Free Republic

Moments before she was shot to death, 19-year-old Meleia Willis-Starbuck was heard by witnesses telling a friend on a cellular telephone to "bring the heat," which Berkeley police say was an apparent reference to a gun. The revelation marks a new twist in the tragic July 17 death of the Berkeley native and Dartmouth College student. Berkeley police say Willis-Starbuck was slain moments after making a telephone call to ask for help in an argument she and some friends were having with a group of college-age men near UC Berkeley. Two East Bay men who were longtime friends of Willis-Starbuck...