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October 17, 2005 
VOL.
43, NO. 18Oakland,
CA
$20,000 reward offered to find killers
of young Berkeley parishioner
The family
of Remo Reggi, a popular young parishioner at St. Ambrose Parish in Berkeley,
is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and
conviction of the men who killed him on Sept. 11.
An apparent gang of carjackers shot Reggi, 20, to death as he sat in his
car in El Cerrito. They are still at large.
The young man was beloved by all those who knew him, according to a West
County Times article on his funeral. During the funeral liturgy, a good
friend, Melvin Blair, told Reggi’s mother, “You gave birth
to an angel.”
Father George Alengadan, pastor, said, “Remo had a spirituality
that was unusual at any age. Rain or shine, he was there for the 4:30
p.m. Saturday Mass.” Afterwards, he would light a candle and pray
at the foot of the statue of the Virgin May, and then go into a side chapel
to meditate.”
George Sandoval, his former employer at Walker’s Pie Shop in Albany,
recalls the time Reggi saw a bus pulling away without picking up a man
in a wheelchair. “He jumped out from behind the counter, ran outside,
and chased the bus for a block and a half before finally hailing it down.”
More than 600 people attended Reggi’s funeral.
Anyone with information about the killers should call the El Cerrito Police
Department at (510) 215-4400.
