- Daniel Dennard recently moved to the East Bay and had an S.F. construction job.
Posted on 07/21/2008 2:57:51 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- A reputed gang member - who moved out of San Francisco after beating a murder charge when the star witness against him was slain - was ambushed and shot to death Saturday night when he returned to the city for work at a construction site in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood, authorities said.
Daniel "Dango" Dennard, 23, of Antioch was attacked as he was stopped on his motorcycle at a red light on Bayshore Boulevard at Industrial Street, a busy roadway near the intersection of Highway 101 and Interstate 280.
San Francisco homicide Inspector John Cleary said Sunday that Dennard had just finished his shift at a job site two blocks away when he was gunned down at 7:20 p.m. A man got out of a car that apparently had been following Dennard, walked up and fired four times, Cleary said.
Dennard, who grew up in the neighborhood but recently moved to the East Bay with his girlfriend and child, was involved in one of the most high-profile murder cases in San Francisco in recent memory but escaped prosecution when the key witness was slain.
In late 2005, he was indicted on charges of slaying 20-year-old Arkeylius Collins and, in the same attack, the attempted murder of basketball standout Terrell Rollins. Rollins survived the attack and agreed to help prosecutors. He said at the time he was helping them because of what happened to him, which left him unable to play basketball, and because of what happened to Collins. When he appeared before a San Francisco grand jury that was investigating the case, Rollins identified Dennard as one of the gunmen in that attack.
As the key witness against Dennard Rollins was put under witness protection....
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
- Daniel Dennard recently moved to the East Bay and had an S.F. construction job.
I love a happy ending!
“If you’re going to San Fran-cisco, be sure to wear, some flowers in your hair....You’re gonna find, some happy people there..”
” I left my gang-banger in San Francisco”.
Doesn’t San Francisco have strong anti-gun laws? How’s that working out for this now former banger?
I guess, when all is said and done, you reap what you sow.
From the comments on SFGate, this guy was a well-known bad actor. This time, the streets took out the trash that DA Kamala Harris refuses to.
Sorry, bro’.
What comes around.............
You love a happy ending -- this is not a Happy ending, since he was trying to be a productive citizen and not a gang member.
Impossible. Firearms are illegal in San Francisco.
What great news! I love Mondays!!!
You love a happy ending — this is not a Happy ending, since he was trying to be a productive citizen and not a gang member.
He probably murdered someone, and as a result a brave witness also gets murdered. It was way too late for him to become a productive citizen. The debt he owed to society required his own life twice over. He is now half way to breaking even. Once that is out of the way he can become productive.
Carl Johnson’s still cleaning up the streets of San Fierro.
He was a killer. He killed twice, the original victim and then the witness against him(whom he had already tried to kill). There is no telling how many others he was responsible for killing, we will never know. This guy could not make up for that no matter how "productive" a "member of society" he became. He should have died in the gas chamber for his deeds, now he is dead and good riddance.
Singing boo hoo… the rap version.
Dennard's attorney, who defended him in the Collins homicide and other cases, said Dennard was working as a construction apprentice and moved away from the city to start his family. (Without benefit of marriage, though.)
"It's very sad. Daniel was making something of his life," said Floyd Andrews, a former San Francisco homicide prosecutor. "He was one of my ... success stories. (I hate to think what he calls a 'failure'.) I heard he was going to work, working every day, staying out of San Francisco. He was doing good."
Steve Vender, a private investigator who has helped in Dennard's defense, said the young man had come in for an appointment with his probation officer within the last few weeks. (They say that like it wasn't his habit to keep appointments.) He was wearing his construction clothes and hard hat, Vender said.
Layta, Playa.
If that’s not a happy ending, why am I smiling?
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