Two arrested, one sought, after 2 violent and bloody fights at Redding’s Parkview Park

REDDING — Officers have made two arrests after a violent fight involving a machete, hammer, and golf club, and are searching for a suspect involved in an earlier, unrelated stabbing that happened within 18 hours of each other at Redding’s Parkview Riverfront Park. The violent and bloody incidents happened Monday night and Tuesday afternoon, according to officials. The 12.5 acre […]

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HEMET: Officers safely apprehend unstable man armed with knife and hammer

HEMET — A reportedly unstable man who was armed with a knife and hammer while holding the knife to his own throat was safely apprehended without incident Sunday, June 4. The subject, who was heard by City of Hemet emergency dispatchers yelling that he wanted to die, was taken into custody at the Devonshire Downs Mobile Home park at 260 N. […]

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One of Shasta County’s Most Wanted arrested after hammer attack

REDDING – Redding Police officers arrested one of Shasta County’s Most Wanted Monday, May 16. The man allegedly threatened to kill a City of Redding Parks employee and attempted to attack him with a claw hammer, according to a Redding Police official. Officers arrested the alleged suspect, identified as Patrick Francis Brooks, 26 years, a Redding area transient. Brooks had fled […]

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