It’s been nearly 40 years since two San Diego Police Officers pulled over a young black man named Sagon Penn in an Encanto neighborhood. What should have been a routine stop escalated into violence.

Sagon Penn, 23, shot and killed San Diego police Officer Thomas Riggs, 27, and wounded another officer and a civilian police observer following a traffic stop in Encanto. Within a hour of the ...

A Southeast community leader, Billy Moore, also said recently: “If we had not gone through what we did with Sagon Penn, things would have been very different.” San Diego hadn’t wanted to ...

Sagon Penn. Image from period video The trial of Sagon Penn would be a defining moment in San Diego’s history. Its battle lines were drawn early as typified by this quote from an editorial by ...

a fellow writer sent him an old newspaper article and with it a note asking if he knew the story of a man named Sagon Penn, the San Diego Police Department and the criminal trial that captivated ...

San Diego criminal attorney Bob Grimes described ... Justice, and the story of Sagon Penn,” is set to release in July. Its author, Peter Houlahan, interviewed Silverman extensively over the ...

True crime author Peter Houlahan has written a comprehensive history taking readers back to the 1985 case of a young Black man in San Diego who went on trial for the murder of one San Diego police ...