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‘An act of pure evil’ kills 15

At Hanukkah fete in Sydney, Australia

Two gunmen opened fire during a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi beach, killing 15 people. including a child, officials said today, in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called an act of antisemitic terrorism.

• 2 dead, 9 wounded in shooting at Brown University — Page 2

The massacre on Saturday at one of Australia’s most popular beaches followed a wave of antisemitic attacks that have roiled the country over the

past year. One gunman, a 50-year-old man, was fatally shot by police. The other shooter, his 24-year-old son, was wounded.

Those killed were aged between 10and 87-years-old, New South Wales Premier Chris Minns told reporters. At least 42 others were being treated at hospitals this morning, several of them in critical condition.

“What we saw yesterday was an act of pure evil, an act of antisemitism, an act of terrorism on our shores in an

Revamp of plaza proposed

LANDSLIDE IN CHILE: A conservative candidate who pledged to reduce crime and revive the economy yesterday won the presidency of Chile in a landslide, beating the ruling Communist by 15 percentage points.

Jose Antonio Kast, the conservative, also promised to deport hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.

SKIP NATO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed willingness to drop Ukraine’s NATO bid in exchange for Western security guarantees. In comments to reporters, Zelenskyy rejected U.S. proposals for Ukraine to cede territory to Russia, calling them unworkable.

FUNERAL REMAINS SUIT: A lawsuit accuses a San Jose mortuary and funeral director of giving a grieving father a bag with his son’s brain erroneously placed in it.

CARIBBEAN NEAR MISS: A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curacao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker, and the

[See THE UPDATE, page 4]

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

A driver who got flat tires after Menlo Park Police left a spike strip out is now asking the city to pay for his new wheels.

Christopher Joel Fitzgerald was driving through the Willow Road and

University Avenue intersection on Oct. 1 at 2:20 a.m. when all four of the tires of his 2019 Ram truck were punctured by a spike strip, according to the claim he submitted to the city. Fitzgerald said the spike strip was left unattended when he drove through it and is now asking for $1,519, according to his claim.

BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ Daily Post Staff Writer

A nonprofit is looking to revamp Lytton Plaza, where Palo Altans have expressed concerns about drug dealing.

The Friends of Palo Alto Parks plans to take action next year to increase the plaza’s popularity.

The goal is to get more people to eat lunch and host more concerts, said Jeny Smith, president of the Friends of the Palo Alto Parks board.

Recently, the plaza hosted a Christmas tree lighting event, and

[See PLAZA, page 19]

That day, Menlo Police were in a short chase of a truck stolen in East Palo Alto, according to the police spokeswoman Nicole Acker. Lisabet Acosta Carbajal, 29, from Phoenix, Ariz., stole her boyfriend’s truck, speeding through residential streets where Menlo Park

[See STRIP, page 19]

LYTTON PLAZA as seen from the corner of University Avenue and Emerson Street in Palo Alto. Daily Post photo by Emily Mibach.

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1 in custody after shooting at Brown

A person of interest was in custody yesterday after a shooting during final exams at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others, though key questions remained unanswered nearly 24 hours after the attack.

The attack Saturday afternoon set off hours of chaos across the Ivy League campus and surrounding Providence, R.I., neighborhoods as hundreds of officers searched for the shooter and urged students and employees to shelter in place. The lockdown, which stretched into the night, was lifted early yesterday, but authorities had not yet released information about a potential motive.

Information changes

Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said yesterday that the person in custody was in their 20s and that no one has been charged yet. Perez, who previously said the person was in their 30s and that no one else was being sought, declined to say whether the detained person had any connection to Brown.

The person was taken into custody at a Hampton Inn hotel in Coventry, R.I., about 20 miles from Providence.

The shooting occurred during one of the busiest moments of the academic calendar, as final exams were underway. Brown canceled all remaining classes, exams, papers and projects for the semester and told students they

could leave campus, underscoring the scale of the disruption and the gravity of the attack.

Students barricaded themselves

As police scoured the area for the shooter, many students remained barricaded in rooms while others hid behind furniture and bookshelves. One video showed students in a library shaking and wincing as they heard loud bangs just before police entered the room to clear the building.

The gunman opened fire inside a classroom in the engineering building, firing more than 40 rounds from a 9 mm handgun. Two handguns were recovered when the person of interest was taken into custody and authorities also found two loaded 30-round magazines. One of the firearms was equipped with a laser sight that projects a dot to aid in targeting.

One student of the nine wounded students had been released from the hospital. Seven others were in critical but stable condition, and one was in critical condition.

Investigators were not immediately sure how the shooter got inside the first-floor classroom at the School of Engineering. Outer doors of the building were unlocked but rooms being used for final exams required badge access.

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Step into a Gatsby-inspired New Year’s Eve with an evening of glamour, dining, and music:

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The 49ers (10-4) came back from a bye week and looked extremely sharp on offense against the overmatched Titans (2-12) by scoring on their first five possessions of a game for the first time since the 2021 season.

Jennings, Kittle get TDs

Purdy threw two touchdown passes to Jauan Jennings, another to George Kittle and the Niners got a TD run from Christian McCaffrey as San Francisco converted its first seven tries on third down.

“For us every single game, with the guys that we have on the field, that’s our standard is to go out to move the ball, put up points, regardless of who we’re playing,” Purdy said. “We know that we’re talented and we have guys across the board — receiver, tight end, running back. For us, that’s always going to be our standard.”

Purdy finished 23 for 30 for 295 yards and the Niners won despite getting only 87 yards from scrimmage from McCaffrey.

pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path. The U.S. is fighting drug smuggling in the area.

BATHROOM ATTACK: A woman changing her infant daughter’s diaper in the bathroom of the Macy’s Herald Square store in New York City was stabbed and injured by another woman in an unprovoked attack, police said. The woman was hospitalized but the baby will be OK.

NOBEL LAUREATE FREED: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has been released from a Belarusian prison after more than four years. He was freed on Saturday as part of a deal with the U.S., which lifted some of the sanctions on Belarus.

CHIEFS ELIMINATED: The Los Angeles Chargers eliminated the Kansas City Chiefs from playoff contention with a 16-13 victory yesterday, with Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes tearing the ACL in his left knee.

SUIT OVER KIRK COMMENT: A teacher in Calabasas, Calif., who posted on Facebook that slain Charlie Kirk was a “propaganda-spewing racist misogynist” who “got what he deserved,” is suing her employer after she was suspended for the online comment.

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Births

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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto:

May 28

Olivia Astudillo Arteaga, a girl

George Russell Cahall, a boy

Rayson Chen, a boy

Connor James Feng, a boy

Lucas Robert Frisvold, a boy

Ashlynn Nicole Gomez Morales, a girl

Vayun Yudhan Joshi, a boy

Vir Kadyan, a boy

Avery Violet Moorehead, a girl

Geo Geoffrey Myong, a boy

May 27

Alan Aldashev, a boy

Kelsey Denise Ayala Hernandez, a girl

Thiago Miguel Cux Cux, a boy

Kenji Young Fargas, a boy

Nova Simone Guardado, a girl

Genesis Lakew, a girl

Zakir Mehkri, a boy

Madison Sofia Miranda Romero, a girl

Caleb Vergara Poltorak, a boy

Eli Vergara Poltorak, a boy

Laura Sales Silva, a girl

Ember Lynn Stevens, a girl

Charlotte Kiana Yousefzadeh, a girl

May 26

Marlie Denise Aguilar Lopez, a girl

Rita Shivani Campbell, a girl

Ailany Mariel Canizalez Barrera, a girl

Ariana Sophia De Leon Rojas, a girl

Frederic Edouard Christophe Dufour, a boy

Eve Silva Hayden, a girl

Liyam Kunjal Joshi, a boy

Kaiser Asem Qandah, a boy

Lawrence Romero Cruz, a boy

Olive Mae Stanislaw, a girl

Emely Giovana Top Hernandez, a girl

Alexander Ayson Trinidad, a boy

Trevor Alexander Vasquez, a boy

Nathanael Nunes Vieira, a boy

Arthur Emmett Wang, a boy

Erin Xu, a girl

Stacy Julieth Zecena Luis, a girl

May 25

Lucas Nathaniel Huerta, a boy

Hana Krichene, a girl

Toprak Olcer, a boy

Isaiah Aguilar Hernandez, a boy

Athena Xenia Botkin, a girl

Evan Janzer Chong, a boy

Timothy Delamare Naumann, a boy

Selena Andrea Hidalgo, a girl

Ali Hadi Saeed Jassani, a boy

Leen Mohamed Siddig Muneer, a girl

Amy Sofia Recillas Mendivil, a girl

Benjamin Liqiu Yang, a boy

Theresa Alina Zalkowitsch, a girl

Don’t overlook this act of generosity

Dave Price

I’ve heard from people who scoffed at the $50,000 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan gave to the Friends of the Palo Alto Parks last week. They complained that this billionaire could have easily made a larger donation. Forbes magazine estimates his net worth at $221 billion. So the complainers said that $50,000 is nothing to him.

Corpus legal fees

Dear Editor: Thank you for your column Nov. 17 calling for San Mateo County to disclose how much they have spent on attorneys in the controversy over former sheriff Christina Corpus. I say ditto, ditto, ditto!

The taxpayers should know how much this mess cost us. As of now, I don’t believe we have been told. How is this transparent? It reminds me of the lack of transparency by our county executive regarding the cost of pandemic relief materials ruined in the rain.

I agree with Editor Dave Price’s point that most of our Board of Supervisors and CEO supported a minority woman seemingly without checking to see if she was competent to hold the job. Meanwhile the so-called “scandals”

I think $50,000 is a significant donation. It will help a nonprofit, volunteer-run group that improves Palo Alto’s parks. This group has a long list of accomplishments. Friends of the Palo Alto Parks was the driving force in raising money for the Magical Bridge in Mitchell Park, a playground for children of all abilities.

Zuckerberg isn’t exactly the

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of her predecessor that are constantly brought up are irrelevant and obsolete.

Beverly May Belmont

Window safety

Dear Editor: The sad story in Wednesday’s Post about the 3-yearold falling from a third floor apartment brings to mind the equally sad story of singer Eric Clapton’s son falling from their New York apartment. It again raises the question about window guards and safety.

Jerry Brozell San Mateo

Vanlording ban

Dear Editor: With respect to Wednesday’s article on the Palo Alto

most beloved person in Palo Alto. His dispute with his neighbors exploded into an expose in the New York Times last August, where many of them complained anonymously about the noise and loss of parking they’ve experienced as he bought up neighboring homes to create a compound.

But underneath it all, Zuckerberg is a human being. What if

City Council banning vanlording, I think we should direct our resources towards finding a way to make RV renting regulated.

People might think getting rid of the RVs will solve the problem, but the unhoused people will just move to other areas. Banning vanlording isn’t a solution, it’s a way to just push them out of Palo Alto so that some other city has to deal with it.

Now that the city has banned RV renting as well as ramped up its RV fines and enforcement, many unhoused people will be put back onto the streets including the people who rely on vanlording as their source of income.

I think the best solution would be to further enforce cleanliness of RV communities or making sure that the people losing their homes would be able to

this donation of $50,000 is Zuckerberg’s way of saying he loves the community as much as other residents? It wouldn’t hurt if Palo Altans showed they were grateful. What do we have to lose? For one thing, it might lead to more philanthropy by this couple in the future.

Editor Dave Price’s column appears on Mondays.

be accommodated instead of put back onto the streets.

San Jose cleaned its largest encampment recently but a lot of people lost their belongings. Only some people were able to be accommodated in motels turned into shelters. We should make sure that the people renting the RVs can be accommodated before their homes and belongings are taken.

Gabriel Lopez Palo Alto

Waymo close call

Dear Editor: I completely agree with Susan Sorenson (post letters 12/8) who described a dangerous Waymo near miss. I had a similar crosswalk experience in downtown Mountain View on Nov. 14. I was walking on Castro Street, crossing High School Way, in

the center of a clearly marked crosswalk. A Waymo turning left from Castro, maneuvered around my back, inches away, at full speed.

I reported this to Waymo and got a form letter back from “Natalie” and no further info because it was “proprietary information.” I also reported it to the DMV.

The California Vehicle Code clearly states pedestrians have the right of way in a crosswalk. Why doesn’t this apply to Waymos?

I read Waymo issued a voluntary software recall for over 3,000 vehicles because they don’t stop for school buses with flashing lights. Yet Waymo claims its vehicles are “confidently assertive.” They are not. They are dangerous and unsafe around pedestrians.

Bonnie Shipper Mountain View

OPINION

Timely detection

Dear Editor: As many as 690,000 Californians are living with Alzheimer’s, yet nearly half are undiagnosed. An early diagnosis would allow families to make informed legal and care decisions, initiate treatment when it is most effective, explore clinical trials, and adopt lifestyle interventions that may slow decline.

As someone with a strong family history of dementia, I understand firsthand the importance of timely detection. My father and both his sisters suffered from it. At 62, I have repeatedly asked my doctor for early screening but continue to be told testing pathways simply do not exist. This is not good enough for families like mine.

Thankfully, Rep. Sam Liccar-

do, D-San Jose, can help change this. The bipartisan Alzheimer’s Screening and Prevention (ASAP) Act (H.R. 6130) would create a Medicare pathway for FDA-approved blood biomarker tests and future detection methods. This would reduce delays, improve patient transitions to specialists, and relieve burden on an already strained healthcare system.

Diagnosing Alzheimer’s earlier saves emotional, financial, and medical cost for families. It could help me better prepare for the future if I too am diagnosed with Alzheimer’s

Please join me and the Alzheimer’s Association in urging Rep. Liccardo to cosponsor the ASAP Act. To get involved, visit alz.org. Nita Sharma Palo Alto

College education’s value is questioned

BY AMY DIPIERRO EdSource

When Harmony Simpson graduated from high school in 2019, she knew she didn’t have the money to attend a fouryear university and that she wanted to avoid debt “like the plague.” She vividly remembers discussing post-high school options with her peers.

“We were talking about how college was essential, but we believed that it was still a scam,” said Simpson, now a student at Santa Monica College.

Simpson decided to enroll anyway. She recalled that consequential decision as one of five panelists discussing the value of higher education — and why so many Americans have lost faith in it — at an EdSource online roundtable Thursday. While acknowledging that long-standing concerns about college debt and newer fears about artificial intelligence deter some prospective college students, the panelists defended the benefits of college, financially and otherwise.

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But they said colleges and universities must do more to help students continue post-secondary education throughout their lives, communicate clear expectations about how much college costs after financial aid, and teach skills like critical thinking for graduates to remain adaptable in a changing economy. Panelists suggested workbased learning, credit for prior learning, California’s new Career Passport, and dual enrollment in high school as some of the efforts aimed at meeting students where they’re at.

Here are some more takeaways from the conversation moderated by EdSource Executive Editor Michelle

Quinn. The hourlong session titled “Degrees of value: How changing attitudes toward college challenge higher education in California,” showed panelists confronting public ambivalence about college that might have been less evident a decade ago.

College usually pays off

Panelists were quick to cite research suggesting that most college degrees have a positive impact on student earnings in the long term.

Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, the group that represents most colleges and universities, said about 40% of students start college but never finish, sometimes taking on debt without reaping the higher earnings that would come with a degree. Those who do graduate, however, earn roughly $1.5 million more during their lifetime than people without a degree, he said.

That makes college “a great investment” for most students, said Su Jin Jez, the CEO of California Competes. “It’s better than stocks or bonds. It’s better than gold. It’s a smart place to put money.”

Students want fast payoff

However, students — especially those living in poverty and needing an immediate way to improve their family’s economic circumstances — may not be able to wait years or decades for their college education to pay dividends, panelists said.

Jez challenged her colleagues to consider how higher education could improve students’ lives right away and get them certificates or degrees faster. She ticked off several strategies — asynchronous online courses, compe-

tency-based education, or even campus housing for adult students with partners and children — that colleges might use to adapt to students’ needs.

The challenge is for colleges to open doors to economic opportunities for prospective students from the moment they set foot on campus. For Simpson, a visit to Santa Monica College’s career services office before she had even enrolled helped her to secure a graphic design internship. That work experience allowed her to learn about the kind of work she hopes to pursue — and set her up to enroll in college classes later on.

Fears of debt

Uncertainty about how much a college education will cost — and whether students will be left paying off loans decades after graduation — continues to fuel the conversation about whether college is a good investment, the roundtable discussion showed.

For some families, a parent’s experience paying off student loans from a degree that isn’t relevant to their work has created doubt that college will benefit their children, said Morgan Nugent, the superintendent of Fall River Joint Unified School District.

Nugent suggested more opportunities for career exploration and dual enrollment in high school so that students “at least explore some of those things that they may be interested in, versus going ahead and going to college, and then taking a look at having that debt

starting to compound on itself.” One too-frequent scenario is when students take a year or two off to work between high school and college, he said, and never go back to school. “We really need to help and communicate the bridge between what that high school experience looks like and then that transition into higher education.”

Mitchell said colleges must do more to communicate to families that the true cost of college tuition is often discounted far below — often half on average — the advertised sticker price thanks to financial aid programs. “We haven’t figured out a way yet to really tell people how much college is going to cost,” he said. “That’s one of the things that we’ve done wrong. It’s one of the things we need to do better at.”

A universal transcript

One way colleges should add value, he said, would be to “double down on something like a universal transcript that allows students to take their learning, assign credit to it, and move it from institution to institution until they find the right moment and the right place to complete.”

Jez said California has made progress in that direction with the idea of a Career Passport, a kind of hybrid between a transcript and a resume aimed at bridging the link between colleges and employers.

EdSource is a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization.

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HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

HURRY! TIME IS RUNNING OUT to catch TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s “Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley,” which must close December 28. Critics are loving this “witty, divine” (Palo Alto Weekly) and “delightful” (BroadwayWorld) play, lauding it as an “absolute must-see” (Broadway with AJ and Sarah). The Mercury News deems it “joyous. TheatreWorks strikes gold.” San Francisco Chronicle says the “charming” holiday sequel to Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” has “all the wit that readers have cherished for 200 years.” Celebrate the holidays with favorite characters and see this Regency romance live onstage at Palo Alto’s Lucie Stern Theatre. Buy your tickets today at theatreworks.org.

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Family finds bear in its crawl space

A family in the Southern California city of Altadena has discovered that a 550-pound black bear has moved into their crawl space.

“I can hear him under there, and it’s really scary. When you hear the banging and crushing and scratching and stuff. He’s not happy,” homeowner Ken Johnson told KABC-TV.

Johnson didn’t know he was hosting a super-sized tourist until he started investigating the damage under his house.

He installed a camera which produced pictures of a tagged black bear who seemed familiar with the neighborhood.

“They actually did trap him and took him way out behind Mount Wilson in January, and that’s when they tagged him. He made it all the way back here,” Johnson said, who named the bear Barry.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife came out for what Johnson calls a “bear-y serious intervention.”

And to make the exit a little sweeter, they brought out a scent spray to tempt even a stubborn bear.

“This is a chemical compound that is highly concentrated and has a very potent smell of caramel and cherries, and that is in an effort to coax the bear out from where it is right now,” Cort Klopping with the CDFW said.

So far, the bear is not budging.

Wildlife officials say he’s reinforcing the crawlspace by pushing dirt and debris like he’s expanding his bear cave for winter.

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Nasal spray has mold, is recalled

A popular nasal spray is being recalled after it was found to contain mold and microbial contamination, the FDA said, leading to “reasonable probability” that “adverse” health problems or “life-threatening infections” are possible.

MediNatura New Mexico issued a voluntary recall on one lot of ReBoost Nasal Spray, claiming the product was found to mold and microbial contamination within one species identified as Achromobacter at levels exceeding specifications. The FDA said there was reasonable probability that potential life-threatening infections would occur with the use of the product in the immu-

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Times shown are when a report was made to police. Information is from police department logs. All of the people named here are innocent until proven guilty in court.

PALO ALTO

TUESDAY

9:47 a.m. — Vandalism, 400 block of Lambert Ave.

9:49 a.m. — Grand theft, 300 block of Waverley St.

11:05 a.m. — Grand theft, 400 block of Kipling St.

11:59 a.m. — Scam, 500 block of Hale St.

12:50 p.m. — Vehicle accident causes injuries, 400 block of Wilton Ave.

1:53 p.m. — Parts and/or accessories stolen from a vehicle, 900 block of Amarillo Ave.

3:21 p.m. — Dorothy Motsenbacher, 45, transient, cited for creating a public nuisance, 1000 block of Corporation Way.

10:21 p.m. — Auto burglary, 400 block of Florence St.

11:20 p.m. — Auto burglary, 500 block of High St.

WEDNESDAY

12:56 a.m. — Jesse Dwayne Perry, 34, transient, arrested for narcotics possession, 400 block of High St.

9:24 a.m. — Auto burglary, 200 block of Hawthorne Ave.

10:02 a.m. — Person taken to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, El Camino.

THURSDAY

1:30 a.m. — Dwayne Anthony Lubin, 51, of Mountain View, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 600 block of E. Meadow Drive.

1:45 a.m. — Erik Peterson, 54, of Palo Alto, arrested for creating a public nuisance, 600 block of E. Meadow Drive.

2:04 a.m. — Basile Kidimeroun, 36, transient, arrested on a warrant, 600 block of E. Meadow Drive.

STANFORD

DEC. 6

7:08 a.m. — Attempt made to steal items from a vehicle, 900 block of Estudillo Road.

9:04 a.m. — Grand theft, 700 block of Campus Drive.

10:21 a.m. — Petty theft, 800 block of Cedro Way.

1:24 p.m. — Bicycle stolen, 600 block of Escondido Road.

DEC. 7

6:14 p.m. — Hate crime vandalism, 900 block of Campus Drive.

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MENLO PARK

FRIDAY

12:28 a.m. — Burglary, 400 block of Pope St.

6:15 a.m. — Vehicle tampering, 100 block of Constitution Drive.

11:40 a.m. — Package and other mail stolen, Riordan Place.

12:29 p.m. — Laptops, AirPods and a wallet stolen, 300 block of Middlefield Road.

1:55 p.m. — Shamond Tshay Laurent, 24, of San Francisco, cited for shoplifting, 500 block of El Camino.

4:50 p.m. — Sunglasses stolen, 700 block of El Camino.

7:57 p.m. — David Manuel Ortega, 38, of Menlo Park, arrested for domestic battery, 1100 block of Windermere Ave.

11:26 p.m. — Battery, 100 block of Constitution Drive.

SATURDAY

2:30 a.m. — Oasis Javier Lopez Flores, 34, of East Palo Alto, arrested for DUI, Willow Road and Newbridge St.

MOUNTAIN VIEW

DEC. 6

2:58 a.m. — Jonathan Simon, 33, arrested for battery, vandalism, theft, possession of narcotics and drug paraphernalia, and resisting police, El Camino and Highway 237.

6:34 a.m. — Roy Williams, 64, of Mountain View, arrested for failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements, El Camino and Castro St.

8:28 a.m. — Vincent Murrieta, 47, of Gilroy, arrested for theft of a vehicle, possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia and on a warrant, 400 block of Del Medio Ave. Danika Andrews, 39, arrested for narcotics possession.

10:05 a.m. — Home burglary, 400 block of Central Ave.

2:29 p.m. — Home burglary, 100 block of Promethean Way.

2:44 p.m. — Shoplifting at CVS, 1041 El Monte Ave.

3:57 p.m. — Jose Marquez Romero, 50, of Mountain View, arrested for domestic battery, damaging or destroying a phone during a domestic incident and on warrants, 2200 block of California St.

4:36 p.m. — Burglary at Park Place Apartments, 851 Church St. DEC. 7

12:24 a.m. — Eloisa Herrera, 50, of Sunnyvale, arrested for DUI, Villa and Bush streets.

1:47 a.m. — Camilla Calderon

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Sanchez, 25, of Palo Alto, arrested for DUI, Shoreline Blvd. and California St.

2:16 a.m. — Battery, Castro and Villa streets.

7:59 a.m. — Athman Adiseshan, 28, of Sunnyvale, arrested for trespassing, California St. and San Antonio Road.

12:32 p.m. — Petty theft at Valero, 495 Moffett Blvd.

5:08 p.m. — Theft at CVS, 2630 W. El Camino.

6:40 p.m. — Home burglary, 900 block of E. El Camino.

9:18 p.m. — Christopher Hughes, 35, transient, arrested on warrants, Escuela Ave. and Latham St.

ATHERTON

FRIDAY

1:39 p.m. — Door of a home damaged, Callado Way.

SATURDAY

2:29 p.m. — Package stolen, Walsh Road.

REDWOOD CITY

THURSDAY

3:30 a.m. — Rodrigo Sican Lopez, 39, arrested for drug possession, theft of someone else’s lost property and on warrants, Seaport Blvd. and E. Bayshore Road. Arrest made by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies.

8:23 a.m. — Catalytic converters stolen from two cars, Circle Road.

10:41 a.m. — Man peeing and exposing himself in the process, El Camino

12:51 p.m. — Resident says her camera caught people dressed as a

utility worker and a delivery driver stealing packages off her porch, Fifth Ave.

1:37 p.m. — License plates stolen from a vehicle, Ulmer Court.

3:38 p.m. — Caller says juveniles are spray-painting on walls at a park. Location not disclosed. The youths are gone when police arrive.

5:37 p.m. — Jose Miguel Boror Sican, 36, arrested on warrants, 3700 block of Farm Hill Blvd.

7:51 p.m. — Man steals five expensive handbags, Woodside Road.

BELMONT

THURSDAY

11 p.m. — Ashley Ann Lopez, 31, cited for drug possession, 500 block of Ralston Ave.

FRIDAY

3:38 p.m. — Salvador de Jesus Rodriguez, 34, arrested on a warrant, 900 block of El Camino.

SATURDAY

8:54 a.m. — Mail stolen from multiple mailboxes, Carlmont Drive.

3 p.m. — Wallet stolen out of a woman’s purse while she’s shopping at Safeway, 1100 El Camino.

CHP

From the Redwood City office of the CHP, which covers the Mid-Peninsula. DEC. 5

Humberto Aniset G. Ayon, 35, arrested for DUI.

Phuong H. Nguyen, 38, arrested for DUI.

Jose Pirir Boch, 42, arrested for bicycling under the influence.

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Real Estate

PALO ALTO

883 Rorke Way, 94303, 6 bedrooms, 3168 square feet, built in 2025, Julian More LLC to Elena and Ruslan Nigmatullin for $5,800,000, closed Nov. 10 (last sale: $500,000, 0214-23)

545 Georgia Ave., 94306, 5 bedrooms, 3769 square feet, built in 2025, ChenSun Living Trust to Xiao Jin for $6,500,000, closed Nov. 10 (last sale: $2,735,000, 08-01-22)

MENLO PARK

957 University Drive,

94025, 3 bedrooms, 1985 square feet, built in 1927, McJunkin Living Trust to Near Downtown MP LLC for $4,600,000, closed Oct. 29 (last sale: $3,175,000, 04-20-18)

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MOUNTAIN VIEW

1963 Rock St. #4, 94043, 3 bedrooms, 1653 square feet, built in 1973, Phelan Living Trust to Richa and Anand Lalwani for $3,495,000, closed Nov. 10

763 Cuesta Drive, 94040, 4 bedrooms, 2170 square feet, built in 2023, GLZ

08 LLC to Davis Trust for $3,500,000, closed Nov. 14

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LOS ALTOS

447 Traverso Ave., 94022, 4 bedrooms, 2166 square feet, built in 1953, Mary and Sandeep Atluri to Tara and Gregory Hirshman for $5,250,000, closed Nov. 14 (last sale: $4,216,000, 06-24-24)

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iconic Australian location, Bondi Beach, that is associated with joy, associated with families gathering, associated with celebrations,” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Monday.

“It is forever tarnished by what has occurred.”

The violence erupted at the end of a summer day when thousands had flocked to Bondi Beach — an icon of Australia’s cultural life — including hundreds gathered for the Chanukah by the Sea event celebrating the start of the eight-day Hanukkah festival.

The festivities included face painting and a petting zoo. Then mayhem erupted.

Chabad, an Orthodox Jewish movement that runs outreach worldwide and sponsors events during major Jewish holidays, identified one of the dead as Rabbi Eli Schlanger, assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi and an organizer of the event.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the death of an Israeli citizen, but gave no further details.

None of the victims have been publicly named by Australian authorities. The gunmen haven’t been officially named either.

Holocaust survivor killed

But stories of the victims began to emerge in local news outlets today. Larisa Kleytman told reporters outside St Vincent’s Hospital that her husband, Alexander Kleytman was among the dead, according to The Australian newspaper.

The couple were both Holocaust survivors.

Police said emergency services were called at about 6:45 p.m., responding to reports of shots being fired. Video by onlookers showed people in bathing suits running from the water as shots rang out.

Separate footage showed two men in black shirts firing with long guns from a footbridge leading to the beach. One dramatic clip broadcast on Australian television showed a man appearing to tackle and disarm one gunman, before pointing the man’s weapon at him, then setting the gun on the ground.

Minns called the man, identified by relatives to Australian media as fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, a “genuine hero.”

Arsen Ostrovsky, a lawyer attending the Hanukkah ceremony with his wife and daughters, was grazed in the head by a bullet. Ostrovsky said he moved from Israel to Australia two weeks ago to work for a Jewish advocacy group.

“What I saw today was pure evil, just an absolute bloodbath. Bodies strewn everywhere,” he told The Associated Press in an email from the hospital. “I never thought would be possible here in Australia.”

Shots fired, then a sprint

Lachlan Moran, 32, from Melbourne, told the AP he was waiting for his family when he heard shots.

“I sprinted as quickly as I could,” Moran said. He said he heard shooting off and on for about five minutes. “Everyone just dropped all their possessions and everything and were running and people were crying and it was just horrible.”

Albanese vowed the violence would be met with “a moment of national unity where Australians across the board will embrace their fellow Australians of Jewish faith.”

Australia, a country of 28 million people, is home to about 117,000 Jews. Antisemitic incidents, including assaults, vandalism, threats and intimidation, surged more than threefold in the country during the year after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and Israel launched a war on Hamas in Gaza in response.

GRIEF — A woman reacts a day after a shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. AP photo.

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many residents attended with hot chocolate in hand, Smith said. The Friends group would like to see that level of attendance at other Lytton Plaza events.

City Council had a discussion in August 2024 about how to improve downtown to help property owners and businesses. During that discussion, Councilman Pat Burt said the drug dealing at Lytton Plaza needs to be addressed since it has a detrimental effect on the community.

Earlier incidents

Two men passed out at the same time at the plaza in 2023 after taking opioids. Resident Jean Paul Coupal said in a previous interview with the Post that Lytton Plaza had become a “drug haven.”

The board is in the early stages of planning, but has expressed interest in upgrading benches and tables and making the parking lot less visible to enhance the plaza’s aesthetic appeal, Friends of Palo Alto Parks board member Roger Smith said.

The board wants more residents and visitors to want to hang out at the plaza and make it more friendly, Roger Smith said.

Roger Smith said he would also like to see the plaza include a space for children to play.

No official plans have been made yet, but the board will be discussing it further next year, Jeny Smith said.

The plaza was redone in 2009 after looking essentially the same since it was developed in the 1960s by the Lytton Savings and Loan company, whose offices were across the street. It was eventually acquired by the city and became the site of historic protests against the Vietnam War as well as a space for concerts, poetry readings and other events.

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Police located her, Acker said. It was a 4.8-mile chase that lasted for 40 minutes, according to District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe. Carbajal was driving at 90 mph with no headlights and ran three red lights and six stop signs until she lost control, Wagstaffe said. The chase ended in an accident with seven other cars in North Fair Oaks, Acker said.

Carbajal was injured and taken to Stanford Hospital. She was booked for car theft, DUI and pursuit,

according to Acker. Carbajal was charged with stealing the truck, avoiding police and a DUI, according to Wagstaffe.

Fitzgerald, who witnessed the pursuit, said he had to get his car towed, according to his claim. There was no warning and no officers in the area to help him after all four of his tires became flat, he wrote.

Authorities are investigating the report of two bodies found in the Los Angeles home owned by famed director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele.

TMZ first broke the news last night, reporting that the Los Angeles Fire Department was called to the home located in the Brentwood neighborhood around 3:30 p.m. PST with a request for medical aid. According to TMZ, authorities found a man, approximately 78, and a woman, approximately 68.

Democracy advocate is found guilty Bodies found in home of Rob Reiner

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court today, which could send him to prison for the rest of his life.

Three government-vetted judges found Lai, 78, guilty of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. He pleaded innocent to all charges.

Lai, 78, was arrested in August 2020 under a Beijing-imposed national security law that was implemented following massive anti-government protests in 2019. During his five years in custody, Lai has been sentenced for several lesser offenses, and appears to have grown more frail and thinner.

Lai’s trial, conducted without a jury, has been closely monitored by the U.S., Britain, the European Union and political observers as a barometer of media freedom and judicial independence in the former British colony, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

Reading from an 855-page verdict, Judge Esther Toh said that Lai had extended a “constant invitation” to the U.S. to help bring down the Chinese government with the excuse of helping Hong Kongers.

Those are the ages of Reiner and his wife.

The Los Angeles Police Department arrived about 10 minutes after LAFD and an investigation into the deaths began.

TV’s ‘Meathead’

Reiner is the son of the late comedian and director Carl Reiner. Rob Reiner made a name for himself with his breakout role as “Meathead” on “All in the Family,” which earned him two Emmy Awards.

He went on to become an acclaimed director, with films like “Stand By Me,” “When Harry Met Sally,” “The Princess Bride,” “Misery,” and “A Few Good Men.”

Reiner and his second wife, Michele, share three children, Jake, Nick, and Romy, and he is also a father via adoption of his older daughter Tracy Reiner from his first marriage to Penny Marshall, famous for her role in “Laverne & Shirley.”

Reiner is a major Democratic political donor, contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars to candidates and causes. He has personally spearheaded numerous state ballot initiative campaigns such as increasing taxes on cigarettes to fund pre-kindergarten programs and working to overturn the ban on gay marriage.

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Home & Garden

Condemned killer wants feast

If you’re on death row, you’re probably not concerned about your diet.

Stacey Humphreys — who is approximately 6-foot-3 and weighs 305 lbs. — has requested a feast for his final meal, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.

He wants beef brisket, pork ribs, a bacon double cheeseburger, French fries, coleslaw, cornbread, buffalo wings, a meat lover’s pan pizza, and vanilla ice cream, all before washing it down with two lemon-lime sodas.

Humphreys is scheduled to die

by lethal injection on Wednesday night, after a judge earlier this week declined his request for a delay. He was convicted for the murders of two real estate agents 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown in 2003. Humphreys cornered Williams and Brown inside their company’s sales office, then forced them to strip naked and hand over their account PINs before shooting them both execution style. He was eventually caught following a high-speed chase with law enforcement through Wisconsin. His appeals were not successful.