By Demian Bulwa, Henry K. Lee, Carolyn Jones, and Jaxon Van Derbeken
San Francisco Chronicle
VALLEJO — A string of crimes that left five people dead and one of the victims’ sons missing may have been prompted in part by jealousy, investigators said Wednesday as they tried to untangle a web of violence that ended with officers fatally shooting the main suspect.
The suspect, 38-year-old Efren Valdemoro, beat a 73-year-old man to death in Hercules because he thought there was “something going on” romantically between the man or his son - who is still missing - and Valdemoro’s girlfriend, said Hercules police spokeswoman Michelle Harrington.
The body of Valdemoro’s strangled girlfriend - Cindy Tran, 46 - was in the passenger seat as he led police on a high-speed freeway chase across the East Bay on Tuesday night that ended at a Richmond mall. There, two California Highway Patrol officers shot him to death when he waved a cleaver at them, authorities said.
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