The murderer, a former ROTC Crawford High School Honor Student, from the Class of 1960, left a written note detailing his reason for killing Miss Degen. The two had dated recently and Miss Degen had broken-off the relationship. Marcia’s former boyfriend had threatened to kill her twice within a 16 hour period before the killing, a homicide detective said.

The shooting occurred at the intersection of Spartan Drive and Spartan Circle, a block from Crawford High School at 7:50 a.m. Miss Degen was taken to the College Park Hospital where she died at 9:10 a.m

He was swimming just before 6 p.m. with two companions in water about 10 feet deep. They were near the middle of the reservoir when he told his friends he could not make it to a nearby raft.

Officers said the companions continued swimming and, when they looked back, Vega had disappeared. The friends went to a nearby fire station to summon help. Three city lifeguards, were sent to the scene. They searched the murky water for about an hour before recovering the body at 8:05 p.m., police said.

Swimming is not permitted in the reservoir.

One victim was 16 year old Crawford High School student, Louis Abraham Goldhammer of San Diego, who died from extensive head injury following a car crash.

Police said Goldhammer was driving a subcompact car at a high rate of speed on Collwood Boulevard at about 5:30 p.m. when he lost control and the car overturned at 54th Street.

He died - three hours later. Two passengers in his car, his brother, Richard, 15, and Keith Griffin, 16, were injured and required hospital treatment.

Juan Bahena, a ninth-grader at Crawford High School, jumped in the water at the Chollas Lake Recreation Center about 6 p.m. When he did not surface, friends tried to find him.

Others found the boy unconscious and pulled him from the water. He was taken to a nearby hospital, then transferred to the Children’s Hospital, where he died about 10 p.m.

Police say it dose not appear to be gang-related incident. On January 23, 2002 shots were fired about 8:45 p.m. near the corner of Midvale and Gateway drives in Gateway. Officers say said that the two teen-agers had driven to the nationhood and were met by Jerry Rico, 41, who lives on Midvale Drive. As Rico was talking to the teens, a light-colored sport-utility drove up, “A passenger got out of the SUV, and a few words were exchanged before he (the passenger from the SUV) fired several shots (at the group),” said homicide Lt. Mike Hurley of the San Diego Police Department. Neighbors said as many as eight shots were fired in two separate volleys.

The killer returned back to the SUV, and sped off in the vehicle leaving Jerry Rico shot dead in the street, and Maroum Khalife, who lived nearby on Palm Street also shot dead behind the wheel of this car. The passenger in Khalife’s car was Hong “Bethie” Nguyen, a girl in her seventh month of pregnancy; she was shot in the arm and in the stomach, and was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Nguyen was conscious when she was taken to the hospital. Reports state “She was talking about not knowing why she was shot.” At the hospital, the doctors delivered the girl’s baby. The child had been wounded in the arm, authorities said, and was also in critical condition.

Maroum Khalife was a senior at Crawford High School, and grief counselors were sent to the campus yesterday to council the students. Hong Nguyen, also a senior at Crawford High School is expected to recover and graduate in June. According to Khalife’s uncle Joseph Ghosn “Maroum recently earned his first ‘A’ in school and after having a slow start this year he was excited about graduating in June. Khalife’s mother learned about her son’s death when she recognized his car on a television broadcast about the shooting. “He was a very likeable person,” said an uncle, Jihad Sleiman. “He didn’t have any enemies. He wanted to finish high school and travel.”

The neighborhood where the shooting took place is described as quiet and crime free. The enclave includes modest, well-kept, single- story homes, and is in a triangle generally bounded on the south by state Route 94, on the east by I-805 and on the west by I-15. Officer Larry Holloway whose beat includes the neighborhood the crime scene occurred said. “The only thing I can recall is a person reporting a bike stolen."

Julio Cesar Ruelas, 22, and Ramon Garcia Junior, 19, both of San Diego, died at the scene of the 2:45 a.m. crash, the county Medical Examiner's Office said. Ruelas and Garcia were former Crawford High graduates.

Lucya Guadalupe Lopez Hurtado, 17, died Sunday afternoon at Scripps-Mercy San Diego Hospital. Lopez was a senior at Crawford High. Injured in the crash was Janet Ibarra, a 10th grader from Crawford High and the cousin of Lopez.

Today, a group of about a dozen friends of Lopez's gathered at Scripps Mercy Hospital for a small memorial. They say she planned to graduate from Crawford High School this spring of 2009. Her friends are planning some sort of fundraiser to help the family.

The driver and four passengers were ejected from a Ford Mustang on Highway 94, California Highway Patrol Officer Brian Pennings said. None was wearing a seat belt, he said.

The car spun out, went up an embankment and rolled several times. Authorities suspect alcohol might have been a factor, he said. They'll wait for toxicology tests before they can be sure.