Ex-Teacher Faces Murder Trial After Family of 3 — Including Teen Son — Are Shot, Stabbed in Calif. Home
A former teacher in California is facing trial next Monday, six years after three people were killed in their East Oakland home. Dana Rivers, 67, is accused of fatally shooting and stabbing Patricia Wright, 57 and her wife Charlotte Reed, 56, as well as Wright’s 19-year-old son Benny Diambu-Wright. Police allege Rivers then set fire to the family’s home in an attempt to destroy the evidence. Rivers has pleaded not guilty to all charges and remains in prison on no bond....