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Berkeley,
California (Monday, July 16, 2007) - The
City of Berkeley is offering a $15,000 reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect or suspects
responsible for the City’s second homicide of 2007.
On
Friday, June 8, 2007, Berkeley Police Department (BPD) responded to
a call from an employee of a multi-unit apartment building in West
Berkeley. The employee, who works for the property management of
1040 University Avenue, requested that officers check the welfare of
a tenant that he had not seen for some time.
Officers
entered the fourth floor apartment and found Terrence
Marlow
Broadnax, 46,
dead inside. Detectives of the BPD Homicide Detail have been
investigating the matter as a homicide since the discovery. Broadmax
died of multiple blunt force trauma injuries.
Approximately
a month earlier on May 6, 2007, BPD responded to a report of a man
lying in the roadway in the area of Second and Cedar Streets in
northwest Berkeley. Officers found the City of Berkeley’s first
murder victim of the year, Agustine
James Silva, Jr.
19, of Antioch at the scene. In that case, the Alameda County
Coroner’s Office determined that Silva died of multiple blunt
force injuries. The City of Berkeley announced a $15, 000 reward for
information in that case on May 25, 2007.
Detectives
are asking for the community’s help with these investigations.
Anyone who may have any information regarding these crimes is urged
to call the BPD Homicide Detail at (510) 981-5741 or the
non-emergency dispatch line at 981-5900.
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