SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Police Department announced Wednesday that a man and woman who were involved in an apparent murder-suicide last week have been named and identified as mother and son.

*The Nexstar Media Wire video above shows what happens when someone calls 911.

According to SDPD, on Monday, March 23, at around 7:40 p.m., officers and San Diego Fire-Rescue personnel responded to a 911 call on San Marcos Avenue in the Burlingame neighborhood. The report said neighbors heard gunshots and found a man with a gunshot wound to his head on the front porch of a residence.

When officers arrived, they found a 51-year-old man, who was later identified as Galen Sherwood, with a gunshot wound to the head, which police reportedly suspect was self-inflicted. Officers also found a handgun near Sherwood, SDPD says.

After life-saving measures were attempted on the man, he was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later, according to SDPD.

While officers were at the residence tending to Sherwood, they reportedly found an 83-year-old woman inside the home who had a gunshot wound to her upper torso. According to SDPD, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene and was later identified as Virginia Sherwood, the mother of the 51-year-old.

The two reportedly lived together at the residence.

SDPD’s Homicide Unit took over the investigation and will examine the gun collected at the scene and conduct comparison tests of the rounds and casings recovered.

Anyone with information regarding the incident is encouraged to call the Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.

Mark your calendar and get those nominations in because the 2026 Top Tech Awards return to San Diego this fall. 

This prestigious event, which will take place Sept. 17, recognizes and celebrates San Diego’s tech leaders and innovators for their many contributions locally, regionally and beyond. 

Held at Snapdragon Stadium, the event promises to be festive, forward-thinking and fun for all who attend. Even better: San Diego’s Snapdragon Stadium is big enough to fit all the talent and intimate enough to see the smiling faces of every winner.  

There are 13 award categories this year: education, nonprofit, government, cybersecurity, private SMB, private large business, public business, startup business, hospitality and entertainment, health care and biotech, top tech of the year, Cox innovation award and the community exemplary award.

Nominations are open through May 8. 

“We’re thrilled to host the Top Tech Awards — especially as we celebrate the event’s 19th anniversary,” said Cox Business Vice President for California Jodi Duva. “This is our chance to spotlight San Diego’s most innovative technology leaders — the people powering the organizations they serve. They protect critical data, keep teams and stakeholders connected and push what’s next as true trailblazers in tech.” 

Community members are invited to attend the annual awards ceremony presented by Cox Business. The event will feature an awards presentation, a live band, mocktails and more. It also will provide opportunities to meet and network with San Diego’s most innovative leaders in technology. 

Since 2008, Cox Business, the commercial division of Cox Communications, has lauded the incredible information technology innovators in San Diego. The event pays homage to the abundance of talent in the San Diego community, celebrating the changemakers and visionaries who take risks and implement cutting-edge technologies, all in the name of making their organizations and the communities they serve more connected and successful. 

The Top Tech Awards, held in both San Diego and Las Vegas, has honored more than 2,000 tech leaders and hosted more than 20,000 attendees. A Top Tech Award is regarded as a mark of superlative creativity, planning and execution in technology. 

To view videos of previous Top Tech awardees, click here.

About Cox Communications  

Cox Communications is committed to creating meaningful moments of human connection through technology. As the largest private broadband company in America, we own network infrastructure that reaches more than 30 states. Our fiber-powered wireline and wireless connections are available to more than 12 million homes and businesses and support advanced cloud and managed IT services nationwide. We’re the largest division of Cox Enterprises, a family-owned business founded in 1898 by Ohio Gov. James M. Cox that is dedicated to empowering others to build a better future for the next generation. 

Through Cox Business, Hospitality Network, RapidScale and Segra, Cox Communications provides a broad commercial services portfolio, including advanced cloud, managed IT and fiber-based network solutions that create connected environments, unique hospitality experiences and support operational applications for nearly 370,000 businesses. For more information, visit www.coxbusiness.com.

Use ’em or lose ’em.

That’s not exactly an emerging strategy for the new Automated Ball-Strike system, but it’s a guideline that the Padres are wrapping their heads around as they continue to get a feel for how to deploy challenges for this new strike zone.

“I’d like to see us finish the game with no challenges left,” Padres manager Craig Stammen said, “or at least challenge a little bit more.”

Entering Tuesday, the Padres were 2-for-3 challenging calls on offense and 3-for-5 challenging calls while in the field (all by catchers). While those numbers are especially conservative on offense — only one team has fewer offensive challenges — the whole idea is to save challenges for moments that can impact a game.

Such a moment arrived in the top of the ninth inning on Monday after Jake Cronenworth’s leadoff walk, but Fernando Tatis Jr. did not challenge the called strike on a 2-1 slider that appeared to land above the zone as reflected in MLB’s Gameday app.

The pitch didn’t end or extend an at-bat, but counts clearly matter to hitters. This year alone, hitters in a 3-1 count have a 1.518 OPS and hitters in a 2-2 count have a .442 OPS.

Tatis foul tipped the next pitch — a slider on the outside corner — into the catcher’s glove for a strikeout. Two batters later, Jackson Merrill homered to cut the Giants’ lead to 3-2, which ended up being the final score.

“I’m sure there were other pitches we could challenge, too,” Stammen said a day later. “But just like thinking (Tatis) specifically, one of our best hitters, arguably our best hitter, in a ninth-inning game where it doesn’t matter if you don’t get to keep the challenge for tomorrow, maybe it’s something that we can have a conversation about.”

Probably a lot of conversations.

After all, Stammen lamented that 30 games in spring training is hardly enough time for hitters to know all the ins and outs and do’s and don’ts and percentages. Ideally, the Padres want to make sure they have a challenge in the bag for Mason Miller in the ninth inning, but the most impactful moment of a game often arrives before the final inning.

The Padres have a color-coded sheet in the dugout similar to NFL coaches’ go-for-2 sheets, but it’s still a lot for a hitter to grasp in the moment of a heated at-bat, as Tatis was in the ninth inning against Giants closer Ryan Walker.

“There’s also a piece of these guys taking an at bat and not wanting some external circumstances to be thinking about, like, should I challenge this pitch or not?” Stammen said. “It’s more like, ‘I’m going to get a hit. I got to figure out a way to get on base.’ You’re battling those two like personas in their head. You want a clear mind, simple thoughts, but then we’re also asking them like, ‘No, you need to know the strike zone. No, you got a challenge too, and you got to do it immediately.’

“So there’s a give and a take with that.”

Notable

• RHP Griffin Canning (Achilles) threw three innings (about 50 pitches) in a simulated game on Monday in a workout at low Single-A Lake Elsinore. Canning had been scheduled to pitch this week in Tacoma for Triple-A El Paso, but inclement weather forced the shift to Lake Elsinore. His next appearance will be a rehab start on Saturday for Double-A San Antonio in Tulsa. “I feel like I just have to build up at this point,” Canning said. “I’m feeling pretty ready to go. … I think I’m probably further ahead than maybe what they first expected before I signed. Everything’s been going well.”