Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA CITY HALL – The Arcata City Council was unable to meet for a second night, its deliberations disrupted by activists demanding resolution to the unsolved killing of HSU student David Josiah Lawson. Unfinished business – including The Village student housing project – will be held over to an Aug.…
A closer look at the party where David Josiah Lawson died
Paul Mann Mad River Union ARCATA — Police radio recordings logged what Arcata officers and medics found on arrival at the scene of an alleged stabbing on Spear Avenue that left a Humboldt State University teenager dead early on the Saturday morning before Easter. Audio scanner traffic recorded on April 15 from 3 to 4…
Pepper spray victim in fatal mêlée
Paul Mann Mad River Union ARCATA — Kyle Castillo, a College of the Redwoods student, was one of the indirect targets of an alleged pepper spray attack that reportedly led to the murder of Humboldt State University student David Josiah Lawson. Castillo was at an afterparty on April 14 to 15 at a house on…
Mack Town murder suspect admits to fist fight with slain HSU student
Paul Mann Mad River Union EUREKA – Kyle Zoellner, the McKinleyville man accused of murdering a Humboldt State University student April 15 in Arcata, admitted to detectives that “he was involved in a physical fight with the victim,” David Josiah Lawson. The probable-cause notes submitted to the court by Arcata Police Detective Sgt. Todd Dokweiler…
Accused stabber charged with murder, pleads not guilty
Mad River Union EUREKA – Kyle Christopher Zoellner, accused of stabbing a Humboldt State University student to death at an off-campus party on Saturday, was charged today in court with murder and the use of a deadly weapon, a knife. Zoellner, 23, was appointed a public defender at today’s arraignment, during which he pled not…
Arcata Police Dept. receives anonymous email from stabbing witness
Arcata Police ARCATA – On April 15th, at 3:02am officers from the Arcata Police Department responded to the 1100 block of Spear Avenue on the report of a stabbing. At 3:03am the first officer arrived on-scene. 19-year-old David Josiah Lawson, a student at Humboldt State University, was later pronounced dead at the Mad River Hospital as a…