San Leandro police have released the names of the gunman and 14-year-old victim killed in a murder-suicide near San Leandro High School Thursday morning.

Alejandro Fajardo, 17, of Oakland, has been identified as the gunman who shot 14-year-old Nayanci Gonzalez before turning the gun on himself, San Leandro police Lt. Marc DeCoulode said Friday.

Gonzalez was walking from her home to the high school, where she was a sophomore, when Fajardo pulled up alongside her in a 1995 Chevrolet Camaro around 7:55 a.m., police reported.

Fajardo got out of the car at 136th and Wake avenues, walked up behind Gonzalez and shot her five times.

"She went down and he continued to shoot her," DeCoulode said.

Fajardo, only a few feet away from Gonzalez's body, then shot himself in the head.

Police have not determined the exact nature of the teenagers' relationship.

"It seems like at some point they had a closer relationship than just friends," DeCoulode said. "And perhaps that relationship was changing."

DeCoulode said the two met at a party about three months ago.

Gonzalez's family told police that they knew of Fajardo but weren't sure if the two teenagers were speaking to each other.

"Speculation is that they were probably speaking and talking to each other but a lot of people didn't know it," DeCoulode said.

The teenagers may have had a fight a couple of months ago but the altercation was "nothing that was documented," DeCoulode said.

Fajardo, who lived with his adult brother and another person in Oakland, did not leave a suicide note and apparently did not talk to anyone about what was to unfold Thursday morning, according to DeCoulode.

"He doesn't have a lot of family right now around here," the lieutenant said. Fajardo's parents reportedly are in Mexico.

Gonzalez lived with her brother in a residence very close to the high school. Her parents live in Hayward, DeCoulode said.

Accessory to murder charges against Esther Fielding of Lafayette were dismissed Friday after she agreed to testify truthfully in the case against her son, Scott Dyleski, on charges that he murdered the wife of a high profile defense lawyer.

Dyleski, 16, was arrested Oct. 19 in connection with the Oct. 15 slaying of Pamela Vitale, 52, at the Lafayette home she shared with her husband Daniel Horowitz, a criminal defense attorney who also does legal commentary on television.

Contra Costa County Deputy District Attorney Harold Jewett made a surprise motion to dismiss the accessory charges, which were only filed late Friday, shortly after Fielding, a short woman who was dressed in green jail clothes, was arraigned by Superior Court Judge David Flinn.

Speaking directly to Fielding in the courtroom, Jewett asked her to "listen to me very carefully," said he's "not unmindful of the position you're in" and said he was prepared to dismiss the charges if she promised to testify truthfully in all proceedings in the case.

Fielding said, "I do," and her attorney, Blackie Burak, said he would make sure she would live up to that promise.

Flinn then granted Jewett's motion to dismiss the charges against her.

Fielding, who was arrested Thursday, was expected to be released from the county jail, which is adjacent to the courthouse, sometime Friday night.

When Flinn arraigned Fielding, he told her she was charged with being an accessory on or after Oct. 15 until Oct. 27 because she knew her son had committed a murder and was charged with murder yet unlawfully harbored and aided him and helped him destroy evidence in the case.

Jewett and Burak declined to speak to reporters after Friday's brief court hearing because Flinn granted a temporary gag order Thursday barring anyone involved in the case from speaking to the news media.

Flinn will hold another hearing on Nov. 10 to consider whether to make the gag order permanent.

Cohen fled the country in 2001 after a federal judge in San Jose found that he had fraudulently obtained control of the Internet address www.sex.com in 1995 from its owner, Gary Kremen, and ordered him to pay Kremen more than $65 million in damages.

Cohen was subsequently found in contempt of court for failing to pay the damages and a warrant was issued for his arrest in April 2001, according to court documents.

Deputy U.S. Marshals tracked Cohen to Tijuana, Mexico and Mexican authorities arrested him at his residence there on Thursday. He then was handed over to the Marshals Service at the border in San Diego.

He is currently in custody in San Diego awaiting extradition to San Jose, according to the Marshals Service.

An elderly motorist was arrested for driving under the influence after causing three crashes while driving on the wrong side of U.S. Highway 101 near Windsor Thursday night, the California Highway Patrol said.

The CHP said Cedric Beebe, 83, of Oakmont, told CHP officer Richard Shuman he did not realize he had caused any of the crashes, one of which sent a Daly City woman to the hospital with major injuries.

The CHP and the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department received a call at 11:30 p.m. about a wrong-way driver on northbound Highway 101 just south of Dry Creek Road in Healdsburg.

Officers were getting into position to stop the driver when a gold 2003 Toyota Camry crashed after swerving to avoid a head-on collision with the wrong-way vehicle, the CHP said.

When the Camry swerved off the highway and collided with a tree, passenger Jessica Wong, 21, of Daly City, suffered a major head injury, several facial fractures, an eye injury, lacerations, a broken jaw and a broken left leg, the CHP said.

The Camry's driver, Anne Buchanan, 27, of Berkeley, suffered a broken left ankle, lacerations to her legs and arms and pain to her right knee, chest, neck and head. Both women were taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.

The CHP said Beebe kept driving his red Toyota Corolla south in the northbound lanes and caused a green 1994 Pontiac Grand Prix to swerve to avoid a collision just north of Arata Lane in Windsor. That driver, Jonathan Reid of Healdsburg, was not injured, but his vehicle sustained damage to the entire right side, the CHP said.

A sheriff's deputy saw the crash and entered the freeway just south of Arata Lane. The CHP said Deputy Don Fletcher was traveling with all his vehicle's emergency lights flashing as Beebe headed toward the patrol vehicle. Fletcher avoided a collision by swerving into the center divide, the CHP said. Fletcher suffered a minor injury and his car sustained minor damage.

CHP officers and sheriff's deputies then stopped Beebe in the center divider. Beebe was cooperative, but he said he didn't know he had caused any crashes, the CHP said.

After field sobriety tests were conducted, Beebe was arrested for DUI, DUI causing injury, hit-and-run causing injuries, wrong-way driving causing injury and reckless driving causing injury.

Beebe is being held under $30,000 bail in the Sonoma County jail and is to appear Monday in Sonoma County Superior Court.

California State University students will soon have to dig deeper into their pockets as it was announced that there would be a hike in tuition fees for the 2006-07 school year.

The university's Board of Trustees approved a fee increase proposal on Thursday that will raise undergraduate student and credential student fees by eight percent and increase graduate student fees by 10 percent, the university reported.

The university reported that the tuition increase is part of the Compact for Higher Education with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The agreement, which began during the 2005-06 school year, offers all 23 university campuses continued annual growth in state funding for basic budget and enrollment growth, and it extends into the 2010-11 school year, according to the university's Web site.

Undergraduates will see their current tuition fees increase from $2,520 to $2,724, and up to $3,368 the following school year with the addition of a campus-based fee, the university reported.

Graduate students that currently pay $3,102 will be paying $3,414 starting next year, according to the university.

In addition to the tuition increases, the university asked for a 3 percent increase in general fund appropriations, which currently total $2.6 billion, and a 2.5 percent increase in student enrollment.

The budget increase would give the university an additional $235.5 million, giving them funding access to a possible 10,000 more students.

The university reported that though the tuition increases may be a burden for students, it's 23 campuses offer fees that are still among the nations lowest.

Nevada authorities have identified a Napa doctor and his daughter as the victims of a plane crash in a wilderness area near the Nevada-Idaho border.

The Elko County Coroner's Office identified the victims Thursday night as Roy Grossman, 55, and his 17-year-old daughter Claire, Elko County Undersheriff Bill Cunningham said Friday afternoon.

Grossman's plane disappeared on Aug. 31 after he left an airport in Jackpot, Nev., planning to fly to Davis.

Cunningham said the bodies were found by two hunters on horseback Wednesday morning in the Jarbidge Wilderness Area.

Cunningham said the number on the tail of the wrecked plane matched that of the plane reported missing, Grossman's 1979 blue-and-white Piper Super Cub.

The wreckage was found around 11 a.m. Wednesday at an elevation of about 8,000 feet on the 10,000-foot Divide Peak. The crash site is about 10 miles from the Nevada-Idaho border, Cunningham said.

Cunningham said the victims' family members traveled to Elko County to recover the bodies.

San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales announced Friday that plans are underway for city officials to provide rebuilding assistance to Hattiesburg, Miss., the hurricane-ravaged town "adopted'' by the city council this week.

The adoption is part of a hurricane recovery program run by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

Gonzales requested Hattiesburg because former San Jose Vice Mayor Iola Williams relocated there after retiring from the city council in 1994. In addition, former Santa Teresa High School football star Rich Campbell now edits the Hattiesburg American newspaper.

"When disaster strikes, we look to our neighbors for help first. The deadly hurricanes this season have taught everyone that we're all neighbors in America, and we all can reach out to severely damaged communities to help them get back on their feet,'' Gonzales said.

Williams said the damage from Hurricane Katrina continues to be felt in Hattiesburg.

Hattiesburg is the fourth largest city in Mississippi with a population of approximately 50,000. It is located about 100 miles northeast of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. It suffered extensive storm damage as a result of Hurricane Katrina, and thousands of hurricane evacuees from other Mississippi communities and New Orleans also arrived in the city in the days and weeks following the storm.

City officials are working with their counterparts in Hattiesburg to determine the best way San Jose can assist, according to Gonzales's spokesman David Vossbrink.

Two teenage boys were shot, possibly with a shotgun, in a Gilroy shopping center parking lot Friday, the Gilroy Police Department reported.

Police responded to a shopping center at 6900 Chestnut St. around 4:20 p.m. on a report of a man down, Gilroy police Sgt. Kurt Svardal said. The first two officers to respond found the two boys in the parking lot.

The victims were transported to a hospital. Their current condition was not immediately available.

The suspect vehicle is described as a 1980s tan or brown Honda Accord-type vehicle, according to Svardal.

The occupants are described as two to four Hispanic males between the ages of 16 and 24.

Svardal said the shooting appears to be gang-related.

Hollister police reported that three people have been shot with shotguns in two separate incidents on the city's Central Avenue in the last six days. The suspect vehicle in the most recent Hollister shotgun shooting, which happened Thursday, was described as a white car, possibly a Honda, according to police.

Police have not said whether the shootings are related.

The Bay Area is expected to be mostly cloudy in the morning, with local light rain and fog until mid-morning., according to the National Weather Service.

The sun is expected to break through in the afternoon, with high temperatures reaching the upper 50s to lower 70s accompanied by west afternoon winds of 5 to 15 mph.

Tonight should be mostly clear. Low temperatures are expected to drop to the 40s to mid-50s, with northwest evening winds of 5 to 15 mph.

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