They were just badmouthing the dodgers colors and stuff like that. We have heard about john, your other buddy, actually he was beaten up badly. My friend joe was also beat up. Reporter what did they do it him . He has a black eye and some stitches under his eye rye right here and he looks bad. Reporter what does he say happened . He was knocked out. He dont remember a whole lot. We reached out to joey and john jon denvers brother. What they are telling friends is they werent the aggressors that in fact they were chased down the street when john denver was murdered. Joe, in fort worth, thank you. Mark kelly has been tracking the investigation and mark, where do things stand right now as far as tree investigation has gone . Reporter San Francisco police have released the second suspect from custody and as for 21yearold Michael Montgomery, he is set to be arraigned next week as claims surface that the stabbing right here on 3rd street was an act of self defense. Less than 48 hours since Jonathan Denver died in a stabbing reports started swirling that the suspect Michael Montgomery claims he had been acting in self defense. San Francisco Police chief greg suhr sat down with our phil matier friday morning. I cap get into the conversation in the investigation but everybody who commits a crime usually has a rationale. Reporter friday, denvers relatives heartbroken by the loss addressed the selfdefense claim. Anything about a chair and hitting him, i thats just i dont know anything about that. Reporter thats not your grandson . No. Reporter you cant envision your grandson throwing a chair at someone . Not at all. John was not a violent person. He was gentle. I think anybody who knew him felt that spirit about him. I find it very hard to believe that he would have initiated this. Reporter San Francisco police are preparing their report for the District Attorneys Office who could get the case today. We have an admission. I mean, they had him down there interviewing him quite a long time. Reporter the fatal stabbing happened here at the intersection of harrison and 3rd following the giants game wednesday night. Police say there was a verbal exchange between the groups over the longstanding dodgers giants rivalry. But both groups were just leaving local bars and police say alcohol played a role too. Probably related more to alcohol than it was to baseball. Reporter this sports rivalry stabbing is an ongoing investigation. Police say witnesses have come forward but still need public help. Two suspects are still out there. Like to have them come forward so that we can interview them and get the full stories. Reporter montgomery is being held tonight in a special section of the jail away from the general population. Live in San Francisco, mark kelly, kpix 5. Authorities say montgomery is under observation for his physical and mental condition. Today we learn more about the events leading up to the murder of a San Francisco state student. Nikhom thephakaysone was arraigned this afternoon accused of killing justin valdez. Prosecutors say just before he shot justin, the suspect waved his gun in front of a restaurant and then stuck the gun in the back of another man but didnt pull the trigger. Then he boarded a muni train where he was openly playing with the weapon. Continue to talk about how important it is to be aware of your surroundings. You can see on the video where there are multiple people paying attention to their cell phones or texting or talking. This individual was brandishing the gun in several locations. No one notices it. At that point they say thephakaysone followed the man off the train and shot him in the back of the the suspect is in the jail ward at San Francisco general. Pretty difficult to believe this used to be two separate vehicles. Its all thats left after a speeding mercedesbenz plowed into a minivan stopped at a traffic light. Police spotted the speeding car on pine street crossing polk around 7 a. M. Before they could turn on the lights and sirens, the car smashed into the minivan and pine and gough and a teenaged boy was killed. Kpix 5 reporter ryan takeo was at the high school where that boy was a student. Ryan. Reporter within the last couple of hours the citys Coroners Office confirmed the name of the victim. He is 16yearold kevin san. Heres a picture of him. He is a student here at lincoln high school. Ive also talked with police in the last couple of hours and says the driver at fault is out of the hospital and detectives are questioning him. As crews cleaned up, investigators tried to find out what happened. This had weight to it. It was serious. Reporter witnesses say the crash sounded more like an explosion. It was like a big and car alarms started going on. Reporter it was bad. Even San Franciscos top cop was stunned. This is as bad as i have seen. It was an ugly crash. Reporter what seemed bad from chopper 5 proved worst at ground level. It killed a 16yearold boy. Kevin san was a junior at Abraham Lincoln high school. Friends say he was involved in a rotc. His mom has lifethreatening injuries. Five others were injured in the fourvehicle crash. Plus say a woman sped uphill on pine street around 7 00. One woman thought the woman was going 80 miles per hour, running red lights and bouncing and and out of traffic. One cop saw her speeding seconds before the crash. The officer saw the vehicle cross polk street which is two blocks away. The car was going so fast they didnt have time to activate their lights and sirens and get within even a block of it before the crash. Reporter the speeding driver hit the minivan at pine and gough. Inside was the teen who died, his mom and sister. Witnesses say the i am impact was so hard the cars flew up in the air. She came and she hit that bumper on that incline. She hit the truck so its like having a jack lift it up. The crash scene and potential crime scene is now cleared up. What isnt clear is what caused the driver to hit at such a highspeed on a city street. The driver at fault is in her 60s. Witnesses say she was grabbing her head while she was in the ambulances. Now she is out of the hospital talking to police. Ryan takeo, kpix 5. The sister of kevin san is in serious condition. A catering van at that same corner was also hit. The three people inside that van were not seriously hurt. Bay area headlines. Another fatal collision this time near clayton. A car plowed into a tree on marsh creek road while trying to evade a sheriffs deputy. One person in the car was killed. The other has serious injuries. No word on the pursuit. Family members mourning the death of a 2yearold girl hit by an suv earlier this week. She died last night at Childrens Hospital in oakland after undergoing multiple surgeries. Police say that she ran into the street after a ball and was struck by that suv. No one has been arrested. A third person died following an earlymorning fire in San Francisco. The fire broke out at a home on 18th avenue near pacheco. Two victims are identified as raymond shea and his 2yearold daughter chloe. A grandfather who was rushed to the hospital died this afternoon. No word yet on how that fire started. In redwood city, firefighters sprayed water on a propane tank to try to keep it cool after it exploded and caught fire this morning. Crews let that propane burn out. That took most of the day. About an hour ago traffic began moving again in the area of he El Camino Real and woodside. Nobody was hurt. His whole life is just gone. Only on 5, how a once promising College Football star ended up behind bars. 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[ male announcer ] the 100 electric nissan leaf. Nissan. Innovation that excites. Now get a 2013 nissan leaf for 199 a month. Who got a college scholarsh ended up in jail. Tonight were taking a look at how in the world a 17year old kid a talented Football Player who got a College Scholarship to end up in jail. Police say the boy and a 22 yearold man robbed a group of casual carpoolers in oaklands rockridge neighborhood on monday. They used guns to steal cell phones, purses and wallets. Kpix 5s da lin asked the boys family, what happened . reporter coaches say he had quick hands and great footwork for his size. 63, 275 pounds. With his frame and his build, it was almost like milk and cookies. It made sense to go together. Reporter dijon led the Mcclymonds High School team to three straight championships including one season undefeated. He got a football scholarship. He had a promising future. He was ecstatic. Every day i talked about my son going to college. Reporter this is him kirk his mom before boarding a plane in july. But things quickly changed after he arrived at the college. He didnt like the school. And his girlfriend is due with their baby in november. A coach at New Mexico Highlands University tells me he left the team in midaugust without explaining. He packed up and flew back to oakland one day. It was against my wishes. It was against everybodys wishes. Reporter without the job and a baby on the way, his mom suspects fast money was the motivation behind mondays robbery. Oakland police say day john and 22yearold held up carpoolers at gunpoint. I apologize to the victims if this is what my son did. I give me most sincerist apology. Reporter even though he lost his father to gun violence when he was a kid, his mom provided a Stable Family structure to him and his younger brothers working at a health clinic. Both grandparents also gave him a strong support system. I wanted him to have a second chance. I dont want his life to be taken away like this. Reporter the family has a hard time understanding what went wrong for a once promising football standout. His mom hopes he will rebound from this and others can learn from it. No way that im going to turn my back on him. And he is loved and he is supported. Reporter in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. Ford doesnt turn 18 until next month but he will be tried as an adult. He faces 10 counts of armed robbery, two counts of attempted armed robbery. The San Jose Police department is getting some help. 40 cadets graduated today from the latest academy. But it will be some time before they are put on the street. First they need to go through about four months of field training. San jose has been dealing with a policing shortage as officers retire or leave for other positions. After the recession, many middleaged workers are finding that in order to get back into the workforce, they need to make a big Career Change. Kpix 5s len ramirez shows us how some people who once had some coveted jobs in Silicon Valley got their careers back on track. Reporter maria ortiz has passion and purpose as a Fitness Instructor and owner of her own super slow zone franchise in san jose. But its not how she started out after a long and lucrative career in the investment and hightech corporate world. She was faced with a choice move to another state or lose her job. Just gave me from a timing perspective the opportunity to say, what is it i really want to do with my life . And should i do something its a little bit more meaningful other than contributing to somebody elses bottom line . Reporter she decided to reinvent herself in middle age. Maria ortiz 2. 0. It was a big jump. It was a big leap of faith. And were still leaping. Were still jumping. So thats a good thing. I got laid off six, seven years ago and decided to do something totally different. Reporter he stopped trying it find another job as a Silicon Valley hightech engineer and moved on to something he truly loved, he founded a dog training and dog walking business in tracy caring for the pets of people with long commutes like he used to have. Took a while to build it up now but im here now and dont have aspirations to go back. Reporter the Silicon ValleyStaffing Company says the radical Career Change is one trend coming out of the recession especially for 50 somethings who have been laid off and arent getting rehired. Some have been willing to take a pay cut to try something new and then kind of swerve from there. So we are seeing some Great Success stories. It takes persistence as with anything. Reporter maria ortiz took a pay cut plus sunk her life savings into her business. Her advice to others is simple. You need to find something that youre passionate about because youre going to live and breathe it. Reporter that passion, she says, is the difference between springing out of bed in the morning to do something meaningful or just going to work. In san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. April 2013 survey shows that just 14 of American Workers are in their dream careers. We had a survey today. Most people said it was beautiful outside. [ laughter ] dream weather spectacular outside four out of five doctors agree today was a nice day. The fifth just took the day off. He didnt respond to the survey. Doctor played 36 holes today, the fifth doctor you enjoyed today. If you didnt and a lot of folks maybe not enjoying that commute into the city, the weather will continue tomorrow. If you couldnt get out today tomorrow will be find oakland touchdown bay bridge blue sky gorgeous evening and we are on a fantastic sunset alert once again from the top of the pyramid to the golden gate, nothing but sunshine. Highs today a few of you did mac it to 80. Livermore 80, napa 80, redwood city close 79, san jose 78. 78 degrees for oakland. 75 for San Francisco. Warm but not record heat because you have to go back just three years. On this date in 2010, it hit 93 degrees in San Francisco. It hit 96 in oakland. So this is the good stuff. That certainly is way too hot for most of us. This is the sweet spot with highs in the 70s. Look at what they are doing up in the mountains. In the sierra they are getting ready for ski season. They had snow over the past weekend. Snow guns are on. Boreal opened up last year october 26. They are adding to the base. Its cold and dry enough in the sierra that they are getting ready for the ski season for your skiing pleasure. Its not snow, it is rainfall. This is a huge storm thats up to or north and west. It will impact us monday. It stretches from the Pacific Northwest back 1200 miles. It is a big storm with lots of moisture flooding concerns to our north. No rainfall for us for the weekend at all. Stays up to the north. Its an old typhoon that hit east asia worked all the way around the pacific and now that moisture is into the northwest. Now, we will see some of that moisture making it down into the bay area by monday morning. Its not going to be much, not as much as last weekend but we have a chance of showers monday after a dry and sunny weekend. Enjoy the weather outside saturday and sunday. Beautiful day tomorrow. Concord up to 84. San jose 81. 71 in the city. Vallejo 82. Napa 82. Mountain view 80 degrees. Right in the sweet spot weather wise. Couple of degrees cooler and cloudier on sunday. Monday slight chance of showers cooler cloudier highs in the 70s. But you miss the sunshine its only gone for a day. Tuesday the sunshine back, next wednesday, thursday and friday more sunshine. Early fall weather has been great. And you know we could use a rain chance every week or so. We got some last weekend. We are getting some monday. Theyre making snow . isnt that crazy . Get ready. Its more than a month to halloween. The snow level is dropping to 6,000 feet. You have to be cold enough and dry enough and the atmosphere is really drying out. So the two things you need ironically when its 80 down here they are already getting it in the sierra. Building up the snowpack. So it is falling. Still ahead, how the biggest gift in National Park history will transform one of the bay areas best known landscapes. Reporter we have food, libations and lots of music. We have it all at the Oakland Museum of california. With mobile weather as the news continues on kpix 5. ,,,,,,, Governor Brown signed the f step toward cleaning up pie0 and 32 jus polluted San Francisco land is a step closer to being revitalized so the warriors can move there. Governor brown signed the First Step Towards cleaning up piers 30 and 32 south of the bay bridge. The bill gives the state Lands Commission permission to approve a proposal by the warriors to privately finance cleanup and restoration of neglected area of the embarcadero. The plan would include construction of a new arena but nothing can start until the warriors have gone through all the necessary reviews. The presidio received a special gift today thanks to the bay areabased company bechtel. Kpix 5 reporter don ford tells us more about whats beh