shaffer was found dead in san quentin prison. at the time of the sentencing, shaffer apologized. it's reported that an inmate stabbed shaffer on monday morning. shaffer was serving time for killing 9-year-old melanie osheroff. we spoke to aaron, her father, and he told us that police came to the door with the news. >> instead of him being in prison and serving time, he's like dead. we sort of felt that he got out the easy way. >> reporter: sosheroff said he would rather have had shaffer serve the entire investigation. >> we just continue on with our lives. that's what we're trying to do this whole time. just continue on with our lives. i mean, shaffer is -- edward shaffer himself is removed from the picture now. >> reporter: we're live at san quentin state prison this afternoon. tonight you will hear from their spokesman. he will discuss the investigation into edward shaffer's death and the person prison officials label a prime suspect. 31-year-old frank sosa. we'll sit down with aaron and i find out how he's coping with the investigation. >> okay. thank you, jade. >>> ever since

have now identified the suspect who they say stabbed and killed a convicted drunk driver in san quentin prison. edwin schaffer plowed his motorcycle into two people, a little girl and father. the girl lost her life. schaffer was stabbed by another inmate with a homemade weapon. schaffer's motr is blaming local authorities. she claims police and sherifs deputies often told her son they would make sure he was attacked in prison. >> the city of belmo will consider ba any massage permits for a year. city attorn said that 80% of the massage parlors are suspected of prostitution. 30% graduated from will le jitd ma the schools. >> it's called the biggest military lk in american history. president obama is reacting to the 92,000 pages that was leaked online. >> and can dudley do what hayward couldn. the americanhat is taking the top post at bp as they start the final fix for the massive gu oil leak. >>> president obama says he is concerned about the leak of sensitive documents about the afghistan war but doesn't believe the information will be harml to the overall effort. >> the fact is, these documen

have now identified the suspect who they say stabbed and killed a convicted drunk driver in san quentin prison. edwin schaffer plowed his motorcycle into two people, a little girl and father. the girl lost her life. schaffer was stabbed by another inmate with a homemade weapon. schaffer's mother is blaming local authorities. she claims police and sheriff's deputies often told her son they would make sure he was attacked in prison. >> the city of belmont will consider ban any massage permits for a year. city attorney said that 80% of the massage parlors are suspected of prostitution. 30% graduated from i will le jitd ma the schools. >> it's called the biggest military leak in american history. president obama is reacting to the 92,000 pages that was leaked online. >> and can dudley do what hayward couldn't. the american that is taking the top post at bp as they start the [ female announcer ] why watch regular tv when you can experience the next generation of television service? at&t u-verse tv. a better tv experience at a really great price. hurry and take advantage of our summer sale. order to

san quentin and monday he was stabbed to death by another inmate. he died at marin general. kron 4 tells what happened. >> happen here at san quentin prison in one of their exercise yards on monday morning. prison officials say average schaefer was stabbed multiple times and this is the main suspect 31 year-old the rank and the sousa. he has an extensive criminal record and was already serving a life sentence for the first degree murder. if you can see the gang tattoo on his forehead that reads white power. prison officials say schiffer was stabbed in the next back and torso with the prison made weapons but like this when you see here known as a bone crusher in prison slang. officials say schaefer would only been in san quentin for two weeks if one of those weeks in general population has not reported any problems with other inmates. officials of looking into the motive of the killing and that had anything to do with schaefer is killing of nine year-old melody or the disrespect he showed his victim in this moment. when he made an obscene gesture at his first court appearance. if there also looking into whether so saw had any accomplices i

after less than two weeks at san quentin prison, the man convicted of second degree murder for the drunkving death of a 9-year-old girl is killed in a prison yard attack. rita williams is live at san quentin tonight with details of edward shaffer's death, rita -- >> reporter: frank you might think the killing here of a man who killed his daughter and cost him a

convicted drunk driver sentenced to prison is in critical condition tonight after ak tacked for san quentin prison. edward schaeffer plowed his motorcycle into a 9-year-old and her father. she was killed and her father lost his right leg. this morning, another inmate stabbed or slashed him using a bone crusher. >> a piece of metal fashioned out of a bunk, whatever the case may be and fashioned to look like a knife. this can pierce through a person. >> prison officials are not releasing he names but say there is local notoriety. >> the owner of several pit bulls that mauled a boy to death last week appeared in court today and did not enter a plea. he did make a statement objecting to the charge against him in the death of his step grandson. >> i didn't expect him to go in the garage. if i did, i wasn't not have been -- to be able to prevent. i watched him every day. i change his diapers, feed him. >> three of his five pit bulls attacked the toddler after he wandered into the family garage. besides child endangerment, the 52-year-old is charged with possession of a vicious animal that caused great b

now the killer has been killed at san quentin prison. aaron feels justice has been cheated. >> we felt that he was supposed to serve his time. he's getting stabbed to death must have been horrible, but now he's dead and he's not sitting in a cell, you know, sitting in prison for the next 24 years to life. so maybe he was getting off easy. >> reporter: prison officials say frank sousa, the man with the white power tattoo on his forehead, was seen repeatedly stabbing edward schaefer in the chest and neck. the weapon? a homemade knife called a bone crusher usually made from the metal of bunk beds. the motive, unknown. sousa is serving his fourth prison term, the latest a life sentence for killing a homeless man in san jose in 2007. edward schaefer had also served time in prison before four years for spousal abuse. >> he beat his wife with a broomstick, punched his wife in the face, beat up a disabled guy because he was parking in a disabled spot. he got smashed over and over again and he knew if he got smashed and got on his bike that he'd

. >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> san quentin prison officials havedentified the man accused of stabbing a well-known inmate to death. 31-year-old frank so you swraw is -- frank souza is serving 60 years to life for stabbing edward schaefer to death using a homemade weapon. schaefer was sentenced to life in prison for driving drunk and plowing his motorcycle into a girl killing her. her father says he feels no sense of satisfaction in what happened. >> there are times where it is easier to die and to slip away. i'm not saying it was easy to get stabbed or anything like that, but in the end, it probably would have been more difficult to spend his life in prison. >> schaefer's mother claims deputies beat schaefer and told him, "you are a baby killer. watch out. you will get yours in prison." the marin's sheriff's office has not commented. >>> san jose police are looking for a man who came in contact with a police impersonator. last week police arrested mark ryan pollini on charges of impersonating an officer and having a concealed weapon. most recently

he's come a long way from his time in san quentin prison and a struggle in life. >> i grew up with five, me and my brothers and my sister, a single mother. >> reporter: matthew wants to be a good father to his own kids. >> i have two children, i have a three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter. >> bunch of violations, sales of narcotics, trying to get fast money. not realizing the consequences. not realizing there is opportunities out there. >> reporter: chris served time in san quentin. he's 24 and now has a future thanks to the phoenix project. he was connected with earl, owner of the on location mobile detailing company. chris and matthew are among dozens of young men in the phoenix project of marin. it's been so successful that a preliminary report shows crime statistics decreased 42% here in the first six months after the program started. the sheriff department is hoping that kind of progress will result in crime reduction over the long-term. >> every time i picked up the newspaper, i would read about robberies at the bus stop, robberies in the community, vandalism, gun shots. >

prison weapon. >> the weapon is identified at a bone crusher. it's a piercing type of weapon that's pretty sophisticated. >> reporter: authorities are now investigating the first inmate killing here at san quentin since 1997. reporting live at san quentin state prison, rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a fairfield mother was charged today in the deaths of four children in an apartment fire. 24-year-old shatarra williams pled not guilty in a fairfield court today to involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment. her sister leticia james pled not guilty to the same charges earlier this month. women's three children and james' child died when candles sparked a fire in their apartment. the children had been left unattended. >>> the woman accused of taking part in the killing of a man was arraigned this afternoon. police say housley confessed to participating in the shooting death of 45-year-old kang. police say housley and her boyfriend george huggings robbed kang and a friend as they left a dental office on july 18th. kang was supposed to go to a job interview at google the next day. huggins arrangement is set for tomorrow. >>> san francisco police tonight are looking for a group of men wh

. >> a convicted drunk driver has been killed in an attack at san quentin prison. he ran his motorcycle into nine into car. the little girl was killed and the father lost his right leg. he was slashed by an inmate using a homemade weapon. they are not releasing the other inmate's name but he has local notoriety. >> a second mother faces charges in a fire that killed four children. she is being held on four counts of manslaughter and four counts of child endangerment. police say combined four children will h been left alone inside the apartment about 30 minutes before the fire broke out on april 28. the fire was started accidentally by candle that were burning after pg&e cut power over an unpaid bill. >> school officials did not know what improvement projects were needed to place a $438 million on the ballot. they are refusing to disclose the results of a voter survey that led them to decide to put measure "c" on the ballot. one trustee says he didn't know and alternate option could reduce the costs by one billion dollars over the term. other officials say they were

driver who killed a 9-year-old novato girl with his motorcycle has been murdered himself at san quentin. a prison spokesman says that another inmade, frank souza, stabbed edward schaefer in the chest and neck yesterday morning in a prison yard. sousa apparently used what inmates call a bone crusher a knife made from the metal in prison bunk beds. schaefer killed melody other than recover when he ran a stop sign in may of 2009. that crash also injured her father. he lost one of his legs. 10 days ago schaefer arrived at san quentin to start serving his sentence of 24 years to life. >>> the man who is said to have killed schaefer is serving 60 years to life for killing a homeless san jose man in august 2007. >>> one of the suspects in the murder of a virginia man who was in town for a job interview at google appeared in court today. althea housley was charged with one count of murder and three counts of robbery. the 33-year-old is one of two suspects in last week's death of jinghong kang in oakland. he had just left the dentist when he was robbed of $17 and shot. police say housley admitted her invo

san quentin. shaffer was stabbed to death just days after arriving at the prison. he was convicted of murder in which a 9-year-old girl was killed. rita williams has our report. >> reporter: authorities now are investigating the first inmate killing here at san quentin state prison since 1997. it occurred in the prison reception yard yesterday morning. when frank anthony suoza came up to shaffer in the prison reception yard and stabbed the shaffer. >> it's identified as a broken breaking weapon. it's very sophisticated. >> reporter: souza is facing a prison of life for killing a man. authorities say they don't know why there would be bad blood between souza and they say he kill, who had only arrived here at the prison 10 days ago. edward shaffer was a nine time drunk driving offender convicted of second degree murder just starting to serve his sentence of 24 years to life. his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit when he plowed his motorcycle into a father and daughter. shaffer was going almost twice the posted 35-mile an hour posted speed limit. 9-year-old

san quentin. shaffer was stabbed to death just days after arriving at the prison. he was convicted of murder in which a 9-year-old girl was killed. rita williams has our report. >> reporter: authorities now are investigating the first inmate killing here at san quentin state prison since 1997. it occurred in the prison reception yard yesterday morning. when frank anthony suoza came up to shaffer in the prison reception yard and stabbed the shaffer. >> it's identified as a broken breaking weapon. it's very sophisticated. >> reporter: souza is facing a prison of life for killing a man. authorities say they don't know why there would be bad blood between souza and they say he kill, who had only arrived here at the prison 10 days ago. edward shaffer was a nine time drunk driving offender convicted of second degree murder just starting to serve his sentence of 24 years to life. his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit when he plowed his motorcycle into a father and daughter. shaffer was going almost twice the posted 35-mile an hour posted speed limit. 9-year-old

>> a novato man has died in prison after just being sentenced for a deadly crash that killed a 9-year-old girl. it's reported that edward shaffer was found dead in san quentin state prison last night. however, the details of how they died, they are not clear. shaffer was convict of second- degree murder after he crashed his motorcycle into melanie osheroff and killing her. >>> this morning, police officers tell ktvu patrols are needed on the streets of oakland right now. tara moriarty has more. >> reporter: there are a number of neighborhoods that stretch from east to west oakland in an area that's known as area 2. officers we spoke to say that the number of violent home- invasion robberies have spiked there. police say they are stepping up patrols. many people that criminals are getting more brazen now that the police force down 80 officers due to recent layoffs. but last night a breakthrough came when the city voted to put a four-year parcel tax on the november ballot. it would more than cover the projected shortfall predicted next year. this is a condition that the police union demanded before it would agree to have officers fork over 9% of their salarie

killing a nine year-old novato girl striking her and her family on his motorcycle he has died in san quentin prisondward schaefer was found dead last night no other details on his death has been released at this point the 44 year-old shaver was sentenced to 24 years to life in prison for murdering for the death of melanie and the injury of her father the two were crossing the street when schaefer hit them with his motorcycle he was a repeat dui offender. he slammed into them he was going 65 mi. an hour and driving drunk. >> another day of cool temperatures well below average for this time of year a look at the bay bridge toll plaza plenty of fog and low clouds contributing to those temperatures staying cool this afternoon currently 56 in albany your high today 61 seeing a lot of fog there right now you can see that on fog trucker throughout the bay area as we move into 9:00 or mixing out of bed but really sitting in the north bay pushing for the golden gate particularly over the bay and the coastline you will continue to sit there as we make our way into the 11:00 hour so temperatures along the coa

drunk driver who killed a 9-year-old novato girl with his motorcycle has been murdered at san quentin. a prisonpokesman says that another inmate stabbed edward schaefer in the chest and neck yesterday morning. souza apparently called what -- use what inmates calling a bone crusher. it's a knife made from the metal in prison bunk beds. schaefer killed the young girl when he ran a stop sign in may have 2009. frank souza was serving a sentence of 60 years to life for strangling, beating and killing a homeless san jose man in august of 2007. >>> police are investigating the drowning of a 6-year-old boy in castro valley. officers say the boy was swimming at the castro valley high school swim center yesterday afternoon when a lifeguard spotted him in the pool. it's not known how long he had been under water. the boy was rushed to the hospital but didn't make it. according to the sheriff's deputies, there were 44 people at the pool, three lifeguards on duty, at the time they found that boy. >>> today a pregnant cow ran amok at the state fair and had to be shot and killed. the cow was being unloaded fr

san quentin or yard. >> to happen here at sam " courtyard on monday morning. prison officials say he was stabbed multiple times and this was his main suspect 31 year-old frank anthony sousa. he has an extensive criminal record and serving a life sentence for first-degree murder you can see the gang tattoo on his forehead that says white power. the city was stabbed in the neck, back in torso with the prison a weapon which one like this when you see here it's of bone crusher in prison slang. schaefer will only been in san queen for two weeks one of those weeks in general population had not reported problems with other inmates. officials looking into the murder and if it had anything to do with schaefer is killing of nine year-old melody or the disrespect he showed his victim in this moment when he made an obscene gesture at his first court appearance. they're also looking at what they're not so sad any accomplices in the crime. >> a live look from our mount tam cam were seeing fog along the coast up to the north platte, down to the south we see clearing. early this sat

prison. >> reporter: by the way this was the first murder in san quentin in 13 years. now, sheri dunn showed us a letter she wrote to the marin county sheriff's office in may expressing her concerns over her son's safety and n.prison. we called the sheriff's office. they still haven't returned our calls. vic lee abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> and alameda county sheriff is looking into the drowning of a 6-year-old boy in a swim center. lifeguards pulled the boy out of a shallow area and tried to perform cpr. officials activated their response plan. the boy pronounced dead in the hospital. the hayward area recreation and parks district says four life daurdz were on duty and 44 people. the rules requiring any child under age 7 to have an adult with them is not known p a parent or adult was with the boy when he drowned. >> yeah. swimming is something you have to be involved and the staff has been responsive and is doing an excellent job. >> the poom was back open today before lifeguards on duty have received grief counseling. >> new lab tests show high levels of a chemical i

san quentin. edward schaefer was stabbed to death in a prison yard monday morning. the suspect, 31-year-old frank souza, who is serving a life term for killing a homeless man in san jose. schaefer was doing 24 to life for the drunk driving motorcycle crash that killed a novato girl last year. the girl's father feels justice has been cheated. >> getting stabbed to death must have been horrible. but now he's dead. and he is not sitting in a cell, you know, sitting in prison for the next 24 years to life. so maybe he was getting off easy. >> schaefer was killed by a knife known as a bone crusher, made of metal from a prison bunk bed. >>> the tower span of the east bay bridge is on track. anne makovec explains. >> reporter: it's a historic moment. the view is about to change behind me. i'm in front of the bay bridge, that's yerba buena island over there oakland on the other side. there's been a crane, floating crane, over there working until february doing pre-assembly work ready to lift the first piece of what's expected to be an iconic tower in a few hours from now the

prison. >> thomas had been paroled from san quentin before the attack. >> they were required by rules to take him to langs on monday morning and hand deliver him to the parole agent. >> instead, guards dropped him off at the bus stop. a violation of policy. this family is suing for compensation. now, a judge threw out lawsuit and they're appealing that ruling. their turn believes they have a stronger case now that kidnap victim jaycee dugard received $20 million last week because of mist yaikz made by the corrections department. thomas will be formally sentenced next month. >> tesla motor as announced plans to develop an electric version of the rav 4. tels has delivered a prototype for testing and hope to begin selling knit two years. tela hopes to drive down the costs of electric vehicles so main stream pier as ford one. >> hewlett-packard confirms it will abandon the compus in cupertino ask ship people to malpalo alto. hp calls it an efficiency move. some campuses only about 65% occupied. the company did not say whether jobs will be lost. officials say it will hurt their tax base. >> now, t

san quentin. edward schaefer was stabbed to death in a prison yard monday morning. e suspect is 31-year-old frank souza who is serving a life term for killing a homeless man in san jose. schaefer was doing 24 to life for the drunk driving motorcycle crash that killed a novato girl last year. it was his ninth drunken driving conviction. the girl's father though feels justice has been cheated. >> getting stabbed to death must have been horrible but now he is dead and he is not sitting in a cell in prison for the next 24 years to life. so maybe he was getting off easy. >> schaefer was killed a few days after he arrived at san quenten apparently with knife from a prison bunk bed metal. there is no motive at this time. >>> voters in antioch will decide whether to raise the sales tax by a half cent voting to put the measure on the november ballot in hopes of easing their budget woes. a packed house at city hall many objecting to the idea but city leaders say that if the measure doesn't pass, deeper budget cuts would be necessary likely including police officer layoffs. >>

here at san quentin officials are investigating the stabbing death of an inmate that happen monday in the prisone victim was average day for he was serving a 24 year life sentence for killing nine year- old melanie while driving drunk last year appeared officials say schaefer was stabbed multiple times and this is their main suspect. 31 year-old frank anthony sousa was r.d. serving a life sentence for murder. prison officials are still investigating the motive for the killing and then the other inmates were involved. kron 4 news. here in the bay area the sun is finally out but it doesn't mean it's warm in fact it continues to be cold. how cool off or heading towards our seventh month in a row where the average high temperature is below normal. neurologists say the cooling trend will continue at least for another two weeks. in san francisco kron 4 news. karen said a clear forty-niners president will be giving this speech to the franchise had to pay for the $937 million stadium they want to build here. fresh off his victory in the june ballot to allow the city to clear the way for the 47 to build

morning we learned that a convicted drunk driver sentenced to prison earlier this month in a debt of a novato girl has in our been killed in san quentin. he plowed his motorcycle into the girl and father's car. the girl was killed and the father lost his right leg. he was tabbed by a homemade weapon when investigators call a bone crusher. >> essentially a piece of metal that has been cut out of a bunk or whatever and fashioned to look like a knife. it's something that kill a person. >>> a secretary has turned herself in to face manslaughter charges in an apartment fire that killed four children. they report 24-year-old woman is being held on four counts of manslaughter and four counts of child endangerment after turning herself in yesterday. her sister pleaded not guilty to similar charges last month. police say the combined four children having left alone in their apartment for 30 minutes before the fire broke out. the fire started accidentally by candles. >> california's republican gubernatorial candidate meg whitman says she has no interest in a white house run. she appeared on "good morning america." >> you win in november you are

san francisco, tracy grant, bay area news. >> thank you, tracy. >>> a bay area man sent to is an quentin for a horrific drunk driving accident has been killed by another inmate. the prison officials say 44-year-old edward schieffer was stabbed with a makeshift night in the prison's reception center yard. he died later that night, ten days after he arrived at the prison to serve 24 years to life in prison. schieffer was convicted of second-degree murder for killing a 9 year old girl and seriously injuring her father as they walked in a crosswalk. he had nine pryer dui's. they say the 31-year-old is suspected of killing schieffer because he was convicted of first-degree murder for killing a 59 homeless man in san jose in august of 2007. he arrived at san quentin in january to begin serving a life sentence. >>> oakland is now set to become the first city in the country to allow medical marijuana factory farms. late this morning, oakland city council approved the plan including setting environmental and safety standards. the council approved a total of four permits to megamarijuana farm. they will apply a growing medical marijuana industry. supporters say it will make milli

prison. >> no, sir. >> larry: thank you all very much. bernard, great to see you. public information officer, san quentin.ile" duane "dog" chapman, now in his seventh year on a & e and judge mathis, host of the "judge mathis show" and founder of peer. thanks for joining us. anderson cooper and "ac 360" is next. >>> thanks for joining us. tonight, the attack on shirley