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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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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‘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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Critics concerned Border Patrol agents may stop wearing body cameras
Critics concerned Border Patrol agents may stop wearing body cameras.
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San Diego County's ICE policy draws national attention
The battle over immigration enforcement in San Diego County has drawn national attention, as President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration – and his promise of mass deportations – draw closer.
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Application opens for program protecting undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation
The application period opened Monday for a new federal immigration program that allows undocumented spouses to remain in the U.S. as they apply for legal status.
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Left for Dead: NBC 5 sues Chicago police, OEMC for records on unsolved fatal hit-and-run
NBC 5 has filed two lawsuits to obtain records on an unsolved hit-and-run crash after the victim’s daughter says Chicago police have not updated her on the investigation in the 11 months since her father was killed.
