SAN JOSE
Violent Saturday
bookended by two
fatal stabbings Saturday was bookended with two fatal stabbings in San Jose – one early, one later – in separate parts of town.
Police are investigating a fatal stabbing that occurred at 4:56 p.m. Saturday at Almaden Road and Via Monte Drive in South San Jose, according to police spokesman officer Jermaine Thomas.
Thomas offered no additional details – including the name, age or gender of the victim or the number or description of any suspects, citing the ongoing investigation.
Earlier Saturday, police arrested a 19-year-old man after a multiple stabbing that left one victim dead.
Armando Villalobos of San Jose was arrested on suspicion of stabbing to death Mariano Granados, 46, also of San Jose. Police believe Villalobos also stabbed three other victims who survived, Thomas said
Villalobos was arrested a few hours after the stabbings in the 1700 block of Schulte Drive in East San Jose. Police responded to the fracas at 3:09 a.m. Granados was pronounced dead at the scene.
Thomas would not say what is believed to have caused the dispute that led to the stabbings. Nor would he release the names or genders of the other stabbing victims, who are 19, 23 and 45 years old. He said they were treated and released at nearby hospitals with “non-life-threatening” injuries.
The five people involved knew each other, Thomas said.
The stabbings were the 22nd and 23rd homicides in San Jose this year.
– Deborah Lohse,
Mercury News
STANFORD
Harvard woos back
married professorsTwo of Stanford’s most highly regarded African-American professors are returning to Harvard in January.
The husband and wife team of Lawrence Bobo and Marcyliena Morgan came to Stanford in 2005. Both held tenure-level positions.
Morgan, a scholar of global hip-hop culture and associate professor of communication, directs the Hip Hop Archive, part of Stanford’s larger effort to diversify its cultural offerings.
Bobo, well known for his work on racial inequities in the criminal justice system, is director of Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. This year he has been on leave at the university’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
The couple came to The Farm shortly after Morgan was denied tenure under former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers. The pair’s departure was a serious blow to a department that lost several African-American scholars during Summers’ tenure, including star professor Cornel West.
Now both Bobo and Morgan have accepted faculty appointments at Harvard.
The work Morgan has done at Stanford, most notably her forthcoming book on underground hip-hop culture in Los Angeles, “The Real Hip Hop,” added force to her tenure bid, according to the Harvard Crimson.
“Since the day they left, it has been my dream to get them back,” Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., former chair of the African and African-American Studies Department, told the Crimson.
Harvard President Drew G. Faust contacted the couple in person to urge them to return, Gates said. Harvard faculty reportedly wooed the pair this summer over dinners in Cambridge and Martha’s Vineyard.
– Lisa M. Krieger,
Mercury News
SANTA CLARA
Police searching
for armed robberSanta Clara police Saturday evening continued to search for a man who robbed a small grocery store with a semiautomatic handgun Friday afternoon near the Rivermark Plaza shopping center, then escaped on foot.
The suspect is “still outstanding,” said Sgt. Dan Winter. The suspect was described as an African-American man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, a blue cap and blue jeans. He had a large, distinctive Afro hairstyle.
The robbery happened about 3:53 p.m. Friday when the suspect approached a clerk in the Trio Market and demanded money. He fled with $200 to $300, police said Friday. No one was injured, and no shots were fired.
Police used helicopters and dogs and kept some people in their homes for several hours Friday night as they searched the area around Hope Drive and Lafayette Street, near Sun Microsystems.
Police recovered one weapon the robber used in the hold-up but said the missing gunman apparently had another one. “We consider him armed and very dangerous,” said Santa Clara officer Patti Lynch.
– Deborah Lohse,
Mercury News
