A 59-year-old Alamo man was arrested in connection with the death of Doris Penico on Thursday afternoon, Contra Costa County Sheriff's spokesperson Jimmy Lee said.
Police arrested Michael Littman at his home on the 3000 block of Stonegate Drive in Alamo at about 3:30 p.m Thursday for homicide, assault with a deadly weapon and felony battery. Police are holding him at the Martinez Detention Facility on $1 million bail.
On Friday, court officials said Littman was not on the calendar to be arraigned today. His earliest court date would be Tuesday due to the Labor Day holiday on Monday.
Last Monday around 11 a.m. Littman got into a fight with Penico's husband in the driveway on 3000 block of Stonegate Drive. During the fight, Doris was struck to the ground and hit her head on the cement driveway, according to Lee.
Doris, 59, was taken to John Muir Medical Center where she later died. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.
The neighbors have been involved in an on-going dispute regarding property, Lee said.
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It's absolutely tragic that she died the way she did, but, please don't paint her as an innocent victim here. It sounds like the fall that resulted in her death that day was a long, LONG time in the making, the conflict of which she did her fare share in creating.
"In Brazil the juvenile justice system, neighbourhoods and schools have begun to use Restorative Circles [26] [27] developed by Dominic Barter inspired by Nonviolent Communication. The approach involves a much wider circle of participants than conventional victim/offender conferencing, and begins with establishing a restorative system in the neighbourhood or school where circles will be held. As such, Barter's approach offers scope for radical social transformation. This process is being adopted in Germany, the USA, the UK, Canada and Uganda, and outside of the justice and education systems." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice
No one has mentioned the developer in all of this, but, only in California would you have two properties with each being valued at well over a million dollars, yet, they have to share a driveway. Unbelieavable.
There are people who "bug" you or "put their nose into your business" everywhere....it is not usually seen as justification for killing them. The comments are all very witch hunt like. btw I have lived in many neighborhoods in many cities, many of them quite diverse both culturally and economically, and simple good manners and taste demanded that you not cheer the death of a woman or say that killing her was a public service. That is nasty and indicates a lack of character.
Actually I was appalled to see the sheer venom that was listed in this column by the "neighbors"...So, no, I can say that nowhere I have lived would people behave this way. The biggest issue is not only that the comments are being made but that everyone in that neighborhood (or at least those posting) feel it is acceptable behavior.
Mike had the ability to buy another house, in another neighborhood, then sell his existing one. That would have been a better option, then continuing a mindless fight over perceived violations of his "territory". The same could be said for the neighbors. But who needs to live in a gated community anyways? There are 2 kinds of people. 1.) The people that want their privacy 2.) The other kind are those that use it as a wall against the outside. You don't share a driveway, if you want that privacy. 2 Lawyers living next to a Foreclosure shark, sharing a driveway, is a recipe for a reality show, not a happy home life. I foresee a big cash settlement & both parties leaving that neighborhood Eventually. Now it's all legal posturing It was an accident that shouldn't have happened The criminal justice system has been manipulated as leverage in some future civil litigation. The neighborhood maybe aghast, but ... Oh well ...
Husband in a physical altercation panic slip, fall, head crack finger pointing revisionism confused & threatened legal figures on scene further investigation: accident case closed let the civil litigation begin
There are plenty of beautiful places to live in the Bay Area: Tiburon, Piedmont, Hillsborough, Orinda......why live way east in a 'nouveau' wanna-be town where penny-pinching neighbors value their dirt more than human beings? Jean-Paul Sarte said that "hell is other people". Alamo sounds like a little slice of hell.
Now that video is out showing Mikie the Shark beating an undefended Victor to a bloody pulp and then body checking Doris to death, you may want to rethink your comments. Suggest you all pool your funds to defend the shark. That way you can all pay a little for -your- sins. For the rest of you, check out the satellite view of this neighborhood. See where these hateful people are bred.