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Gun, Taser Mix-Ups Were Blamed in These 13 U.S. Police Shootings Since 2001 On 4/13/21 at 12:52 PM EDT Duante Wright became at least the fourth person in the U.S. to be killed by a police officer who mistakenly fired a gun instead of their Taser. Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center Police Department officer Kimberly Potter, 48, after he was stopped for a traffic violation on Sunday. Read more At a press conference on Monday, Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said he believed that Potter had meant to use a Taser on Wright. He said: "It is my belief that t...

Michaela Garecht's mother reacts to arrest of suspect in 1988 Hayward kidnapping of 9-year-old daughter FacebookTwitterEmail 1of7 Sharon Murch at the Hayward police station in Hayward, Calif., at a press conference about her missing daughter, Michaela Joy Garecht, on Thursday, October 11, 2012. Her daughter was abducted November 19. 1988 at the age of nine. Hayward police were recently given a bone from the Shermantine/Herzog case which is being tested for mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mother to child, to identify if it might be Michaela.Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2012Show MoreShow...

After 32 years of questions, arrest made in murder of Michaela Garecht FacebookTwitterEmail Michaela Garecht, 9, went missing from outside a Hayward shop in 1988.Wikimedia Commons Police have made an arrest in one of the Bay Area's most high-profile and terrifying kidnapping cases. Michaela Garecht was nine years old when she and a friend rode their scooters to Rainbow Market, two blocks from Michaela's home in Hayward, on Nov. 19, 1988. After making purchases of snacks and soda, the girls realized Michaela's scooter, left near the market door, was missing. Michaela spotted it lying in the pa...