Week in Review: Search Widens for Missing Nursing Student, Fifth Newark Shooting Wounds Teenager

This week the entire Bay Area has been searching for , a nursing student who went missing May 27. Le, a San Mateo resident, was last seen at Kaiser in Hayward. On Friday, in the area her car was found in support of finding the 26-year-old who was enrolled at Samuel Merritt University.

Newark police were busy this week, starting with the shooting of a 17-year-old. The to his leg after shots May 30 on the 6300 block of Mirabeau Drive.

Officers arrested a Fremont man and are searching for two others on suspicion of a in the Lake district on June 2 – just four days after police arrested three individuals on suspicion of of another home in the Lakeshore Park area.

A one-alarm fire broke out on the night of May 30. Four engines, one truck and two battalion chiefs from the Alameda County Fire Department and contained the fire within an hour of its start.

The Newark Junior High School Advanced Band held its last concert of the year on May 31, marking the at the junior high. Parents and students alike expressed disappointment in not having music programs at the school next year due to budget cuts.

Newark Patch also featured the recognitions of two Tri-City natives who now serve the city in two different ways. Science teacher was recently named the 2011 District Teacher of the Year and and Detective was chosen as Newark Police Department’s Officer of the Year.