At 2 o'clock on Sunday morning, a 19-year-old named Meleia Willis- Starbuck was shot and killed outside her apartment on College Avenue and Dwight Way in Berkeley. For those of us who knew her -- and ...

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Twenty years after my daughter Meleia was shot to death, I still dream about her. In these dreams I am always trying to get to her so we can spend time together. But I always fail. They’re nocturnal ...

There are words for certain people who have lost loved ones; a widow, a widower, an orphan. But what do you call a parent who has lost a child? I pondered this question with Kimberly Willis-Starbuck, ...

A Hayward man summoned for help by a woman who was part of a group being harassed by Cal football players near the Berkeley campus ended up killing her when he opened fire, a prosecutor told jurors ...

BERKELEY — Friends and family on Monday marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Meleia Willis Starbuck, whose murder was as shocking as it was sad. The 365 days since Willis Starbuck was ...

Click the audio link above to hear more messages from Meleia, as well as interviews with her stepfather, a teacher and a classmate. There I am in Sears on Long Island with my baby daughter Meleia and ...