Shelby Bremer is a reporter for NBC 7 San Diego. She developed her passion for journalism during her time at NBC Chicago, where she began as an intern and spent nearly nine years as a producer.
Shelby has covered a wide range of breaking news and enterprise stories, but she is particularly proud of her political and investigative reporting. She enjoys using public records requests and in-depth research to uncover stories that hold institutions accountable. Her work has earned multiple Emmy Awards, a national Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, and she was a duPont-Columbia Award finalist for her series “Left for Dead: Hit, Run, and Ignored,” which investigated the Chicago Police Department’s inaction on hit-and-run crashes.
Born and raised in the Chicago area, Shelby earned her bachelor’s degree in Communication with a Spanish minor from DePauw University. Outside of journalism, she enjoys yoga, traveling, reading, and making the most of the San Diego sunshine.
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Year before San Diego mosque shooting, father of teen gunman removed firearms from home
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California plan to share driver's license data raises privacy concerns
California is preparing to share driver’s license data in a nationwide network, a move state leaders say is meant to comply with federal REAL ID requirements but has sparked concern among privacy advocates and immigrant rights groups.
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DACA recipient detained in Arizona, accused of stealing baby food, family says
Bryant Sempoalt Chavez was brought to the U.S. from Mexico in 2002, just before his 4th birthday, with his family settling in El Cajon.
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‘I kind of feel betrayed': Green card interviews end in handcuffs for military spouses
During Chanidaphon Sopimpa’s final’s interview with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, ICE agents came in, handcuffed her and took her away.
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Deported father of San Diego Marine is victim of mistaken identity, family says
The family of a deported father of a U.S. Marine said Friday they believe his removal may have been a case of mistaken identity, alleging federal agents have confused him for his eldest son.
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ICE detains parents of U.S. Marine in San Diego; father later deported
The couple’s children told NBC 7 their parents were taken into custody by ICE while trying to visit their pregnant daughter on Camp Pendleton.
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‘Give him a chance': ICE detains San Diego man amid effort to vacate decades-old conviction
ICE agents detained a San Diego man at his annual check-in on Wednesday, acting on a decades-old deportation order, leaving his wife begging for mercy as he awaits a hearing to try and vacate a conviction his attorney said was “fundamentally flawed” from the start.
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Trump administration signals change on DACA, urging recipients to self-deport
A DACA recipient recently missed the last exit in San Diego County before entering Mexico, according to his attorney.
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DACA recipient to be deported after missing exit and mistakenly driving into Mexico, attorney says
A DACA recipient is about to be deported after missing his exit on the freeway in San Ysidro and accidentally crossing the border into Mexico, his attorney said.
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Neighbors say they long feared man charged with killing woman inside Vista home
Neighbors say they long feared a man accused of killing a woman inside a Vista home, sparking an hourslong SWAT standoff on Wednesday.
