The San Francisco 49ers opened Day 2 of the NFL draft by selecting Ole Miss wide receiver De’Zhaun Stribling with the 33rd overall pick.

In the courts, a Sacramento jury ordered the city to pay $32.1 million to the family of two brothers killed by a police detective in a 2022 Interstate 5 crash.

That was only the beginning of a busy news Friday. Here are some of The Sacramento Bee’s other top stories for April 24, 2026:

• NFL draft: The 49ers picked Stribling, who stands 6-foot-2 and ran a 4.36-second 40-yard dash at the NFL combine, after GM John Lynch said players they wanted at No. 27 weren’t available. Coach Kyle Shanahan called the trade back to 33 “a huge success.”

• $32.1 million verdict: Jurors awarded the aforementioned multimillion-dollar payout to the two surviving children of Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 33, who was killed alongside his brother Lionel Enriquez Rodriguez, 32, by detective Jonathon Thomas Nangle in December 2022. The city accepted responsibility and admitted liability.

• Capitol rally: Families of crash victims demanded tougher penalties for deadly drivers. “If you want to get away with murder in California,” organizer Allison Lyman said, “do it with your car.”

• Prison settlement: The state of California agreed to pay $1.9 million to resolve claims by 13 women who alleged staff at the Central California Women’s Facility assaulted them in retaliation for sexual abuse complaints.

• Hottest ZIP code: Sacramento’s 95811 — covering Southside Park, midtown and the Railyards — was California’s trendiest ZIP code for movers in March, with 6.6 moves per capita.

• School funding: Sacramento City Unified, facing a projected $390 million deficit by 2027-28, is considering school consolidations and may ask voters to approve a bond measure this November.

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