Body Count Rises…Two Salinas teens were killed last week in a bizarre shooting near Hartnell College, where a juvenile passenger opened fire on four people riding in the same vehicle. Fourteen-year-old Ociel Montiel and 15-year-old Rodolfo Cristobal both died from gunshot wounds in the Oct. 14 incident; the two other teens are recovering from injuries. The gang-related slayings bring the city’s death toll to 24, one homicide shy of last year’s record.  [ZS]

Seaside Violence…After years of relative calm, Seaside is seeing an uptick in violence in the central hill neighborhoods east of downtown. In late June, police locked down the block after a suspect fled a non-fatal shooting on the 1600 block of Lowell Street. Mid-September saw a double-shooting on Luxton Street that left one man dead and another wounded, marking the city’s first homicide this year. And on Oct. 17, a drive-by shooting wounded a teenager on the 1400 block of Kenneth Street. Police suspect the latest incident is gang-related. [KA]

Police Report…Salinas Police Chief Louis Fetherolf released his 180-day report Oct. 19, calling on the department to shift toward intelligence-driven and community-oriented policing amid a raging gang war. Fetherolf's report includes: initial crime analysis by the Naval Postgraduate School, which shows a strong positive correlations between violent crime in Salinas and unemployment, high school drop-out rate and the number of sworn police officers; organizational changes, which create a patrol division and combine administration and special operations; and plans for a resource allocation study, which will evaluate the efficiency of personnel assignments. In the near term, Fetherolf wants to hire additional crime analysts and purchase analytical software. [ZS]

No Moore…The "Queen of Cannery Row," Kalisa Moore, died Oct. 15 after more than four decades as a Peninsula institution. Moore’s kingdom on Cannery Row welcomed John Steinbeck, Ed Ricketts and countless lesser-known bellydancers, bohemians and beatniks. She was one of the few remaining vestiges of the Row’s rougher roots. When her historic La Ida Café was sold in 2007, the queen lost her castle, and dancers and drummers, poets and musicians lost a place that was more like a home than a performance space. Long live la vie boheme. [JL]

Lights Out…Last week’s storm left tens of thousands of Monterey County residents without power Oct. 13, including the Weekly. As we reported online, the paper lost its juice on Tuesday afternoon, shutting down computers, phones and the server at the height of deadline crunch. The Weekly’s rooftop photovoltaic system wasn’t any help, as it’s connected to PG&E grid. Staff made it to press by rigging a 5,000-watt generator that powered two lamps and nine Macs until the power returned after 9:30pm. [KA]