Dad of tortured, murdered 8-year-old recalls horror: Death for killer?
Gabriel Fernandez was tortured and murdered by his mother’s boyfriend in Palmdale. The former security guard has been convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of Fernandez. The biological father...
View Article‘Wiseguy’s’ insane daughter killed Reseda mom with baseball bat? No contest
Ray Sharkey during an appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Photo: NBC The late actor Ray Sharkey‘s daughter pleaded no contest Tuesday to the bludgeoning death of her boyfriend’s mother in Reseda...
View ArticleMother haunted by son’s grisly death, burning body; killer sentenced in...
Lady Justice A 22-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to 28 years to life in prison for the murder of a Long Beach man whose body was found inside an SUV that had been set on fire in Rancho Palos...
View ArticleWalmart horror: Deadly stabbing in Temecula store parking lot
A Walmart store’s sign. Photo by MikeMozartJeepersMedia (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia CommonsA man was fatally stabbed in the parking lot of a...
View ArticleSon beats mom until she’s brain dead, charged with murder in Thanksgiving terror
Gilberto Urrutia Perez. Photo: Corona Police Department A man accused of beating his 64-year-old mother into a coma on Thanksgiving, inflicting injuries that left her brain dead, was charged Wednesday...
View ArticleThree more suspects arrested in fatal Long Beach liquor store shooting
Police investigate a double homicide at a Long Beach liquor store. Photo from OnSceneTV Three additional suspects were arrested in connection with a shooting at a Long Beach liquor store that left two...
View ArticleGrim discovery: Man found dying in Santa Ana alley
The 26-year-old man was rushed to a nearby hospital but died a short time later. Photo: OnSceneTV Officers found a man dying from a gunshot wound in an alley in Santa Ana Sunday. Police were dispatched...
View ArticleWoman shot dead in high desert’s Littlerock
A woman driving on a desert road off Highway 138 in the Antelope Valley was shot and killed just before midnight Sunday. The fatal shooting was in the 35000 block of 96th Street East, and it was...
View ArticleCop killer spilled blood in Riverside County, vicious murderer eligible for...
Ernesto Salgado Martinez. Photo: Arizona Department of Corrections A cop killer who gunned down a Blythe store clerk during a 24-hour two-state crime spree was convicted Monday of first-degree murder...
View ArticleDead of night gang ‘crime spree’ kills one victim, injures another in Santa Ana
Gang graffiti. Courtesy FBI Two shootings — one deadly — early Wednesday in Santa Ana appear to be the work of the same gang, a police spokesman said. The first shots were fired during a failed...
View ArticleKid killed mom as ‘voices commanded’ attack? Judge orders mental exam
Brian Patrick Conroy is charged with killing his mother, 36-year-old Amber Lane, in Palm Springs. Photo from the Palm Springs Police Department. A 19-year-old man who allegedly claimed voices commanded...
View ArticleConvicted felon had an assault rifle, drugs, more guns at home? Charges filed
Phillipe Pavia is suspected of various firearm and ammunition possession charges. Photo from the Palm Springs Police Department. An additional felony gun charge was filed Thursday against an Indio man...
View ArticleWife sentenced to death for husband’s life insurance jackpot murder
A police cruiser. Photo by John Schreiber. A death sentence was handed down Friday for a Moreno Valley woman who fatally shot her 56-year-old husband to collect more than $1 million in life insurance...
View ArticleNo revenge, only justice: Prosecutor demands death for boy’s torture killer
A prosecutor told jurors Monday that the death penalty was the “only appropriate and just punishment” for a Palmdale man convicted of the torture-murder of his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son, while a...
View ArticleJurors worry they can’t reach death penalty verdict for torture killer of boy, 8
Gabriel Fernandez was tortured and murdered by his mother’s boyfriend in Palmdale. The former security guard has been convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of Fernandez. Are jurors in the...
View ArticleMom murdered four-month-old son? Westminster woman arrested
An example of a baby’s feet, not those of the child in the story. Photo via Pixabay. A 29-year-old Westminster woman was behind bars Wednesday on suspicion of killing her 4-month-old son. Thi Nhat Ha...
View ArticleDeath! Jury recommends execution for Palmdale boy’s torture-murderer
Gabriel Fernandez was tortured and murdered by his mother’s boyfriend in Palmdale. The former security guard has been convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of Fernandez. A jury recommended...
View ArticleMom, daughter murder ‘calm, quiet’ stepdad for life insurance loot
Photo via Pixabay. A Moreno Valley woman who was a teenager when she conspired with her mother to murder her stepfather to collect his life insurance proceeds was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years and...
View ArticleBeverly Hills anesthesiologist suspected of killing patient, taking drugs...
Medical instruments typically used during surgery. Photo from Pixabay. An anesthesiologist pleaded not guilty Thursday to a murder charge stemming from the death of a 71-year-old plastic surgery...
View ArticleMurder charge for Westminster mother suspected of killing her infant son
Crime scene tape. Photo from Pixabay. A 29-year-old woman accused of killing her 4-month- old son in Westminster was charged Friday with murder and child assault causing death. Thi Nhat Ha Nguyen faces...
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