Berkeley police arrested a 28-year-old man on Tuesday, three days after his girlfriend was found dead in the city\u2019s first suspected homicide of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police found the 37-year-old woman in her apartment on the 1900 block of California Street, where the property manager reported discovering a dead body. The victim\u2019s name has not been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a Wednesday statement, police said the woman appeared \u201cto have died after a physical assault.\u201d Evidence gathered during the investigation led police to her boyfriend,\u00a0Damarcus Jones. He was arrested in Dixon on suspicion of murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The case was being reviewed by the Alameda County District Attorney\u2019s Office for prosecution. The Alameda County Coroner\u2019s Office was also conducting an autopsy to determine the woman\u2019s official cause of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her death marked Berkeley\u2019s first suspected homicide since January 2025. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berkeley police arrested a 28-year-old man on Tuesday, three days after his girlfriend was found dead in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,7,723,332,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-346509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346509","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=346509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}