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Treasured Public Servant Killed In Lafayette Crash

Treasured Public Servant Killed In Lafayette Crash

He worked as a public information officer for another city here in the East Bay.

By Bea Karnes, Patch Staff  | Updated 

LAMORINDA, CA — A bicyclist who was killed Thursday in a collision with a big rig truck in Lamorinda has been identified as 54-year-old Martin Nelis of Pleasant Hill. Nelis died at about 12:30 p.m. in the hit-and-run accident on Reliez Valley Road between Gloria Terrace and Withers Avenue in Lafayette.
Nelis had worked as the public information officer for the city of Pleasant Hill since 2007. He played a leading role in organizing several community events, according to a city statement on his death, including the
summer concert series, Community Service Day, Off the Grid food truck events and programs with the library and local schools.
"Martin was often the first to volunteer for any civic event or meeting, and the last to leave and turn off the lights," the city statement said.
"This is a huge loss for the city," said Mayor Tim Flaherty. "Martin was the quintessential dedicated public servant, and a wonderful member of the community."
Police have interviewed the driver and impounded the truck. They continue to investigate the fatal collision.
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"Our thoughts are with Mr. Nelis' family and the staff and citizens of the city of Pleasant Hill," Lafayette Mayor Don Tatzin said in a statement.
Anyone who witnessed the crash or has any information that would help the investigation is asked to call the Lafayette Police Department at 925-283-3680.

Bay City News contributed to this report; Image via Shutterstock.com
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Lafayette Names Its New Police Chief





Lafayette Hires Chief Christensen

The Hit & Run attempted murder investigation from 2011 vanishes

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City Manager Steven Falk picks the city's replacement for outgoing police chief Mike Hubbard. By J.D. O'Connor, Patch Staff | Mar 16, 2012 4:23 am ET | Updated Mar 16, 2012 4:25 am ET





Lafayette City Manager Steven Falk Thursday announced that Contra Costa County Sheriff's Lieutenant Eric Christensen will replace retiring chief Mike Hubbard, who leaves at the end of this month.

In his announcement, Falk made note of Christensen's qualifications, which include the fact that he:

Holds a BS in Criminal Justice Administration from Cal State Hayward

Spent three years in the U.S. Army, and six in the Army Reserve

Joined the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office in 1991, and has twenty years of local law enforcement experience including:

  • Patrol deputy and detective for the San Ramon Police Department
  • Supervising sergeant for the Oakley Police Department
  • Managed the Sheriff's Department Emergency Services Support Unit for three years
  • Served at the rank of Lieutenant for five years.


During his career, Lt. Christensen has won several Sheriff's Office awards, including the:

Custody Services Officer of the Year (1997)

Patrol Division Deputy of the Year (1999)

"With his extensive background in local law enforcement in suburban communities, Lt. Christensen is well-qualified to serve Lafayette," Falk wrote. "Given our potential for catastrophic wildland fires, mudslides, earthquakes, and
flooding, Christensen's experience in the Emergency Services Support Unit should be valuable to the community."

Lt. Christensen will succeed Lt. Michael Hubbard, effective March 29.



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The Witness Club - The Russia

One of the reasons that each of these persons are witnesses is that Batum trencher was a World Poker Tour player who happened to be coincidentally indicted with the Russians in the Trump Tower Scandal connected to the banks that we're moving money between the United States and Russia.

Don't blame puking for everything Russian or Ukrainian, as the Russian mafia is a strong motivating criminal linked to aspects of the Paul manafort case who operated out of Ukraine, the dirt is everywhere, the conspiracy is and, is transnational.

It's been 17 years since 911, a long American journey that the narrative postulated in front of us for decades is a fairy tale.

If you look at it from the economics, the losses in building 7 to the SEC investigations is tantamount to argue that somebody needs to get rid of documents.

One of the key parts of the fall of Enron is a little-known link to Bennett versus Southern Pacific a lawsuit this blogger lost when his is a little-known link to a 1989 murder covered up by the former district attorney of Contra Costa County pled guilty to a perjury charge casting discredit upon the agency, my arguments of conspiracy long-standing and my long-held suspicion that they were able to do something in 1989 that derailed my case.

this is the county of cold cases unsolved for decades we're families have been burned alive 2 cover up something to intimidate somebody elset to grow Contra Costa County into the trillion-dollar entity is today.

Police officers city attorney's residence constituents children if you get in their way they kill you.

for those of you know something it's time to come forward otherwise you probably get entitled along with the rest of them.

The Florida Connection 

My Florida experience in the 70s with unknown CIA connections and also connections to the Medellin cartel who were operating in Southwest Florida using clandestine CIA strips most notably on Chiquita Parkway much of that documented in a Washington Post article with Revelations that CIA was in control of Punta Gorda, Fort Myers, Sanibel, and Cape Coral.

The Murders of Friends

When all this was underfoot our rag tag party powered group of friends would use Chiquita Parkway for our local drag strip.  But at night it was well known that planes laden with drugs from South America used that same parkway at night. 

There is a George Bush connection from a long-forgotten fight in a bar with a bunch of locals that could not stand the Pensacola Flyboys and now knowing the connections between Chiquita Boulevard useppa Island and the bush Dynasty why not consider George Bush's why not .

His mom attended to Rye Country Day School, as did my mom and our grandparents amazingly were friends.

It's comforting to know that the former president might be connected to a murder conspiracy connected to Richard Morgan his buddy, connected to his father that has been consistently name as a co-conspirator in the Kennedy assassination,.

Another one of my grandfather's clients was the Kennedys who retained Patterson Teele and Dennis located at 120 Broadway New York New York, they building on by Larry Silverstein today a you know that guy that said pull it on Building 7.

Pretty soon I'm going to end up in New York with my camera in front of BlackRock, Silverstein's office and a few other places, I think it's time for me to expose the truth to expose the fact s.

My local law enforcement Representatives coming to Flavors flavor one is the corruption flavor to is the investigators looking at the corruption.

The key link is former Commander George Driscoll who is a resident of Contra Costa County, former employee of Contra Costa district attorney Mark Peterson, and brother to Alicia Driscoll and Uncle to Geneva.

Until I came along nobody knew that the driscolls were connected to the 2004 explosion that killed the welders in Walnut Creek which is connected to Richard Morgan which is connected to Commander and Cheif as in former President George Bush

Can you imagine the complexities of this conspiracy, then explosion in Walnut Creek California, explosion San Bruno California and a virus connected to AT&T formerly SBC services the backbone of the American telecommunication systems about to merge with Time Warner and CNN.

Your CNN merges with AT&T bill never run this story because it incriminates AT &T

I'd rather sleep in a bed of rattlesnakes over dinner with these people who I suspect has the blood of Millions on their hands.

Stop demanding oil, use less let the world live longer.

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Case CIVMS308590 - PETER C. BENNETT VS SOUTHERN PACIF TRANS


The Southern Pacific Murder Connections

This 1987 case was lost in 1989 but was coveredup, by 2004 I was under attack, arson, fires and attempted murder.
The case fell apart on the courthouse steps when my witnesses vanished just bfore trial but in 2001 I learned a key witness was deceased. Floyd Brown jr. life came to an end via murder in Concord Ca.
Below you can learn about factors in case.


Bennett v. Southern Pacific
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DateAction TextDisposition
01/29/1996** FILE ENTERED ON MICROFILM ON 1-29-96
12/03/1990 8:00 AM DEPT. MCJURY TRIAL - LONG CAUSE (NW) - MinutesCOMPLETED
09/20/1990COPY OF ORDER CONSOLIDATING C90-00637 & 308590. FURTHER FILING IN C90-00637
08/22/1990 8:00 AM DEPT. 13MTN TO CONSOLIDATE (P) - MinutesCOMPLETED
08/01/1990 8:00 AM DEPT. 13MTN TO CONSOLIDATE (P)
07/31/1990MTN TO CONSOLIDATE W/ C90-00637 (P) 8-22-90 9AM D-13
07/10/1990NTC OF TSC MEMO
07/10/1990 8:00 AM DEPT. MCJURY TRIAL - LONG CAUSE (NW)
07/10/1990 8:00 AM DEPT. 11MAND. SETT. CONF./TRIAL SETT. CONF. - MinutesCOMPLETED
05/31/1990NOTICE OF MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE /TRIAL SETTING CONFERENCE
05/31/1990 8:00 AM DEPT. 11MAND. SETT. CONF./TRIAL SETT. CONF.
05/29/1990ORDERED TO MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONF. AND TRIAL SETTING CONFERENCE
05/25/1990 8:00 AM DEPT. ADHMINUTE ORDER FROM ARB. DET. HRG. - MinutesCOMPLETED
05/24/1990 8:00 AM DEPT. ADHMINUTE ORDER FROM ARB. DET. HRG.
05/11/1990JOINT AT-ISSUE MEMORANDUM - JURY TRIAL/7-10DAYS
04/18/1990** NOTICE OF LEVY - RECEIVED FROM IRS
01/17/1990NTC OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS OF ATTYS FOR PLTF
12/26/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. DISMTN FOR SANCTIONS (D-SOUTHERN PACIFIC) - MinutesCOMPLETED
12/15/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. DISMTN FOR SANCTIONS (D-SOUTHERN PACIFIC)
12/14/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. DISMTN FOR SANCTIONS (D-SOUTHERN PACIFIC) - MinutesCOMPLETED
12/07/1989PLAINTIFFS SUPPLEMENTAL ANSWERS TO INTERROGS (P ARTIAL) (P)
12/07/1989DECL OF ROBERT B. GALLER (P)
12/07/1989ORDER (P)
12/07/1989MEMO OF PTS & AUTH IN RESPONSE TO DEFDTS MTN FO R SANCTIONS FOR DISOBEDIENCE TO PRIOR CT
11/15/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. DISMTN FOR SANCTIONS (D-SOUTHERN PACIFIC)
11/09/1989DECL OF ROBERT E PATTETSON IN SUPP OF MTN FOR SA NCTS (D) SP
11/09/1989MEMO OF PTS & AUTH IN SUPP OF MTN FOR SANCTS FOR DIKSOBEDIENCE TO PRIOR COURT ORD (D)SP
11/09/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. DISNTC & MTN FOR SANCTS FOR DISOBEDIENCE OF PRIOR C OURT ORD (D)SOUTHERN PACIFIC 12-14-89 9AM
10/30/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. MSTMAND. SETT. CONF./TRIAL SETT. CONF. - MinutesCOMPLETED
10/24/1989SANCTIONS
10/24/1989ORDER TO COMPEL PROD OF DOCUMENTS & ANSWERS TO S UPPLEMENTAL INTERROGATORIES; CONDITIONAL
10/23/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. DISMTN TO COMPEL PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS (D-SOUTHERN PACIFIC) - MinutesCOMPLETED
10/06/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. DISMTN TO COMPEL PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS (D-SOUTHERN PACIFIC)
10/05/1989MEMO OF POINTS & AUTHOS; DECL OF CSL IN SUPPT OF MTN
10/05/1989MTN TO COMPEL PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS ETC (D- SO UTHERN PAICIFIC) 10-23-89 9AM D-13
10/05/1989EX PARTE APPLIC & ORDER SHORTENING TIME (D) 10-2 3-89 9AM D-13
09/20/1989NOTICE OF MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE /TRIAL SETTING CONFERENCE
09/18/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. MSTMAND. SETT. CONF./TRIAL SETT. CONF. - MinutesCOMPLETED
09/15/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. MSTMAND. SETT. CONF./TRIAL SETT. CONF.
06/30/1989NOTICE OF MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE /TRIAL SETTING CONFERENCE
06/30/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. MSTMAND. SETT. CONF./TRIAL SETT. CONF.
06/30/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. ADHMINUTE ORDER FROM ARB. DET. HRG. - MinutesCOMPLETED
06/29/1989ORDERED TO MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONF. AND TRIAL SETTING CONFERENCE
06/29/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. ADHMINUTE ORDER FROM ARB. DET. HRG.
06/21/1989JOINT AT-ISSUE MEMORANDUM - JT/3 WKS
05/01/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. MCJURY TRIAL - LONG (NW) - MinutesCOMPLETED
04/21/1989 8:00 AM DEPT. 03FURTHER SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE - MinutesCOMPLETED
04/11/1989STIP & ORDER REMOVING CASE FROM CIVIL ACTIVE LIS T
04/07/1989SUBST OF ATTY FOR PLNTS.(OLD:.ROBERT GALLER (NE W: PETER C.BENNETT (PRO-PER)
03/15/1989NTC OF LIEN (P)



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MAPS: Locations of Attacks on Pete Bennett

Contra Costa Incident Map (in-production)

Mr. Pete Bennett began following incidents in Contra Costa County in 1978 after first arriving in Walnut Creek CA. Over time Bennett realized something was amiss but lacked resources, time and expertise but most important was there was no internet in 1978.

When Bennett came forward in the murder investigation of Officer Lester Garnier he accidentally collided with several conspiracies leading into the City of Walnut Creek, City of Concord, City of Pittsburg and a long list incidents.  A short list is arson, bombings, explosions, and dead suspects.

The personal starting point is Fall 1978 just after The Jonestown Massacre and a Federal Case involving the early career of US Attorney Robert Muller.






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The San Bruno Explosion as Domestic Terrorism

The Domestic Terrorist of San Bruno

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The Gas Can Man

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Accel-KKR:Motor Vehicle Software Corporation

Motor Vehicle Software Corporation Receives Growth Equity Investment from Accel-KKR

Accel-KKR | Sep 15, 2015

In Partnership with Accel-KKR, MVSC to Accelerate Growth and Expansion of Technology Solutions as National Market Leader

Agoura Hills, CA – September 16, 2015 – Motor Vehicle Software Corporation (MVSC), a next-generation provider of innovative process management software for state government agencies and businesses, announced today a significant growth equity investment from Accel-KKR, a leading technology-focused investment firm. The terms of the investment were not disclosed.
The new partnership with Accel-KKR will provide capital for MVSC to further its investment in strategic initiatives and innovation in state-of-the-art technology for public-private partnerships. MVSC’s President and CEO Don Armstrong and Chairman Kelly Kimball will continue to lead the business, managing all day-today operations.
MVSC’s award-winning DMVdesk provides the most comprehensive, end-to-end automotive registration software on the market. MVSC’s network processes over 1 million transactions annually. As the largest private provider of electronic vehicle registration services in California, the nation’s biggest auto market, it leads the industry through constant innovation, enhanced service offerings, high standards of customer support and a commitment to data security controls.
“When we founded MVSC 10 years ago, we aimed to reinvent the automotive registration process through DMVdesk, a seamless, comprehensive end-to-end electronic vehicle registration solution,” said CEO Don Armstrong. “Today, we not only offer revolutionary vehicle eFiling software, training and support, but we also are the leaders in technological developments that move forward eGovernment solutions in a wide category of industries.”
“Accel-KKR has a long and successful track record of growing technology companies and we look forward to working closely with its senior leadership and advisors as we continue to develop even more impactful technologies,” Chairman Kelly Kimball added. “Our partnership with Accel-KKR provides us the ability to leverage new resources to achieve greater impact in the industry. It will also accelerate our national growth and expansion plans which will, in turn, support our customers even further.”
Accel-KKR will build on its network of partnerships to infuse MVSC with additional proactive growth strategy opportunities.
“MVSC’s leadership and world class organization has always been forward thinking. We are excited to be partnering with the team to help drive significant and expedient national expansion of its technology solutions as a market leader,” said Jason Klein, Managing Director of Accel-KKR.

About Motor Vehicle Software Corporation

Based in Southern California, MVSC is a next generation public-private partner. Its focus is on developing innovative process management solutions in partnership with state government agencies and businesses across the United States. For the past decade, MVSC’s innovative technology and superior processes have transformed and driven market efficiencies. MVSC’s electronic vehicle registration solution, DMVdesk, currently eFiles more registrations in California than any other provider. MVSC also offers its Registration Management Professional (RMP) training program designed for title and registration clerks at all levels. By enriching communication between its business stakeholders and government agencies, MVSC’s business practices help save time, money and resources. For more information, please visit mvscusa.com.

About Accel-KKR

Accel-KKR is a technology-focused investment firm with over $2.5 billion in capital under management. The firm invests primarily in software and IT-enabled businesses well-positioned for topline and bottom line growth. At the core of Accel-KKR’s investment strategy is a commitment to developing strong partnerships with the management teams of its portfolio companies and a focus on building value through significant resources available through the Accel-KKR network. Accel-KKR focuses on middle-market companies and provides a broad range of capital solutions from minority-growth investments to buyouts, recapitalizations, divisional carve-outs and going-private transactions. The firm has offices in Menlo Park, Atlanta and London. For more information, please visit accel-kkr.com.
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NTSB: Malaysia Airlines Flight 17

Marinka Svitlodarsk Avdiivka Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 ( MH17 ) [a] was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over eastern Ukraine , killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. [1]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
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Referring URLS - How DOS, Fake Complaints, and Godaddy Private Registration Works -




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Hello, Daniel Horowitz! now playing Truth and Consequences

Hello, Daniel Horowitz!

There is sealed court order in a court case between Joseph Lynch and Contra Costa County payoff fund where they spend your money to jail your students and kidnapped my sons.  But wait there is more - they killed my relatives in Utah. 
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Prisoner Scott Dyleski

Convicted of killing the wife of CNN Attorney Daniel Horowitz in 2007 but accussed of killing a women much larger and stronger

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The Suicide of Concord City Attorney Mark Coon - The Bennett / Coon Meeting in April 2012

I really liked Mark when we met, as they've said "One of the good guys", he was and his death was tragic, his kids will suffer, his widow will move forward.  The rest of us might survie the Battle of Giant REIT's who crave the barren lands of the Concord Naval Weapons Station.  Sale approved by Donald Rumsfeld who was in San Franciso a month or more after San Bruno Explosion on Sept 6th, 2010. 
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Sadest Tragic Self Destructing Career Moves ever

My personal connection to Wielsch wasn't obvious until someone in Concord reminded me about his fathers Nazi Prison Gaurd past.  Then I remembered how I knew Wielsch's - his father rented shop space a few doors down from shop on Cloverdale Ave Concord CA in 1981.
Butler emerged in the late 80s in the east county when he was an Antioch cop with Wielsch and Tanabe.  I met Officer Loius Lombardi with his gun drawn pointed at my head staying I was dealing drugs.  WTF

Vultures via Culture

One day in 2010 or earlier friends revealed losses in real estate were sealed via a Bankruptcy. Later I learned it was Benny Chetcuti Jr. whose sister was married to Chirs Butler arrested in 2011 for stealing drugs siezed in drug raids via his pal Commander Normon Wielsch.

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Lt. Oberhoffer and Trail of bodies in S.F. flat

The Fake SFPD Murder Reward
The earliest point known to Pete Bennett Lt. David Oberhoffer surfaced when he walked into the Oak Park Blvd. Offices Bennett leased from Oak Partners. Later Bennett learns that General Contractor Jerry Overra of Overra Construction was behind the discounted lease.

The Madmen Who Carry Badges

This a story about a former police officer who rose to the rank of Lieutenant within the ranks of San Franciso Police serving under Mayors, Chiefs of Staff and a long list of unsuspecting dignitaries.
SFPD
The Samantha Mooney Story
Sam was her nickname, she was a hostess on Locust Street Walnut Creek, she easy going, nice, polite but Oberhoffer found her through my business relationships.
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The Dangerous Cop

This former police officer arrived at my business in Jun 2010
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Trail of bodies in S.F. flat

Trail of bodies in S.F. flat
Larry D. Hatfield and Justino Aguila, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
Published 4:00 am, Monday, October 11, 1999

1999-10-11 04:00:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- In a what a veteran police lieutenant described as one of the worst crimes he's ever seen, a 62-year-old airport security guard described by family as "scared of everything" apparently shot and killed three people, two of them San Francisco high school teachers, inside their Ingleside District home and wounded a toddler before taking his own life.

"I've been a cop for 21 years and this is probably one of the top five of the worst ones I've seen," said Lt. David Oberhoffer , platoon commander at Taraval Station , who also is a former investigator on the tough night crime investigations unit and a beat cop in the Inner Mission.

"A whole family wiped out, just like that." (really Dave? you had to say that?)
Police said they had yet to establish a motive for the Sunday afternoon shooting, but relatives of Lorenzo

"Sol" Silva - a gun collector and San Francisco International Airport guard - said he was on medication (THEY ALWAYS SAY THAT) and they had feared for his mental health in recent years.


The Really Weird Part
POETS CORNERS
Pleasant Hill CA

The dead were identified as Noel and Josephine Ridual, both 28, Maria Teresa "Ola" Marquicias, 32, and Silva, the apparent shooter. Riduals' 18-month-old daughter, Jessica, was in critical but stable condition at San Francisco General Hospital from a large-caliber gunshot wound that apparently passed through her body back to front.

Oberhoffer, among the first to arrive at the cream-colored home at 33 De Montfort Ave. after victims' relatives called police at 1:20 p.m. Sunday, said officers found a scene of "incredible carnage."

"When I went inside, there were four bodies on the main floor of the upstairs flat, all within 15 feet of each other," Oberhoffer said. "The baby had already been taken to the hospital. She was sitting in one of those child chairs at the dining room table. She was shot while in the chair. It appeared to be an interrupted dinner scene with the bodies leading to the back bedroom."

The body of Josephine Ridual was face up on the dining room floor, shot in the head. Noel Ridual, who taught math at Abraham Lincoln High School , was dead inside the back bedroom door, also face up and shot in the head. The body of Marquicias, who taught special education at Balboa High, was found face up in the bed in the bedroom. She was believed to have been shot in the chest or head.

Also in the bedroom was Silva's body, "with his head blown off and a gun at his feet," Oberhoffer said. The wound appeared to be self-inflicted, he said.

The apparent murder and suicide weapon was a .357 Magnum revolver found with Silva's body.

Other members of the extended family living in the two-story house said they heard five or six shots. Silva's mother, Maria Silva, went to the second-floor flat, discovered the bodies and called police, as did another relative in the house, police said.

Oberhoffer said the scene inside and outside the house quickly became chaotic as grieving relatives, friends and neighbors converged.

"There were lots of heated emotions and grieving," he said. "Here was a whole family gone. It was bad, more so because of the proximity of family and the youth of the victims."

The entire block of De Montfort Avenue in this working class neighborhood was cordoned off for several hours as investigators worked inside the home. Outside, gawkers lined the streets as family and friends of the dead arrived on the scene.

Family in disbelief

"I can't believe it," said Silva's tearful brother Silvestre, who lives in Hercules but since 1975 has owned the home where the deaths occurred. "My brother was nervous for a long time. I'm not sure what really happened."

Lorenzo Silva, his mother, sister and brother-in-law, Buenventura Lirios , lived in the downstairs unit, while the Riduals and Marquicias rented the flat upstairs.

During the summer, Noel Ridual brought his wife Josephine and daughter Jessica from the Philippines. His wife had been hoping to eventually become a teacher as well, friends said.

Marquicias and Ridual were in the same teaching program, which brings educators from other countries into San Francisco classrooms for a five-year teaching stint. She moved into the Riduals' unit in February.

The Silva family, including Lorenzo Silva's wife, came to San Francisco from the Philippines in 1972. Lorenzo Silva's wife moved back to the Philippines last year for undisclosed reasons.

Silvestre Silva said his brother recently had suffered anxiety attacks. "He was so sick. (At times) he sounded like he was drowning.

"I couldn't believe he would do this. He's not aggressive. He's very cool. I don't know why he did this. The people upstairs were his friends."

For several months, Silvestre Silva - a devout Catholic - tried to persuade his brother to go to a priest who he thought could rescue him from his mental problems.

"He was on medications," Silva said. "It's weird. He was like a guy who was scared of everything."

At the urging of his family, Lorenzo Silva went to the Philippines last year in hopes of finding a healer to alleviate his emotional turmoil. "He went there, but didn't get treatment," Silvestre Silva said.

Relatives said Silva kept several weapons in his flat, but apparently only one gun was used in the slayings. Guards at SFO, where Silva had worked for about 20 years, do not carry weapons. The airport is patrolled by armed members of the San Francisco Police Department 's airport unit. Silva had worked the graveyard shift before returning home Sunday morning.

Airport officials were not available Monday morning to discuss whether they knew of Silva's alleged mental troubles or if he had had any job problems.

Silva apparently did not have any police record. Oberhoffer said a computer search of police records revealed no previous trouble calls to the family's home near City College .

Victims remembered

Shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday, coroner's aides carried out the four bodies as neighbors, family and friends looked on. Throughout the evening friends continued to arrive, wanting to know more about what had taken place.

"Ola was vivacious," said former Balboa High School Dean Fay Vickroy , whom Marquicias lived with when she first arrived from the Philippines in 1998. "She has two kids in the Philippines."

The Vickroys often saw the Riduals on Sundays at St. Emydius Church , about a block away from the De Montfort address.

Lirios, 67, Lorenzo Silva's brother-in-law, was downstairs watching TV with his mother-in-law when he heard about half a dozen gunshots.

"I didn't think it was Lorenzo," Lirios said. "I was scared. I knew they were gunshots. Lorenzo was himself (in the morning). I knew he was taking medications."

Neighbor Michael Gorley, who has lived next door for seven months, said the shots came in two groups about 30 seconds apart.

According to Silva's family and friends, he had been married 35 years but his wife, Luz Silva, recently returned to the Philippines. Family said the couple had been separated for some time.

Diane Alexander said she didn't even look outside when she heard the fire engines racing down the street because there is a station so close to their home she figured they must be going out on a nearby call. When the sirens continued to blare, she looked out the window and knew it was something serious. Shootings happen "over the hill where they sell drugs."

"But here, it's always cool," Alexander said. "It's a good neighborhood." &lt;
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