Lauren Keene

3 weeks ago | davisenterprise.com | Lauren Keene

WOODLAND — The Carlos Reales Dominguez stabbing trial is not a whodunit, attorneys on both sides of the Davis homicide case agreed during their closing arguments Friday in Yolo Superior Court. Dominguez killed David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm and stabbed Kimberlee Guillory using a deadly weapon, and he suffered from schizophrenia at the time, the lawyers concurred.

3 weeks ago | davisenterprise.com | Lauren Keene

A tractor sparked a grass fire Wednesday in a vacant Mace Ranch field, worrying some neighbors as flames approached their residential fence lines. Davis Fire Department Battalion Chief Paul Swanson estimated the 11 a.m. blaze inside the Mace Boulevard curve scorched about an acre before firefighters brought it under control. Mace Ranch resident Sanjai Parikh said he was driving into his neighborhood when he noticed billowing smoke and fire engines attempting to access the fire from Mace Boulevard.

3 weeks ago | davisenterprise.com | Lauren Keene

A man who set a series of trash fires in a Davis residential neighborhood last year is headed to state prison, the result of a plea agreement reached in his court case last week. Charles Lindsey Spurlock, 45, pleaded no contest to two felony arson counts and admitted to four case enhancements for prior convictions and other aggravating circumstances, according to online records from his April 29 Yolo Superior Court plea deal.

3 weeks ago | davisenterprise.com | Lauren Keene

Davis police arrested a 65-year-old local man Tuesday on suspicion of possessing a firearm considered an assault weapon under California law. It was Howard Dwayne Shaw’s second arrest in just over a week’s time, the first occurring on May 26 when the Davis Police Department’s Intelligence-Led Policing Unit detained him for allegedly possessing a switchblade and fentanyl for sale.

3 weeks ago | davisenterprise.com | Lauren Keene

WOODLAND — Although he didn’t realize it at the time, Carlos Reales Dominguez’s first symptoms of schizophrenia surfaced in the spring of his freshman year at UC Davis. The first was at his girlfriend Caley Gallardo’s dorm, where Dominguez said he “saw a shadow figure in the corner of the room” that he perceived to be the devil. He wasn’t sure whether he was awake or asleep at the time.