A sheriff's deputy won't be charged for fatally shooting 13-year-old Andy Lopez as he walked with a BB pellet rifle that resembled an AK-47 in Santa Rosa last October, in a shooting that triggered a ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KGO) -- The Sonoma County Sheriff announced a $3 million settlement in an excessive force lawsuit filed by the family of Andy Lopez, a 13-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a ...

The shooting death of a 13-year-old Santa Rosa boy has reignited a national debate on the wisdom of manufacturing BB, pellet and airsoft guns to look like firearms, and whether new laws or bans are ...

Then, on a sleepy October afternoon just south of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County sheriff's deputies encountered 13-year-old Andy Lopez, who was walking along Moorland Avenue carrying an airsoft-style BB ...

Sonoma County supervisors took further steps Tuesday in their response to the Andy Lopez shooting, naming most of their appointees to a community task force that will study models for future citizen ...

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office has promoted deputy Erick Gelhaus who shot and killed 13-year-old Andy Lopez just outside Santa Rosa to sergeant with an accompanying pay increase, KQED has learned.

Activists involved in ongoing protests over last year's shooting death of 13-year-old Andy Lopez say they've become the targets of police intimidation and harassment. Two of the activists, 15-year-old ...