CA Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case of Man Convicted of Estranged Wife’s Murder
The California Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a man convicted of murdering his estranged wife, whose badly burned body was discovered at a homeless encampment in Granada Hills. The...
View ArticleArmed Murder Suspect Captured After Nine-Hour Standoff In Compton
A 24-year-old armed murder suspect was taken into custody Thursday after a nine-hour standoff with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s deputies in Compton. The suspect was arrested at around 2:30...
View ArticleCA Supreme Court Refuses Retrial for Convicted Wife Murderer
The California Supreme Court has refused to hear the case of a man convicted of murdering his estranged wife, whose badly burned body was discovered at a homeless encampment in Granada Hills. The...
View Article9 Hour Standoff in Compton; Murder Suspect Arrested
A 24-year-old armed murder suspect was taken into custody Thursday after a nine-hour standoff with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s deputies in Compton. The suspect was arrested at around 2:30...
View ArticleFormer Lomita Restaurateur Denied Parole in Wife’s Murder
A former Lomita restaurateur who told sheriff’s detectives that he bound his wife with duct tape, panicked when he awoke to find her dead and “cooked” her body for four days to get rid of her remains...
View ArticleArmed Murder Suspect Captured After Nine-Hour Standoff In Compton
A 24-year-old armed murder suspect was taken into custody early Thursday after a nine-hour standoff with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s deputies in Compton. Tyrone Dunn, Jr. was arrested at...
View ArticleMan Accused of Killing Man, Hijacking Metro Bus Charged with Murder
A man accused of fatally shooting a passenger aboard a Metro bus then hijacking the vehicle and sparking a chase from South Los Angeles to downtown was charged Monday with murder and other counts....
View ArticleMan Accused of Killing Man, Hijacking Metro Bus Charged with Murder
A man accused of fatally shooting a passenger aboard a Metro bus then hijacking the vehicle and sparking a chase from South Los Angeles to downtown was charged Monday with murder and other counts....
View ArticleTrial Begins for Woman Accused of Setting Up Murder of Boyfriend in Stanton
A 41-year-old woman conspired to kill her on-again, off-again boyfriend in her Stanton motel room because of his heroin addiction and infidelity, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. Amy Lynn Black is...
View ArticleFormer Detective Parole Rescinded
A state parole board hearing panel Wednesday rescinded an earlier recommendation of parole for a former Los Angeles Police Department detective who was convicted in 2012 of shooting and killing her...
View ArticleTrial Begins for Woman Accused of Setting Up Murder of Boyfriend in Stanton
A 41-year-old woman conspired to kill her on-again, off-again boyfriend in her Stanton motel room because of his heroin addiction and infidelity, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday. Amy Lynn Black is...
View ArticleConvicted Former Detective Denied Parole
A state parole board hearing panel Wednesday rescinded an earlier recommendation of parole for a former Los Angeles Police Department detective who was convicted in 2012 of shooting and killing her...
View Article‘89 Kidnap, Murder Suspect Re-Convicted
A man whose conviction and death sentence were overturned for the kidnapping, rape, robbery and murder of a woman who had been shopping at a Pasadena mall nearly 36 years ago was found guilty again...
View ArticleFentanyl Murder Suspect Found Dead in Cell
An autopsy was pending Monday on a 40-year-old inmate who died at the Byrd Detention Center under circumstances that officials said did not appear suspicious. Johnnie Curtis Stevens of Norco was...
View ArticleMan Re-Convicted for Kidnap, Rape, Murder
A man whose conviction and death sentence were overturned for the kidnapping, rape, robbery and murder of a woman who had been shopping at a Pasadena mall nearly 36 years ago was found guilty again...
View ArticleCharges Dismissed in Santa Ana Murder Case
Changes in state law led to a 51-year-old man’s “exoneration” in the 1994 shooting of a 19-year-old victim in Santa Ana who died 15 years later, the defendant’s attorney said Monday. Giovanny Edgar...
View ArticleMan Pleads No Contest to Attempted Murder of 7-Year-Old Brother
A man who was charged with stabbing his 7-year-old brother at the family’s home in Whittier has pleaded no contest to attempted murder. Cristian Gutierrez, now 25, was immediately sentenced to 12 years...
View ArticleMan Pleads No Contest for Stabbing 7-Year-Old Brother
A man who was charged with stabbing his 7-year-old brother at the family’s home in Whittier has pleaded no contest to attempted murder. Cristian Gutierrez, now 25, was immediately sentenced to 12 years...
View ArticleJury Acquits Man of Murder in Death of Restaurant Patron
A man accused of fatally shooting a 31-year-old acquaintance during an altercation at a Cathedral City restaurant was acquitted Monday of second-degree murder. A Riverside jury deliberated two days...
View ArticleAlleged Metro Train Stabber Pleads Not Guilty
A 46-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a woman on a Metro train in the Studio City area pleaded not guilty Thursday to murder and robbery charges. Elliott Tramel Nowden is scheduled to return to...
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