Security Guard Charged with Murder in Walgreens Shooting
A security guard at a Hollywood pharmacy has been charged with murder in the killing of a suspected shoplifter, the District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Donald Vincent Ciota, 28, of Covina, is...
View ArticleSecurity Guard Charged with Murder in Walgreens Shooting
A security guard at a Hollywood pharmacy has been charged with murder in the killing of a suspected shoplifter, the District Attorney’s Office announced Monday. Donald Vincent Ciota, 28, of Covina, is...
View ArticleCa. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Case of Man Convicted of South L.A. Murder
The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review the case of a transient who is serving a 26-year-to-life prison term for fatally stabbing a South Los Angeles woman who had allowed him to stay...
View ArticleMan Pleads Not Guilty to Murder, Hit and Run, for Fatally Striking Bicyclist
A suspected drunken driver who allegedly struck and killed a bicyclist in Beaumont, then fled the scene, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder, DUI gross vehicular manslaughter and...
View ArticleMan Found Guilty of Second-Degree Murder in PS Senior Citizen’s Slaying
A man who killed a 74-year-old Palm Springs resident by driving a hatchet into his head eight times was convicted Monday of second-degree murder. Prosecutors had sought a first-degree murder conviction...
View ArticleProceedings Set to Begin for CatCity Bar Shooting Attempted Murder Trial
Trial proceedings were slated to begin Friday for the attempted murder trial of a man accused of shooting two men in the parking lot of a Cathedral City bar. Santos Franco, 21, of Palm Springs, is...
View ArticleMan’s Murder Conviction Upheld For Deadly DUI Crash In Claremont
A state appeals court panel Thursday upheld an Alhambra man’s murder conviction for a drunken crash on the Foothill (210) Freeway in Claremont that killed a Las Vegas man and left another man injured....
View ArticleActor Michael Jace’s Conviction Upheld for Wife’s Murder
A state appeals court panel Friday upheld actor Michael Jace’s murder conviction for fatally shooting his wife in front of their two young children in their Hyde Park home in May 2014, but ordered his...
View ArticleDA Argues to Include Evidence From Prior Murder Case Vs. Durst
Los Angeles County prosecutors, in a newly filed motion, are pushing for jurors in New York real estate scion Robert Durst’s murder trial to hear about the 2001 killing and dismemberment of a Texas...
View ArticleDA Argues to Include Evidence From Prior Murder Case Vs. Durst
Los Angeles County prosecutors, in a newly filed motion, are pushing for jurors in New York real estate scion Robert Durst’s murder trial to hear about the 2001 killing and dismemberment of a Texas...
View ArticleJury Selection Begins in CatCity Bar Shooting Attempted Murder Trial
Jury selection began Monday for the attempted murder trial of a man accused of shooting two men in the parking lot of a Cathedral City sports bar. Santos Franco, 21, of Palm Springs, is accused of...
View ArticleDA Argues to Include Evidence From Prior Murder Case Against Durst
Robert Durst. Photo by Courtesy of HBO Los Angeles County prosecutors will ask a judge Tuesday to allow them to present evidence in the murder trial of New York real estate scion Robert Durst about the...
View ArticleJudge Agrees to Allow Evidence From Prior Murder Case vs. Durst in L.A. Trial
Los Angeles County prosecutors will be allowed to present evidence in the murder trial of New York real estate scion Robert Durst about the 2001 killing and dismemberment of a Texas neighbor for which...
View ArticleJury Selection Begins in Murder Trial for Four Men in Indio Drive-By Shooting
Jury selection began Tuesday for the murder trial of four suspected gang members charged in an Indio drive-by shooting that resulted in a man’s death. Indio residents Cesar Monzon Jr., 29, Angel Lopez,...
View ArticleJudge Agrees to Allow Evidence From Prior Murder Case vs. Durst in L.A. Trial
A judge ruled Tuesday that Los Angeles County prosecutors will be allowed to present evidence in the upcoming murder trial of New York real estate scion Robert Durst about the 2001 killing and...
View ArticleMan Charged With Murder Of Girlfriend’s 2-Year-Old Son
An Inglewood man was charged Thursday with murder in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son last summer. Josafat Bonifacio, 27, was scheduled to be arraigned later Thursday at the...
View ArticleMan Charged With Murder Of Girlfriend’s 2-Year-Old Son
An Inglewood man was charged Thursday with murder in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son last summer. Josafat Bonifacio, 27, was scheduled to be arraigned later Thursday at the...
View ArticleStabbed Woman’s Skeleton, Hands Cut Off: She’s Named 31 Years Later
Photo via Pixabay The murder mystery of a stabbed woman whose hands were cut off was a step closer to being solved Thursday as the victim was identified 31 years after her skeleton was unearthed. The...
View ArticleMan Charged With Murder Of Girlfriend’s 2-Year-Old Son
An Inglewood man was charged Thursday with murder and assault in connection with the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son last summer. Josafat Bonifacio, 27, was ordered to remain jailed while...
View ArticleMan Shot By Deputy Charged With Attempted Murder, Assault
Charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer were filed Tuesday against a man who was shot by a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy in La Quinta last week. Christopher...
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