funding available to keep its own local mobile crisis response team up and running, Berkeley will begin relying on Alameda County for behavioral health calls later this year. City Manager Paul Buddenhagen announced in a memo Tuesday that Berkeley “is transitioning the services offered” by the Specialized Care Unit (SCU) to Alameda County Behavioral Health Services.
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