The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest Thursday.
Devonshire Little Store, located in San Carlos, was the scene of an unsolved murder in 1993. Since, it has become a pillar of the community.Rayna Hoffman-Ramos, a 61-year-old Oklahoma resident, was arrested last week on suspicion of murder in a nearly 30-year-old cold case that once rocked San Carlos, a quaint Bay Area city on the San Francisco Peninsula known more for its yearly tree-lighting ceremony than violent crime.
The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest Thursday, saying “the advancement in forensic technology” allowed them to identify the Oklahoma woman as a suspect in the jarring murder of Shu Ming Tang.
A look at 1993 editions of both the San Jose Mercury News and now-defunct The Times highlighting the murder of Shu Ming Tang, a San Carlos store owner.“With an abundance of pride, I announce a significant development in a 1993 cold case murder of Shu Ming Tang, having occurred in the city of San Carlos,” San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos G. Bolanos said at Thursday’s press conference. “This was a cold case for nearly three decades. Today I can announce that we’ve made an arrest and justice for Mr.
After a whirlwind 24 hours that included Thursday visits from three Bay Area TV stations and several local newspapers , Devonshire Little Store was mostly business as usual on Friday, with customers trickling in for sundries. Chung Sun, a Taiwanese immigrant who bought the Little Store three months after Tang’s death and has fielded unanswerable questions about the case for almost three decades, told SFGATE the arrest brought forth a mixture of emotions.“Customers ask me about it all the time, and I just say, ‘no, no, no.’ Now I can say, ‘This lady did it,’” he said Friday. “I have an answer. Next time people come in they’ll be happy about the cold case being solved.”“My interest is why?” he said.
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