Pastries at Shoreline WEEKEND | P.19 SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 VOLUME 19, NO. 34 INSIDE: MOVIES | PAGE 22 650.964.6300 MountainViewOnline.com Police still hope to charge killer in drug deal AT LEAST FOR NOW, KEY WITNESSES WON’T TESTIFY IN MURDER OF JEFFREY JOHNSON By Daniel DeBolt hopefully one day they will.” Everyone present during the t’s been almost four years shooting was a teenager at the since the case against three time. Recent arrests in another Isuspects fell apart in the local murder case, the 2005 shooting death of 20-year-old killing of Alex Fernandez, are a Mountain View resident Jeffrey reminder that when teenagers Johnson, but authorities remain become adults they are more hopeful that someone will even- likely to speak up about a mur- tually step forward to name the der. killer. “In the Fernandez case, we MICHELLE LE Johnson was shot Feb. 7, 2008 did find people who were more Members of all military branches, local police and fire officials, and civic dignitaries memorialize those in the midst of a drug deal with willing to give us informa- who died on September 11th in front of City Hall, during last year’s Mountain View Art & Wine Festival. three suspects in tion because time the Happi House went by, they grew parking lot at El up or were no City will remember 9/11 attacks at ceremony Camino Real and ‘You hope people longer involved Ehrhorn Avenue, come forward and in gang activ- PROCESSIONS TO CONVERGE ON CIVIC CENTER DURING ART AND WINE FESTIVAL police say. Several ity,” said police of his friends were do the right thing.’ spokeswoman Liz By Daniel DeBolt At 11 a.m. Sunday, two proces- lives. It was the largest single there, including Wylie. “Some- sions will converge on the Civic loss of firefighters in United one who was sit- RAY MENDOZA, one’s guilty con- n a ceremony set for Sunday Center plaza on Castro Street, States history. ting next to him DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY scious can weigh morning during the Art where city officials, police, fire- At 10 a.m. police will observe when he was shot on them. For a Iand Wine festival, the city fighters and local service clubs a national moment of silence while attempting decent person it is set to acknowledge the 10th will honor the 3,000 people who on their radios, following a to drive away in tends to sit on anniversary of the thousands died the day the twin towers fell, Congressional resolution that his Ford Explorer. In a different your shoulders. It doesn’t go of deaths that resulted from and the 343 firefighters and 60 “calls upon all of the people and car, another person was shot away as time goes on. In fact it the attacks on the World Trade police officers who responded in the leg during a car chase can get worse.” Center on Sept. 11, 2001. to the disaster and lost their See 9/11, page 15 through Old Mountain View. Eventually people also become Police believe there may be sev- less afraid to talk. “With the pas- eral witnesses who could poten- sage of time goes the passage of tially put the killer behind bars, fear,” Mendoza said. People who but perhaps out of fear, none are involved may tell someone Caltrain switches to new rail operator have talked, even when offered else about their involvement, and Over the next five months, Mo., firm. was scored in three major areas immunity. testimony from such people “is Caltrain operations will transi- The approval comes after a of criteria: the management, “I think we had a decent idea always helpful,” Mendoza said. tion from Amtrak to TransitA- 15-month bidding process that operations and maintenance who did it, we just can’t prove The police arrested two sus- merica Services Inc., following led to the comparison of five rail plan; the cost proposal; and the it beyond a reasonable doubt,” pects in the case in 2008, but the unanimous approval Thurs- operators, Caltrain officials said qualifications and experience said Santa Clara County Deputy both were released due to lack day, Sept. 1, by the Peninsula in a statement. of the firm and key personnel District Attorney Ray Mendoza. of evidence. Sunnyvale resident Corridor Joint Powers Board TransitAmerica submitted the proposed by the firm as the “We know who was there and Nathan Talarico, who appar- to contract with the St. Joseph, highest ranking proposal, which management team for the Cal- who was involved and we just ently fled after the shooting, was train service. need those people to come for- arrested in Mobile, Ala. Moun- The first full year of the five- ward. That’s what’s frustrating. tain View resident Jose Alfredo You hope people come forward See CALTRAIN, page 11 and do the right thing. And See JOHNSON, page 11 INSIDE GOINGS ON 24 | REAL ESTATE 27 | VIEWPOINT 18 apr.com Go to open.apr.com for the Bay Area’s only complete online open home guide. 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