The men accused of killing the owner of a barbershop in San Diego two years ago were found guilty by a jury Thursday.

The jury's guilty verdict came down just before 2 p.m., in the trial of defendant Ian Guthrie, 40, charged in the ambush-retaliation murder of Lamar Canady, 32, a barber shot at his business on 54th and Redwood streets in Oak Park on May 9, 2014. Another defendant, Peter Johson, aka Dion Chambers, was also found guilty.

According to investigators, Canady suffered at least 16 gunshot wounds, including many to his head, when two suspects – Guthrie and Peter Johnson, 51 – entered his Official Cutz barbershop and riddled the business with bullets.

News of the shooting spread quickly in the community, causing uproar among residents. As police investigated, concerned residents flooded the streets in search of answers.

After the shooting, San Diego police released surveillance photos and a video to the public in hopes of tracking down the suspects. Guthrie was arrested in connection with Canady’s murder in late August 2014, along with Johnson.

According to investigators, one of the suspects was at a nearby liquor store just before the shooting. That suspect's DNA was found on a beer car and was later used to link the suspect to the crime.

Johnson was arrested in Kansas City, Mo., and later extradited to San Diego. He has been held at the Vista Detention Facility since September 2014 on $10 million bail on a first-degree murder charge. Guthrie, also charged with first-degree murder, has been at the South Bay Detention Facility on $5 million bail.

According to the victim’s aunt, Canady was well-known in the community, described as an “ambitious, smart, funny, witty” man. He left behind a wife and four children at the time of his shooting, including a newborn baby girl.

For the past two years, the victim’s mother, Lucy Canady, has sought justice for her son – a man she says just wanted to do good things for his community.

“He was just trying to be somebody and get somewhere in life,” she said. “His dream was to get the barbershop – do things in life.”

Last April, Lucy went to a preliminary hearing for the suspects accused of killing her son and, when she came face-to-face with the men, the mother said she couldn't help but wonder why this all happened to her son.

“It’s something I really can’t explain. It’s just a hurt feeling,” she told NBC 7 at the time.

Former President Bill Clinton will be in Chula Vista and Rancho Santa Fe Saturday to campaign for Hillary Clinton ahead of the June 7th primary is California.

The event in Chula Vista starts at 11:30 a.m. at the Bonita Vista High School on Otay Lakes Road.

Door will open half an hour earlier.

You can RSVP here.

This campaign is part of a California tour for Hillary Clinton which includes stops in Pomona, Bakersfield, Fresno, Delano, Stockton and Sacramento.

In addition, NBC 7 has confirmed Bill Clinton will be speaking at The Inn at Rancho Santa Fe on Linea Del Cielo in Rancho Santa Fe.

The event starts at 1:00 p.m. Saturday.

Meanwhile, San Diego will play host to Clinton's rival campaign as well.

Bernie Sanders will rally in National City and Vista this weekend, ramping up his efforts ahead of California's primary.

Brazil-based Spoleto, a fast-casual Italian restaurant chain that lets customers choose ingredients for their entrees, plans to open six of its first seven California locations in San Diego County.

The first will be opening in Irvine following an expected completion in early October 2016, according to San Diego-based architecture firm Delawie, which designed the Irvine restaurant and is in talks to design more Southern California locations.

The Irvine eatery will be followed by six others planned in San Diego County. Specific locations are not being released, pending real estate acquisitions, but the eateries are slated to open in coming years in University Towne Center, Mission Valley, Mira Mesa, Pacific Beach, La Mesa and Encinitas.

The Irvine restaurant will open at University Center, near UC Irvine. Delawie officials said the 3,200-square-foot-interior concept includes an open dining room where customers will be able to watch their food being prepared by Spoleto chefs, and the eatery will also have a 600-square-foot exterior dining patio.

The franchised restaurants, which carry the name Spoleto – My Italian Kitchen, operate with a format similar to chains such as Chipotle Mexican Grill, applied to Italian items. Customers choose from an array of fresh ingredients on a menu that includes pastas, flatbreads and salads.

Started in 2007, Spoleto is headquartered in Rio de Janeiro and operates more than 400 restaurants in countries including Brazil, Mexico and Spain. Its first U.S. restaurants opened last year in Florida.

Delawie was founded in 1961 and is led by principals M. Andrew Rodrigues, Paul Schroeder, Frank Ternasky and Michael Asaro. It has more than 50 design professionals and is currently at work on other projects including a Moxy hotel by Marriott and Canopy by Hilton, both in downtown San Diego.

Noise caused by military jets flying overhead late at night is becoming a problem for some residents in the Torrey Pines area.

A Carmel Valley woman recorded video of a jet flying over her home near MCAS Miramar and showed the video to NBC 7.

She said the flights occur all day until very late into the night.

Using an app, she even measured the noise which, by her count, is 80 decibels.

“I wake up at 6 in the morning and it’s peaceful and quiet and then all of a sudden,” said Anne Clark. “Once I hear the first one come, that’s my day. Every 30 minutes, ‘Boom.’”

A spokesman from U.S. Rep. Scott Peter's office said they have received a number of calls over the past few weeks about excessively loud jets and helicopters.

When NBC 7 called MCAS Miramar, we received the following statement:

“Usually increased night operations are necessary when units are preparing to deploy or need required night training. Our normal airfield hours fluctuate and are subject to change based on operational requirements. The Marines aboard MCAS Miramar work hard to minimize impacts on the nearby communities and to be good neighbors.”

This is not the first time residents have complained about the noise of military aircraft in the skies over San Diego.

In September 2013, NBC 7 reported on complaints surrounding F/A-18's from MCAS Miramar, flying out of Brown Field.

At that time, Col. Christopher Keane, USMC, the Third Marine Aircraft Wing’s Inspector General said, "We are protecting your right to complain."

It was in the 4100 block of Lake Boulevard, that a drunk driver with a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, struck Baby Izaiah's stroller and forever altered the future course of the toddler and his family. 

After six years, multiple surgeries, thousands of hours of therapy and testing "Baby Izaiah", now a first grader, is finding his laugh.

His father, Jacob Wallis says progress is slow going but he sees Izaiah making small strides in this journey to a more normal life.

“He is getting the brain recovery back, it's great to see . He is doing everything the doctor said he wouldn't do,” Wallis said.

At 18 months old, Izaiah was hit by teenage drunk driver Noe Hernandez. The toddler was thrown from this stroller barely recognizable after the collision. At the time his grandfather was pushing him down Lake Boulevard.

“He was internally decapitated and he was blind for about the first month,” Wallis said. 

The fact that Izaiah lived was nothing short of a miracle. Jacob says he and his wife Lucy Verde were told their son would likely never progress beyond a vegetative state.

“Just trying to do everything I can to keep him busy. Not being so focused on him being a sick kid in the room all the time,” Wallis said.

Izaiah has permanent brain damage, he's paralyzed from the chest down. His vision is impaired, and he needs a respirator to breathe much of the time.

Despite the avalanche of hurdles, father and son are finishing the race.

“He's always been a fighter He never gives up and he loves going to therapy,” Wallis said. 

In therapy, Izaiah is doing strength training. Exercising his muscles and his damaged brain. 

"He's able to hold himself up on his legs. He's definitely doing some crawling getting upper body strength," Wallis said.

It is baby steps for a not-so-"baby Izaiah" anymore. Still it shows promise and gives his parents hope. 

“Every day, I look down the hallway and just wish that I can see him walking towards me and calling me dad. That would probably be the best moment of my life,” Wallis said. 

Wallis says if it weren't for the organization "Passion for Kids" and the great generosity of the San Diego community, Izaiah would not have the special care and the family could never afford what has amounted to more than a million dollars in treatment.

Presumptive GOP nomoniee Donald Trump has confirmed he will be in San Diego on Friday, May 27th. 

He will appear at the San Diego Convention Center in Downtown at 2:00 p.m.

His visit comes just before the June 7th primary in California.

Trump will also make stops in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Billings, Montana next week.

You can register for tickets here.

Christy Knisely was among the Good Samaritans who helped save a man’s life after his truck flew off northbound Interstate 5 into the Agua Hedionda Lagoon in Carlsbad.

She was on her way home from work when she saw a pick-up truck driving erratically behind her, then race past.

CHP says the driver was going 100 miles per hour.

Minutes later, she says instinct kicked in when she realized it had flown off the freeway into the lagoon. 

“It’s human life and there's nothing more important in my opinion," Knisely said.

The rescue effort included several employees from California Water Sports.

They jumped on jet skis and raced to the rescue of the 28-year-old Oceanside man pinned in the truck, driver’s side down in the water.

“He was pinned in the car and I tried to pull him out of the water so he wouldn’t drown,” said Josh Cantor, Owner of California Water Sports.

“I saw the vehicle and just knew we had to get the person out  of the vehicle. That’s all I could think about,” said Knisely.

Knisely put her  Navy training to work, feeling for a pulse she says wasn’t there. She also noticed a gaping wound that went around the driver’s head.

“I just put my hands toward his sternum,” said Knisely. “ I knew I had to go there and started with my left hand just to give compressions is all I could do, because my right hand was holding his head."

She says after what seemed like forever, the man finally showed a sign of life after someone else helped to give compressions.

Knisely just hoping the 28-year-old man hadn’t taken his last breath.

“Whether or not that person completely survives tragedy or not, I felt like we gave his family a chance. Hopefully, it's not to say goodbye," she said.

CHP believes alcohol may have played a role in the crash. 

A man was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the doorway of a National City bar early Friday, police said.

National City Police on patrol heard five gunshots just a few minutes after 1 a.m. Soon after, police said they received several 911 calls from 108 W 25th Street.

Officers found a shooting victim at Stoney's Bar and Grill with multiple gunshot wounds.

“It does appear it happened in the doorway,” said Sgt. Thomas Wilkins with National City PD. “Smack dab in front.”

The man was described by officials as 32 years old.

Officials say he was rushed to a local trauma center with life-threatening injuries.

When officers got to the scene, they also spotted a grey sedan speeding away with its lights off.

Officers detained the two men inside that car just a few yards away from the bar.

It's still unclear whether these men are suspects or connected to this shooting.

The area along 25th Street from Hoover to Transportation Avenue was blocked off to traffic because of the investigation.

No other information was immediately available.

Check back for updates on this breaking news story. 

A spokesman for Egypt's military confirmed Friday that search parties found debris from a missing EgyptAir passenger plane in the Mediterranean sea, NBC News reported.

Egypt's Army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said on his verified Facebook page Friday that his military's search jets and vessels had discovered parts of the plane along with some passengers' belongings about 180 miles north of the city of Alexandria.

A body part and suitcases were recovered, according to Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos. Egypt's Ministry of Defense would not confirm or deny the information.

Families of the 66 people on board Flight MS804 have been waiting in anguish for news following 24 hours of conflicting information and rampant speculation over what happened to the aircraft.

Friday's news comes after an earlier announcement from EgyptAir about finding debris was retracted. Samir told NBC News by phone Friday the military is certain the debris comes from Flight MS804.

A suburban Chicago school district is under fire after school officials refused to let a high school student walk at graduation because she was wearing a military uniform instead of a cap and gown.

According to students, McHenry High School West Campus did not let Megan Howerton, a U.S. Marine, walk during the school’s graduation ceremony Thursday night, citing a dress code issue because she was wearing her dress blues. 

News of the decision was posted to social media, where it stirred controversy among many and sparked the hashtag #Letmeganwalk.

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McHenry Community High School District 156 addressed the criticism in a statement Friday, saying "the attention related to last night’s graduation ceremony at McHenry High School West Campus is unfortunate and draws attention away from the collective achievements of the Class of 2016."

"The district and administration in no way looked to prevent the participation of this graduate or any graduate who has chosen to serve our nation,” the statement read. "Rather, the administration communicated in advance via letter, senior meeting, and practice, all the protocols expected of graduates, including attire. In some past cases, active-duty students elected to wear their gowns over top of their military uniforms, with their military hats, which was allowed. There was no communication to the administration that attire protocols would not be followed prior to the ceremony. The tradition of cap and gown regalia is aimed at the idea that our graduates are celebrated as a whole and in similar attire.”

Many have since noted that it is against protocol to cover up the uniform, however.

According to the U.S. Marine Corps Uniform Board, wearing a cap and gown over a uniform is not allowed as it is considered similar to outerwear.

Sgt. Trevon Peracca also confirmed Howerton is a Marine, saying she graduated early from the school and completed boot camp.

"McHenry Community High School has a long standing history of avid support for our military branches of service," the school said in a statement. "This includes individual recognition of enlistees at the graduation ceremony itself, including enlistees in the presentation of the colors, and special recognition to all veterans in the audience. In addition, the cooperation with recruiters year-round, a day-long, Veteran’s Day program in our schools each year, and a variety of community service partnerships with local veteran’s groups are priorities of the district."

Howerton could not immediately be reached for comment.

About 900 local elementary school students came together on Friday morning at South Mission Beach to share a message, figuratively and literally.

After spending time cleaning litter from the sand, the students joined together to create a striking image that read "Sea Change" with a crab design.

The stunning formation was spotted by the NBC 7 news chopper just before 11 a.m.

The event was part of the annual Kids' Ocean Day Event in San Diego, which is one of six cities nationwide that participate to encourage students to become lifelong stewards of marine life.

The event is organized locally by I Love A Clean San Diego (ILACSD), whose organizers estimate there are 5 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans.

The demonstration aims to encourage everyone to keep oceans clean.

Sarah Buchholz, spokeswoman for ILACSD, said the students love taking part in something this large-scale and creative.

"One of our students said she had never done something like this before," she said.

Eater San Diego shares the top stories of the week from San Diego’s food and drink scene, including a look at Pacific Beach's new entertainment playground, the scoop on a cool liquid nitrogen ice cream concept and word on a Temecula winery's expansion.

Moonshine Beach Brings Live Music & Dancing to PB
A sister concept to the East Village's Moonshine Flats, Moonshine Beach opens this weekend as a new live music destination and dance hall for Pacific Beach. Specializing in hosting big-name country acts, the good time venue also features line dancing and DJs. 

Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Concept Coming Soon
Creamistry, a frozen treats concept that has a location in Temecula, will open an outpost in Kearny Mesa next month. The dessert shop features ice cream that's rapidly frozen with liquid nitrogen; the concoction can be customized with an assortment of ice cream bases, from 100 percent organic to dairy-free, with additional toppings, flavorings and sauces.

Callaway Winery & Vineyard to Open Gaslamp Tasting Room
A prominent wine estate with a grand facility in Temecula wine country will soon stomp down some roots in the Gaslamp Quarter in downtown San Diego. Eater has learned the winery will open a tasting room on Fourth Avenue sometime this year, which will also offer retail sales and a light food component. 

Old School Italian Eatery Enters East Village
RMD Group, which also operates downtown's Rustic Root and Don Chido, has launched Salvucci's Ristorante near Petco Park. Open for lunch and dinner, the restaurant is cooking up a menu of traditional Italian dishes, including homemade pasta, pizza and more.

Central Coast Winery Expanding Into Little Italy
Pali Wine Co., which produces award-winning Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in the Lompoc area, will debut a satellite tasting room on India Street this July. The winery, which also runs a tasting room in Santa Barbara, will offer wine on tap and refillable growlers at its Little Italy location.

A man approached a White House security checkpoint with a gun Friday afternoon and was shot by a Secret Service agent when he refused to put down the weapon, authorities said. 

The White House was locked down for about an hour. Everyone under the protection of the Secret Service is safe, the agency said. 

The shooting occurred within view of sightseers outside the White House, near sidewalks crowded with families, school groups and government workers.

The man with the gun approached a Secret Service guard post at 17th and E streets NW, just west of the White House compound, about 3 p.m., a Secret Service spokesman said. 

The man refused to put down the gun and was shot by a Secret Service agent.

Law enforcement officials identified the man as Jesse Olivieri from Ashland, Pennsylvania, NBC News reports.

"Secret Service Uniformed Division Officers gave numerous verbal commands for the subject to stop and drop the firearm," the agency said in a statement. "When the subject failed to comply with the verbal commands, he was shot once by a Secret Service agent and taken into custody."

Olivieri is in critical condition and was rushed to George Washington University Hospital, a D.C. Fire and EMS representative said.

The suspect's gun was recovered at the scene, officials said.

Olivieri is believed to have wanted to commit "suicide by cop" and be killed by an officer, law enforcement sources told NBC News.

Witness Larry Samples told News4 he saw a man with a silver gun walk toward the White House. Secret Service agents repeatedly ordered him to stop and drop the weapon, but he ignored them, Samples said. A Secret Service agent then shot the man.

"They gave him multiple chances to stop his advance," Samples said.  

Witness Taylor Cates said she saw a man with a blank expression walk with a gun in plain sight and then get shot.

Witness Odis Bellinger, who was visiting the White House from Detroit, said he was near a security checkpoint when he heard three shots and was told to run.

“I’m from Detroit and we don’t even see that there," Bellinger said.

Lamman Rucker, a D.C. native and actor who appeared in the movie "Why Did I Get Married?" was lined up to enter the White House when he heard shots.

"Literally out of nowhere, you’ve got different officers and different agencies that just ascended upon that entry point with the quickest of speed," he said.

Nearby, on Constitution Avenue NW, D.C. police searched a white sedan with a Pennsylvania license plate. Police are determining whether the car is a threat.

President Barack Obama departed the White House about 1 p.m. for a golf outing at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, according to White House pool reports. His motorcade arrived there about 1:30 p.m.

Vice President Joe Biden was inside the building, according to multiple reports.

First lady Michelle Obama was wrapping up a speech in downtown Washington at midday Friday. Her office would not say whether she, or the Obama daughters, were at the White House at the time.

Reporters in the White House said on Twitter they were ordered to shelter in place in the basement of the building.

"At this time, based on a preliminary investigation, there is no known nexus to terrorism. However, an investigation continues into the motives behind his actions," read a joint statement released Friday night by D.C. and federal law enforcement.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said District officials are coordinating with federal officials.

On March 28, the U.S. Capitol was locked down after a Capitol police officer shot and injured a man who police say brought a BB gun into the building's visitor center. Witnesses described a chaotic scene near the Capitol as tourists and others in the area ran to seek shelter. The suspect was critically injured, and police charged him with assault with a deadly weapon and assault on a police officer while armed. 

Stay with News4 and NBCWashington.com for more details on this developing story.

Authorities in Georgia have released body camera footage showing the last moments of an apparently out-of-control Florida man who deputies repeatedly stunned with a Taser while struggling to subdue him.

The confrontation ended with 32-year-old Chase Sherman dead by the side of a highway; logs indicate he was stunned 15 times. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the incident. 

Sherman's parents, Kevin and Mary Ann Sherman, told NBC News they intend to file a wrongful death lawsuit.

Coweta County District Attorney Peter Skandalakis said "the review of this case in not complete" and that the footage was released "in recognition of the great public interest in this matter."

The deputies who had repeatedly ordered Sherman to stop fighting them during the Nov. 20 encounter also appeared stunned, according to video footage.

A group of Cuban rafters who climbed atop the American Shoal Lighthouse near Key West Friday have come down, U.S. Coast Guard officials said.

A group of 19 rafters climbed on the lighthouse about eight miles from shore near Saddlebunch Key around 9 a.m., officials said. A Good Samaritan had spotted the group and alerted authorities.

Another two rafters stayed in the group's vessel.

The group spent several hours on the lighthouse while Coast Guard officials negotiated with them to come down. They finally came down from the lighthouse shortly after 5 p.m.

The Coast Guard said the group is safe and in good health. They received medical attention and food, but they will not be released to family members yet. They are in federal custody.

Officials said they have not determined whether the lighthouse is on U.S. territory. They said it's too soon to determine whether this applies to the "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy, which allows Cuban migrants who reach dry American land to stay in the country. A decision is expected over the next several days.

Ten years ago, U.S. authorities sent home 15 Cubans who landed on an abandoned Keys bridge because they said it did not constitute land. A federal judge later ruled that decision was illegal. Some of the group eventually made it to land in the Keys on another attempt.

Cuban exile activist Ramon Saul Sanchez was part of the push to make those Cubans in 2006 stay and participated in a hunger strike.

"There was a precedent sent in the bridge case that the bridge was part of the United States and I think this lighthouse is part of the United States," Sanchez said.

The 109-foot historic lighthouse, sitting in about 10 feet of water, is about 20 miles from Key West and is a popular dive site. Officials said the migrants swam from their homemade vessel to the lighthouse when they saw the Coast Guard approaching.

Agents with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and Customs and Border Protection were assisting. 

A law that could potentially make our county safer and reduce our homeless population is now implemented in San Diego County after years of serious debate. 

“It’s been a long battle, at least six or seven years,” Michael Plopper, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital said.

Plopper says before Laura’s Law, there were very few options of treatment for the severely mentally ill who didn’t want help. 

“Laws only allow us to keep a person in the hospital for 17 days, and beyond that we can keep them in the hospital if they’re gravely disabled and placed on conservatorship. There’s no conservatorship for a person who is dangerous to themselves or others, there’s no other method to treat them in the community than Laura’s Law,” Plopper said.

Laura’s Law is a state law that provides assisted out-patient treatment for the severely mentally ill who refuse help. It impacts those people with severe mental illness that have a history of refusing to accept treatment and who have recent history of psychiatric hospitalizations, incarcerations, or threats or attempts of serious violence toward themselves or others. Those patients would be compelled by court order to receive treatment if they pose a danger to themselves or others. 

The Board of Supervisors voted to implement the law last year. It was implemented in San Diego County on April 1st, 2016. 

According to Alfredo Aguirre, the County’s Behavioral Health Director, prior to the start of the program, 21 individuals were identified as potential Laura’s Law candidates. Then, between April 1st and April 30th, an additional 24 individuals had been identified as potential Laura’s Law candidates, making the total of 45 potential candidates. 

After further evaluation, only two individuals are now candidates for Laura’s Law. Aguirre says the “black robe effect” can motivate patients to comply with treatment before having to result in assisted out-patient treatment, or Laura’s Law. 

Presentations on Laura’s Law have been provided to the Public Safety Group, Division Chiefs of the Probation Department, and PERT.

Aguirre says police departments won’t need to conduct business any different than normal. If they identify a person who may be eligible, they will do an In-Home Outreach Team (IHOT) referral. 

If you or someone you know may be a candidate for Laura’s Law, please contact one of the IHOT Teams. MHS, Inc. serves the North Inland, North Central and North Coastal regions of the county, (760) 591-0100; Telecare serves the Central, Southern, and East regions of the county, (619) 961-2120.

A Mexican consulate employee says he was beat up for speaking Spanish on a city bus.

The victim’s attorney Gene Iredale explained what happened to his client Jorge.

Iredale says Jorge was talking to his mother in Mexico as he rode the bus home. That's when a man came up and attacked him, giving him black eyes and a bloody lip.

“He was grabbed and Turner hit him six times in the face full on, his eyes his mouth, and his check,” Iredale said.

Police arrested Hew Turner for the crime.

The District Attorney has charged Turner with two counts of battery with one special allegation, crime due to race color creed.

“The man appeared to be angry or enraged with him. He never had seen the man before , he had never done anything to give offense, other than speaking to his mother in Mexico and speaking in Spanish,” Iredale said.

Jorge works at the Mexican consulate. His attorney says the whole situation seemed surreal to him.

“He said it was strange. He didn't understand at first what had happened because he had done nothing to give offence,” Iredale said.

At this point, Jorge most likely will not pursue a civil case because Turner doesn't have ability to pay restitution according to Iredale.

But said it's not just about the Doctor bills.

“The harm that was caused to him was the random violence in which he was selected simply because he is who he is, not for anything he did.”

Right now Turner is in jail facing the battery charges.

A Federal judge stuck to his guns Friday, ruling the city cannot just admit that a code of silence exists within the Chicago Police Department -- he wants to hear Mayor Rahm Emanuel describe it for himself, Chicago's NBC5 reported.

The testimony was ordered for a case where two veteran police officers, Shannon Spalding and Daniel Echeverria, say they faced retaliation after attempting to expose corruption in the Ida B. Wells housing project on Chicago’s South Side.

“Officers and supervisors were involved with running the narcotics trade,” Spalding told NBC5 Investigates. “It became very clear that there was not going to be an unbiased investigation.”

After Emanuel spoke of an unwritten code in remarks before the Chicago City Council last fall, Spalding and Echeverria’s attorneys added the mayor to their potential witness list. City lawyers fought to exclude his testimony, even offering to stipulate to the existence of the so-called “code."

Her friends call it "Boomerang."

Maika Nicholson’s car has been stolen four times, but has also returned four times.

“I always come out to make sure it’s there because often times it’s not,” Nicholson said about her ’97 Honda Civic. “It’s been stolen in San Francisco three times and probably been broken into three or four times, I would say. I can’t even keep count anymore.”

This week, her car came back for the fourth time. San Francisco Police found it less than a mile from her Noe Valley Home.

“The first time, I was pretty upset. Now, it’s just kind of funny to me,” said Nicholson, who has even tracked the car down herself using an app on her smartphone. The third time it was stolen, the thieves dumped it a couple blocks away, without any damage.

According to SFPD’s Carlos Manfredi, they could be stealing the car for two reasons: to joyride in it, drive around town, "do donuts," or use it to commit crimes.

The Bay Area has one of the nation’s highest rates of car thefts, according to the FBI. This is especially true in San Francisco, where more than 1,300 cars have been stolen so far this year.

“Those are easy cars to break. All you need is a fork,” Manfredi said, explaining thieve usually target older models because they’re easy to break into.

Nicholson has a club on her steering wheel to deter thieves, however, officers have recommended she get a new car with a smart key, if she does not want it stolen a fifth time.

For Nicholson, though, it’s not easy to trade in an old friend.

“It’s funny because it just keeps coming back to me, so I have a little bit of a weird attachment to it,” Nicholson said.