NATIONAL CITY, Calif.—Authorities reached out to the public June 8 for help in identifying and tracking down the assailants responsible for shootings that left two youths dead and two others badly wounded over the last eight months in National City. The first of the two firearm assaults took place in the 1800 block of East…

SAN DIEGO—A 70-year-old man who pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a National City convenience store clerk almost 50 years ago was sentenced June 7 to five years to life in state prison. Carlin Edward Cornett pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder in the July 31, 1974, killing of 22-year-old Christy Ellen Bryant. Currently,…

SAN DIEGO—A San Diego man charged with killing his girlfriend, who disappeared and was later found dead in Mexico, has been convicted of her murder. A jury convicted Nery Roberto Garcia, 36, last week of first-degree murder for the 2021 death of 48-year-old Faviola Calderon. Calderon was reported missing on July 29, 2021, after she…

NATIONAL CITY, Calif.—A driver was killed early May 12 in a solo car crash at the end of a brief police chase through National City, authorities said. The pursuit began shortly after midnight, when the southbound driver passed a patrol officer’s cruiser at high speed on National City Boulevard, National City Police Department Assistant Chief…

CHULA VISTA, Calif.—A National City elementary school teacher who allegedly groomed and committed sex acts upon one of her former students March 13 pleaded not guilty to 15 felony counts, including forcible lewd acts on a child and possession of child pornography. Jacqueline Ma, a sixth-grade teacher at Lincoln Acres Elementary School who won San…

SAN DIEGO—A man suspected of attempting to rob a bank in National City surrendered to the Escondido Police Department, the FBI in San Diego announced on Jan. 31. The attempted robbery occurred around 4:30 p.m. Jan. 18 at a Bank of America branch at 235 East Eighth Street, authorities said. The man entered the bank…