{"id":274237,"date":"2026-04-18T14:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274237\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:07:49","slug":"man-accused-in-santa-rosa-killing-of-condor-club-manager-to-face-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274237\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused in Santa Rosa killing of Condor Club manager to face trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Picking up where he left off a day earlier<\/a>, Santa Rosa Police Department Detective Gino Rantissi on Friday, April 17, stitched together multiple strands of evidence \u2014 investigative interviews, phone calls and texts, cell phone tower pings and FLOCK camera captures \u2014 to portray Dublin resident Richard Lund as the person who shot and killed Mark Calcagni at his Santa Rosa home Oct. 3.<\/p>\n

Rantissi\u2019s testimony at Friday\u2019s preliminary hearing carried enough weight to convince Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Lynnette Brown to greenlight the case for trial.<\/p>\n

She scheduled Lund\u2019s arraignment for April 29. He is facing three felony counts of murder, violating a prohibition on firearm access and being a felon in possession of ammunition, along with a number of enhancements.<\/p>\n

Calcagni\u2019s death at age 60 stunned patrons of the historic Condor Club<\/a>, the North Beach San Francisco nightclub he managed. The Condor, which opened in 1958, is credited with being America\u2019s first topless bar.<\/p>\n

Lund and his girlfriend, Asia Morton, both worked there until Calcagni fired them<\/a> for being part of a drug sales operation at the club, prosecutors allege.<\/p>\n

Summarizing testimony by Rantissi and other SRPD detectives and officers, Sonoma County Deputy District Attorney Christopher Brown offered an overarching theory of Calcagni\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n

Lund drove from Dublin to Santa Rosa on Sept. 26 and spent the day waiting for Calcagni at his Santa Rosa home, but the club manager didn\u2019t show, Brown stated Friday. So Lund returned in the wee hours of Oct. 3. He drove a long route through the South Bay and the San Francisco peninsula, across the Golden Gate and north to Santa Rosa. There he sat in a rental car outside Calcagni\u2019s house for four hours, trading texts about the victim\u2019s location.<\/p>\n

Minutes after Calcagni got home, he lay dead in the Brookwood Avenue bicycle lane.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no other reason for (Lund) to be here other than to confront and to kill Mr. Calcagni,\u201d the prosecutor told the judge. (Chris Brown and Lynnette Brown are not related.)<\/p>\n

Rantissi\u2019s testimony cited communications between Morton and both a cell phone registered to Lund, and a VoIP \u2014 Voice Over Internet Protocol \u2014 service that transmits voice calls over the internet. SRPD traced the VoIP account back to Lund\u2019s email address.<\/p>\n

Those phone numbers allowed Rantissi to build out a map and timeline tracing Lund\u2019s whereabouts on Sept. 26 and Oct. 3, he said, a data visualization that was presented in court.<\/p>\n

The phone movements were corroborated by FLOCK camera evidence of a Toyota RAV4 that had been rented by a friend of Morton\u2019s. The compact SUV was caught by the \u201cred light cameras\u201d in various places along the same route defined by the cell tower information.<\/p>\n

Lund\u2019s cell phone arrived at Calcagni\u2019s home around 1 a.m. the morning of Oct. 3, Rantissi testified. At 4:13 a.m., Lund texted Morton, \u201cstill waiting for pizza to get here.\u201d His phone remained at the site until 5:10 a.m.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right about the time a neighbor told SRPD Officer Robert Scalercio he heard \u201cmultiple loud pops\u201d in the neighborhood. Another neighbor\u2019s home security camera caught the RAV4 leaving the residence at that time, Rantissi said.<\/p>\n

Morton called Lund\u2019s VoIP number at 5:19 a.m. the morning of Oct. 3, according to Rantissi. Unable to reach him, she began calling his cell phone \u2014 five times in rapid succession.<\/p>\n

About 90 minutes after that, a passerby discovered Calcagni\u2019s body<\/a>. Near him was a pizza box, and a knife believed to have belonged to the victim.<\/p>\n

Lund wasn\u2019t the only person Morton was communicating with in the hours leading up to Calcagni\u2019s death, according to Rantissi. She was also texting her father about Calcagni\u2019s whereabouts. Morton\u2019s father also works or worked at the Condor Club, the detective said.<\/p>\n

Rantissi also introduced portions of his interviews with Morton, who he said made between $20,000 and $30,000 monthly at the Condor Club, through a combination of on-the-books employment and arranged drug sales.<\/p>\n

Among the revelations offered up by Morton during interrogation, according to Rantissi: Angry when Calcagni fired her, Lund told Morton, \u201cHe\u2019s f\u2014ing with your money.\u201d When Morton expressed her fears in the wake of Calcagni\u2019s death, Lund attempted to calm her down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if I told you I shot him in the face?\u201d Lund asked her at one point, according to the detective.<\/p>\n

Calcagni was indeed shot point blank in the face, Rantissi said, and it was not a matter of public record.<\/p>\n

Morton pleaded no contest<\/a> to a charge of accessory after the fact in early December.<\/p>\n

During cross-examination, Lund\u2019s defense attorney, Joe Bisbiglia, peppered Rantissi with questions about the precision of cell phone tower data, the ability of FLOCK cameras to capture entire license plate numbers, Calcagni\u2019s prior arrest for assault with a deadly weapon, and the Condor Club manager\u2019s relationship with Morton, which Bisbiglia suggested was \u201cmore than employee\/employer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rantissi acknowledged there is no known video evidence of Lund near Calcagni\u2019s home on Oct. 3, and no eyewitness accounts that place the defendant there. But he said he saw no evidence of an intimate relationship between Calcagni and Morton.<\/p>\n

In his summary to Judge Brown, Bisbiglia called the evidence insufficient. He particularly questioned whether Lund was \u201clying in wait,\u201d one of the murder enhancements.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was some sort of confrontation that allowed Mr. Calcagni to produce a dagger,\u201d Bisbiglia said. \u201cThe whole purpose of lying in wait is to ambush.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in his rebuttal, Chris Brown said Calcagni was \u201cvery much ambushed.\u201d The assailant, he argued, approached Calcagni from behind. There was no evidence of a struggle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the intent was to argue with (Calcagni), to fight with him, (Lund) knew where he worked,\u201d Brown said. \u201cInstead, (Lund) drove to his home and waited for hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

The judge ruled there was sufficient evidence to charge Lund with murder, and for violations related to accessing firearms and possessing ammunition.<\/p>\n

You can reach Phil Barber at 707-521-5263 or phil.barber@pressdemocrat.com. On X (Twitter) @Skinny_Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picking up where he left off a day earlier, Santa Rosa Police Department Detective Gino Rantissi on Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[18404,46776,18403,18411,101,103,102,5556,104,106,105,118812],"class_list":["post-274237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-condor-club","tag-flock-cameras","tag-mark-calcagni","tag-richard-lund","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-santa-rosa","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-voip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}