Crime & Safety
Man Kills Ex-Girlfriend, Son, 4, Then Takes Own Life: Police
A 25-year-old North Bay man, his 26-year-old former girlfriend and their 4-year-old son are dead, police say.
VALLEJO, CA — Vallejo police said a Vallejo man killed his former girlfriend and their 4-year-old son before fatally shooting himself. Police responded around 11:50 p.m. Thursday to a report of an
unresponsive female at the intersection of Lewis Brown Road and B.W. Williams Drive, acting police Capt. Jason Potts said.
The 26-year-old woman suffered at least one gunshot wound. Her identity is being withheld until her next of kin are notified, Potts said.
Detectives learned the woman was the mother of a 4-year-old child, and they went to a residence in the 500 block of Quartz Lane in Vallejo where they found the boy dead from at least one gunshot wound, Potts said.
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Police identified Jacoby Brandon Brooks, 25, of Vallejo, as the suspect and detectives got a warrant for Brooks' arrest for two counts of domestic violence homicide, Potts said.
Brooks was then found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in an area southeast of the Quartz Lane crime scene, Potts said.
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The investigation determined Brooks and the woman had a prior dating relationship and they were the parents of the deceased boy, Potts said.
Anyone with information about the slayings is asked to call detective K. Rose at 707-651-7146 or detective J. Caitham at 707-648-4280.
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