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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2023
City looks to bring back e-bikes By Monica Stark Enterprise staff writer
After about three years, rentable e-bikes, and this time e-scooters, will be hitting the streets of Davis as “the collegiest college town” in California once again will bustle with students in a couple of months. At its July 18 meeting, the Davis City Council unanimously voted to authorize the city manager and city attorney to finalize and execute a memorandum of understanding for a three-year contract with SPIN micromobility and UC Davis. Starting in August, Spin plans to grow their fleet in Davis to have 400 e-bikes and 200 scooters ready to ride the week of Sept. 18. All users must be 18 and over, a requirement met with scorn from public commenters. SPIN micromobility would be the second of its kind in Davis. In 2018 Jump, then owned by Uber, provided 120 to 180 e-bikes that served both UC Davis and the city of Davis until the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic. In February 2020, Jump ceased their operation and removed all their e-bikes from Davis. In spring of 2020, Uber sold Jump bikes and scooters to Lime, which took over the
See E-BIKES, Page A4
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Carlos Reales Dominguez, charged with fatally stabbing two men in Davis and wounding a third victim, appears at Yolo Superior Court on Monday in Woodland as Judge Samuel McAdam presides over a trial where a jury will decide if he is mentally competent to face charges.
Expert: Suspect not competent for trial By Lauren Keene Enterprise staff writer
stand trial for a series of violent Davis crimes.
WOODLAND — Carlos Reales Dominguez “is a textbook example of schizophrenia,” according to the courtappointed psychologist who evaluated the former UC Davis student to determine whether he’s mentally competent to
Dr. Juliana Rohrer says she based her opinion, which she just recently narrowed from the “schizophrenia spectrum” to a specific schizophrenia diagnosis, on her own three-hour evaluation of Dominguez in the Yolo County Jail, along with
other supporting evidence. Those included witness statements, jail medical records, other doctors’ evaluations and video of Dominguez’s nearly eight-hour interview with Davis police following his May 3 arrest in connection with the stabbing deaths of David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm,
as well as the attempted killing of Kimberlee Guillory.
“He is not competent at this time,” Rohrer testified under questioning by Dominguez’s public defender, Dan Hutchinson, who has the burden of proving his client’s incompetence.
See TRIAL, Page A7
Dynamic duo leaving DHS athletics department By Bruce Gallaudet Enterprise correspondent Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson. Administrative Assistant Laurie Williams. Together, this dynamic duo has greased the skids to allow Davis High teams and individual studentathletes to earn more 150 section championships in the past 10 years — topping the total of any other Sacramento Valley school. But last month, after 18 years and working with four different ADs, Williams told colleagues about her departure after the 2023-24 school year. Now comes word this week that Lorenson also will depart DHS; he’s headed to the Sac-Joaquin
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Section as assistant commissioner, effective immediately. “I’ve always been drawn to the work the section office is doing … and now I feel like I can make an impact on a larger scale,” Lorenson, 42, explained. “Professionally, this is the next step in my career, and (the opportunity) came at short notice.” But Lorenson says his decision is bittersweet: “I love Davis. I love the community, the students and their families, the coaches. It’s those people I’ll miss. “From Day 1, I always felt accepted as a member of
See DUO, Page A7
WEATHER Saturday: Sunny, seasonably warm. High 94. Low 57.
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Davis High Athletic Director Jeff Lorenson stands next to the synthetic turf installed at Ron and Mary Brown Stadium on Dec. 6, 2019.
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