Open Vallejo

Vallejo Police Sgt. Matthew Komoda (left) and Ofc. Himanshu Saini, sequestered by detectives, stand beside an unmarked vehicle after killing Rommel Delfin Querol on July 20, 2026 in Vallejo, Calif. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo) The Vallejo police officers who shot and killed a carjacking suspect last week also fired in the department’s two previous shootings, Open Vallejo has confirmed.

Vallejo police secure the scene following a shooting by other officers on July 20, 2026 in Vallejo, Calif. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo) Vallejo police shot and killed a man Monday afternoon, the department’s first fatal shooting in more than six years. The shooting occurred shortly after 1:00 p.m. at the dead end of Mahogany Drive off Broadway Street in an industrial area of north Vallejo.

Former Vallejo Police Lt. Kent Tribble arrives in Solano Superior Court to testify about his role in Vallejo’s “Badge of Honor” ritual on March 22, 2022 in Vallejo, Calif. He is accompanied by Assistant City Attorney Katelyn Knight. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo) The city of Vallejo has been forced to release its investigation into a macabre police ritual, first exposed by Open Vallejo six years ago, in which officers bent the tips of their star-shaped badges to mark each civilian they killed.

Randolph Villacrusis (right) leaves the Solano Justice Building in Vallejo, Calif., with his attorney after his arraignment on April 21, 2026. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo) The Solano County District Attorney’s Office has charged a man with secretly recording people in a maternity ward restroom at Kaiser Vallejo Medical Center, court records show.

Then-Fairfield Police Ofc. Dustin Joseph, center, holds a kitten alongside colleagues in an April 2020 department photograph — three months before Open Vallejo revealed he was among a secretive clique of Vallejo officers who bent their badges to commemorate fatal shootings. (Fairfield Police Department) The Fairfield Police Department cleared former Vallejo Police Cpl.

Vallejo City Manager Andrew Murray stands in an elevator at Vallejo City Hall on Oct. 22, 2024 in Vallejo, Calif. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo) Vallejo City Manager Andrew Murray announced Wednesday that he will leave his position later this month, ending a tenure of less than two years leading a city still in the early stages of a sweeping police reform effort imposed by the California Department of Justice. Neither Murray nor the city of Vallejo provided a specific reason for his departure.

Lenora Mae Rose (Barr, Wakin), lovingly known as Nora, passed away at her home in Napa, California, on Jan. 29, 2026, at the age of 62. Born on Sept. 13, 1963, in Wahiawa, Hawaii, on the North Shore of Oahu, to Ellen Leilani Martin and Clyde Barr, Nora grew up immersed in Hawaiian culture. She learned hula and grew passionate for the native music, developed a deep love for the islands’ lands, and carried that connection throughout her life.

The Walgreens on Redwood Street where Sean Monterrosa was killed on June 2, 2020, is seen from above on Nov. 21, 2021 in Vallejo, Calif. (Noah Berger / Special to Open Vallejo) The city of Vallejo has agreed to pay a record $8.5 million to the family of Sean Monterrosa, a 22-year-old San Francisco man killed by a detective in June 2020. The payment is Vallejo’s largest civil rights settlement in at least 20 years. It resolves a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and Det.

Vallejo City Attorney Veronica Nebb attends a meeting of the city’s Police Oversight and Accountability Commission on Nov. 26, 2024 in Vallejo, Calif. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo) The California State Bar has opened a confidential inquiry into the Vallejo City Attorney’s Office, Open Vallejo has learned, adding a new front in the mounting scrutiny of the office.

George J. Roth was born on April 18, 1942 in Michigan and died on November 24, 2025 in Vallejo, surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Jeannine, daughters Kristin Metler (Jeff) and Kelly Nicholson, grandchildren Jeffrey (Paty), Kourtney, Katelyn (Steve), Marina (Clayton), Emily, and Tony (Angelina), and great-grandchildren Madison, Autumn, Michelle, Clayton (aka Little Dude), Aria, Mateo, Olivia, and Maya. George was in the Navy and served during Vietnam.