Earlier today, the California Highway Patrol announced that a pedestrian had been struck and killed by a hit and run driver about 12:40 this morning. Now they have released information on the possible vehicle. They stated,
Through several investigative leads, Humboldt CHP has discovered that the vehicle involved is possibly a Dark Blue full sized pickup truck with damage to the undercarriage and wheel wells. We have determined that there may have been multiple occupants in the suspect vehicle. If anyone has any information that may help identify the person or persons responsible for this collision please contact the Humboldt CHP Office at (707)822-5981 during business hours or the Humboldt Communications Center at (707)268-2000 after business hours.
Hang ALL of the SOB’s high from a tree for running after killing a innocent person. This is nothing short of murder and they need to be held accountable. And I don’t need to hear that they got scared because they were possibly under the influence of drugs or alcohol (which no one forced them to take or drink). Murder is Murder.
I am really curious to see how this one pans out compared to the Marci Kitchen case. I bet they will be right on it with this one while Marci walks away with a slap on the hand. She needs to be hung.
Wow Kim I’m surprised that you allow threats on ur page but put them up even if it’s a accusation but I think you could b held accountable for that since its ur website that you post things on. And I thought you said you don’t post things like this hanging or encouragement of vialance, well you just did for people to do, but good one there and we all wish it could b like the old days. And trust me people get held accountable for less talk that’s here on this page cause an accusation could b held as a threat in court!!!
Are you talking about the ‘she should be hung’ comments? While I personally am against the death penalty, I don’t censor statements about it. There are a couple of states that still allow it..
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This is a press release from the Eureka Police Department. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
On March 11, 2018, at about 8:00 a.m., the Eureka Police Department Communications Center began receiving calls regarding a male and female with stab wounds and a robbery that had occurred. Based on the investigation, it appears the incident occurred as follows.
36 year old Jessica Minasian and 42 year old Brian Bickerstaff confronted a male sleeping on the sidewalk on the 300 block of F Street. Minasian and Bickerstaff yelled at the man to leave and began assaulting him. Bickerstaff assaulted the male with blunt weapons. The male took out a knife, in an effort to stop the assault. The male ultimately stabbed Minasian and was able to flee. He was soon able to obtain police assistance. Minasian and Bickerstaff took items belonging to the male and also left the scene.
Minasian ran to Humboldt Bay Fire Station at the 500 block of C Street for medical assistance. She was transported to the hospital by ambulance with a significant but non-life threatening injury. Bickerstaff was located at the intersection of 4th and F Streets and had a small laceration on his chin.
Both Bickerstaff and Minasian were transported to the hospital for medical treatment. Due to the care required for Minasian’s injuries, she was cited and released to the hospital staff.
Bickerstaff was arrested for robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Bickerstaff was transported and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility. Bickerstaff is being held on $50,000 bail.
I have seen this thug harass elderly homeless a few times over the years. he’s an R street bridge troll. I assume he uses the pay for protection scheme.
Had friends staying at unnamed rv park by the bridge with kayaking behind the airstrip and believe this thing was driven off, loudly, after trying to steal a portable generator. Maybe, maybe not- but that thing had a machete and was trying to cut a chain, before learning not to bring knives to certain shows.
Eureka needs a wall, Escape From New York style, it’s lost and good people should begin evacuation to safer areas and hold tight.
Walls and armored bulldozers are needed to stop The Bum Insurgency, and try to salvage what can be saved.
she has no previous arrest record. she has lived in Eureka prior to being homeless. most likely an evicted addict like most. we have seen his mugshot on this site before. same crime, different outcome. maybe we should arm the homeless with guns? its tweakers like this that give tweakers a bad name.
I am the father of Jessica. Jessica is a meth addict, to state the obvious. She is a walking cautionary tale.
Jessica graduated with honor roll grades from a small arts high school in Berkeley. Her life was full of opportunity – she easily could have gone to a UC or a private liberal arts college, and I would have happily paid her way but, the day after she graduated, she demanded to go up to Eureka where her alcoholic druggie mother lived. I bought her a used Volvo, wished her well, and hoped she would take a few months and come back to “civilization.” She soon totalled the Volvo and, six months later she was addicted to meth and pregnant, and over the years has lost her three (or is it four?) children to adoption due to her addiction. Jessica has now been addicted to meth for 18 years. Her teeth are rotted out and she looks horrible.
You see that mug shot in the news article? Well, here’s the last of “healthy” Jessica at my sister’s wedding in 2000, in the company of a Nobel Peace Prize winning freedom fighter…
That’s what meth does. It takes lovely human beings by the soul and makes them rot from the inside out.
If she made honor-roll grades, why hadn’t she applied and been accepted to colleges in the months before she graduated? Then, at least, she would have had a plan to continue her education, maybe hook up with a friend, and be roommates at some school–didn’t she have any friends in school who were planning college? Weren’t they surprised she had no plans after graduation?
It’s a little hard to believe this sudden visit to her “alcoholic druggie mother” changed all her life plans. Something must have been brewing long before this…
It was not a sudden visit. Jessica spent her entire childhood dealing with her mother – a lot of trauma, a lot of sadness, a lot of shame. And a good deal of effort trying to help a parent who is self-destructive.
It’s a sad story and I’m sorry for your difficulties, your daughter’s difficulties. Maybe things will turn for the better–have hope!
Jessica isn’t a bad woman just addicted and emotionally detached from reality due to child loss. That guy is prob the one who plotted and carried out the crime. It’s not in her nature
And that would be the third child she has lost due to drugs… the other two never made it out of the hospital with her and were put up for adoption.
I was just going to say we beat that dude silly behind the Dinsmore store around Christmas time. I think it will go better for him in the city. He has been seen in Dinsmore and Ruth
And a sad reflection of our culture and community that he was homeless to the point of sleeping on the streets, and needed to protect himself from urban predators.
If the cops had rousted him for sleeping on the sidewalk, he would have been arrested for the knife….
I wonder if it was the guy who sleeps over in the Carson Block doorway. He doesn’t seem to cause much trouble.
a deadly weapon, possession of methamphetamine, unlawful possession of a concealed dirk or dagger (two fixed-blade knives were located in his pockets),
That was 11 months ago. How long in jail do you expect him to spend for being a pathetic dummy? Which at that point was the general nature of the charges.
Just a “pathetic dummy,” ?–Carrying around a concealed dirk/dagger, brandishing his deadly weapons, under the influence of meth… this is not just some poor loser. This guy’s a walking violent crime in the making. How long do i think he should be in jail? Depends on how good the probation program is. Maybe 11 months would be long enough, if we knew that when he came out he would have constant supervision, no access to meth or other deadly drugs, and no personal freedom to pick up and carry around hidden (or unhidden) weapons.
Without that, i’d say “forever” would be how long i’d keep him under lock and key. Someone who attacks poor homeless people in their sleep! Jayyyyyzus. No. This creep has no right to walk around among the innocent. No rights at all. Forfeited when he decided to take out his revenge for being born on other living beings.
He was not a pathetic dummy, but people who defend and enable a pos like this are! Why don’t you spend your energy rehabilitating him in YOUR home, and save us other taxpayers the bill for incarcerating him?? YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM! People like you are exactly why this shit will never change in Eureka.
Ernestine, what the fuck exactly are you doing to “move our economy back to sanity”? Besides defending armed felons. Seriously, clue us in. Inquiring minds want to know.
Omg the walking dead!! Higher Power needs to help us all but especially the addicted and violent . Soon! Cuz , Geez makes ya feel not safe.
This guy, and many others, continue to commit crimes time and time again, and our supervisors and city council are scratching their heads wondering how to clean up Eureka and attract tourism. Un friggin’ believable!
Seriously? Do you think he has some mystical message? It means he is a person who makes very bad choices.
Pffft. He’ll be out by tomorrow. He seems to have more authority in this town than any law enforcememt or public official. He’s an extortionist, a con-man, and a bully It’s pathetic really; he basically collects “protection” money so “bad things” don’t happen to those around him; and yet he IS the bad thing. It’s only a matter of time before he murders someone, but even then EPD and Eureka City Council will probably still be kissing his ass.