Graffiti murder: Gangsters killed complaining Arleta neighbor
Example of graffiti, but not graffiti in neighbor’s murder. Photo via Pixabay Three gang members were convicted Wednesday of murdering a neighbor of one of the defendants for complaining days earlier...
View ArticleMurdered sheriff’s sergeant ‘executed’ with four rounds after wounding
Sgt. Steve Owen. Photo courtesy LASD The parolee accused of killing a sheriff’s sergeant in Lancaster first wounded the lawman and then executed him with four additional shots once he was down, Los...
View ArticleLong Beach convict pleads not guilty to killing neighbor
Photo via Pixabay A man with two prior convictions for manslaughter pleaded not guilty Friday to murder and other counts for allegedly killing one neighbor and wounding another neighbor in Long Beach...
View ArticleMurdered cops mourned in Palm Springs: Ex-con suspect faces justice
Officers Jose Gilbert Vega and Lesley Zerebny. Courtesy Palm Springs Police Department Palm Springs was in mourning Monday following the weekend slaying of two police officers — a 63-year-old veteran...
View Article‘Horrific,’‘Physically Ill,’‘Crime Epidemic’: Official outrage over Palm...
File photo. Riverside County lawmakers Monday were outraged and anguished over the deaths of two Palm Springs police officers gunned down responding to a family disturbance call, speculating as to the...
View ArticleTortured kid’s body in duffel bag: Justice for accused killers
The San Ysidro border crossing near San Diego, where the accused were apprehended. Photo by Matt Wade via Wikimedia Commons Arraignment was delayed again Tuesday for a Whittier couple accused of the...
View ArticleMom murdered by son? 70-year-old pushed out window, beat to death on ground
Fernando Vargas via Facebook page. A man who allegedly shoved his 70-year-old mother out of a second-story window during an argument at their Van Nuys apartment, then continued to attack her on the...
View ArticlePregnant girlfriend murdered, buried by boyfriend: `You’re not getting out...
via LA Sheriffs department A state appeals court panel Wednesday upheld a man’s conviction for murdering his pregnant girlfriend, whose body was discovered buried in his Compton backyard. The...
View ArticleRape-murder cold case: Should killer get death?
Darrell Mark Gurule. Jurors deadlocked Thursday in the penalty phase of trial of a man who killed a young woman during a rape in Glendale 37 years ago. The jury that convicted Darrel Mark Gurule of...
View ArticleBurger joint tragedy: Owner killed by stray gunfire in possible gang murder
An 18-year-old man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of shooting dead the longtime owner of a burger restaurant in a Harbor City strip mall during an attack on a customer, who was also killed. The...
View ArticleMexican Mafia gangster targeted black victims: 15 years in fed prison
Organization’s name tattooed on member’s abdomen via Wikimedia Commons. A Mexican Mafia member who also headed a San Gabriel Valley gang that targeted black victims was sentenced Thursday to 15 years...
View ArticleBloody murder of USC Chinese student ‘for fun, for kicks’ by teen woman:...
via LinkedIn A “savage” teen woman was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in the 2014 robbery killing “for fun, for kicks” of a USC graduate student from China who was attacked near the campus...
View ArticleMourning Palm Springs cops: Jerry Brown, officials at memorial
Officers Jose Gilbert Vega and Lesley Zerebny. Courtesy Palm Springs Police Department The city of Palm Springs will honor slain police officers Jose Gilbert Vega and Lesley Zerebny Tuesday at a public...
View ArticleHit-and-run killer late to court: `That’s two extra years prison!’
Courtesy of LAPD A Bellflower man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years and four months in state prison for a hit-and-run crash that killed a woman near Long Beach City College. Mario Ivan Palafox, 24, was...
View ArticleHomeless killer guilty in stomping, beating death of fellow transient
An example of a homeless man, not the man from the story. via Wikimedia Commons A homeless man was convicted Wednesday of a fellow transient’s beating and stomping death outside a fast-food restaurant...
View ArticleHunt for killer in downtown LA stabbing: Do you know ‘witness’ in video?
This man is wanted for questioning in the fatal stabbing. Police Wednesday released surveillance video of a man wanted for questioning in a deadly stabbing near downtown Los Angeles. The crime occurred...
View ArticleKiller teacher’s never getting out: Appeal rejected in wife’s slasher murder
Photo via Pixabay The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review the case against a former Los Angeles Unified School District elementary school teacher convicted of the slashing murder of...
View ArticleDid ‘drug-crazed’ dad stab his baby girl to death?
Photo by John Schreiber. A toddler was pronounced dead Friday after being stabbed, allegedly by her drug-crazed father suspected of also setting their North Hollywood apartment on fire, jumping from a...
View ArticleGangsters killed ‘slow’ teen wearing red shoes: Guilty of first-degree murder
via Wikimedia Commons Two gang members were convicted of first-degree murder Monday for the killing of a 19-year-old mentally disabled man who prosecutors said was gunned down near a South Los Angeles...
View ArticleCountry club murder: Workers deadly dispute
A man accused in the stabbing death of a co-worker at the Wilshire Country Club was charged Tuesday with murder. Erick Hernandez, 29, of Los Angeles, is accused of stabbing Emmanuel Bravo about 8:45...
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