Crime
| Nov. 12, 2008
In closing arguments Wednesday, a prosecutor argued for first-degree murder charges against Samisone Taukitoku while Taukitoku’s lawyer said her client had acted in self-defense.
Jury deliberation began in the murder trial of the 20-year-old Reno resident accused of killing three men, including university student Derek Jensen, at a 2007 Halloween party.
| Nov. 11, 2008
Samisoni Taukitoku testified Monday that he “just started shooting,” at a Halloween party last year where a university student and two others died.
The alleged killer said he doesn’t remember shooting anybody because he was dazed after several people jumped him.
| Nov. 11, 2008
Friends and family remember University of Nevada, Reno sophomore Luis Sedano-Felix as a “man of art.” The 19-year-old psychology major loved to draw and paint murals and abstract works that stemmed from a deeper meaning. His tag, “soler,” fit his personality that friends describe as a “ball of sunshine.”
| Nov. 6, 2008
Uto Lomano gave an “uncomfortable” testimony Thursday, in which he affirmed that he watched a man he calls his uncle shoot two men several times.
Lomano, 17, answered mostly in “yeah”s or “no”s in his testimony against Samisoni Taukitoku, the man accused of shooting three people to death at a Halloween party last year.
| Nov. 5, 2008
University of Nevada, Reno student Luis Sedano-Felix was shot and killed Halloween morning on Smithridge Drive, according to the Reno Police Department.
Sedano-Felix, 19, and his cousin Jesus Garibay, 20, were crossing out graffiti near a party where several gang members were in attendance, Sgt. Kim Bradshaw of RPD said. Several gang members approached the cousins and 17-year-old Angel Joel Garcia allegedly fired several rounds from a handgun, killing Sedano-Felix at the scene.
| Nov. 4, 2008
Some students raised concerns about how incidents close to campus are handled after UNRPD did not notify students of a nearby shooting and a student’s off-campus sexual assault earlier this year.
Garcia said UNRPD did not notify students because the incidents were off campus and students were not in danger.
| Nov. 4, 2008
Jury selection started Monday in the trial of the man accused of killing three people, including University of Nevada, Reno student Derek Jensen, at a Halloween party in Southwest Reno last year.
Samisoni Taukitoku is charged with three counts of first-degree murder with a firearm and four counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
| Nov. 4, 2008
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| Oct. 24, 2008
Jurors handed Mohamed Kamaludeen a life sentence without the possibility of parole Thursday after hearing testimony from Judy Calder’s family and a Canadian inspector investigating a 1993 stabbing Kamaludeen was allegedly involved in.
Kamaludeen was convicted Wednesday of murdering professor Judy Calder on Aug. 18, 2007 and soliciting for her murder in 2006
| Oct. 23, 2008
Mohamed Kamaludeen will serve a life without parole sentence for the murder of University of Nevada, Reno professor Judy Calder.
Kamaludeen, also known as Rickey Barge, was sentenced Thursday afternoon. He was found guilty Wednesday of murdering Calder and of solicitation to commit murder.
| Oct. 22, 2008
Mohamad Kamaludeen was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in the killing of university professor Judy Calder.
As the verdict was read, members of the Calder family cried.
| Oct. 22, 2008
The man accused of killing professor Judy Calder last year told police he orchestrated the stabbing on behalf of the professor’s husband because of a dispute over her will.
| Oct. 21, 2008
Mohamed Kamaludeen, the man accused of killing University of Nevada, Reno professor Judy Calder, attempted to have her killed at least once before, a former employee of Kamaludeen testified Monday.
| Oct. 17, 2008
In Thursday’s testimony, alleged accomplice Carlos Filomeno said Mohamed Kamaludeen stabbed Judy Calder in the chest five or more times, stashed the body in his van, let her husband look inside the van with the hidden body and dumped her corpse a few miles outside of Jackpot, Nev.
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