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  • Crime wave compounds bankrupt Vallejo's woes

    02/09/2010 7:37:14 AM PST · by SmithL · 26 replies · 842+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 2/9/10 | Chip Johnson
    Times are tough in Vallejo these days, a city with more street violence than nearby Richmond, and a rapidly shrinking police department. In the last week alone, the city has witnessed two homicides, a knife attack that injured three people, the shooting of an ice-cream vendor and a mob assault on a city employee - an incident captured on video at a local gas station. One of the homicide victims was Matthew Allen Hicks, the father of one of two teens suspected in the attack near the gas station. Hicks was found shot in the head early Monday. "It has...