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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
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Daily Local & Regional NewsWatch
Daily News Digest
from LA Police Protective League
March 28, 2016 |
Mother, Teen Daughter Shot at Bus Stop
A mother and daughter were hospitalized after a shooting late Sunday at a bus stop. The shooting occurred in the Pico-Union area just before midnight. The mother suffered a gunshot wound to the stomach and was in critical, but stable condition Monday morning. Her teenage daughter was in stable condition. No arrests were reported. Shots were fired from a vehicle that passed the bus stop, witnesses told police. The girl and a friend had earlier called the mother to report at least two men in the same vehicle who were harassing them.
NBC 4
Taco stand employee fatally shoots robbery suspect in South LA, police say
One of three would-be robbers was shot and killed by an employee at a taco stand that the three men were trying to rob in South Los Angeles, a Los Angeles police lieutenant said Saturday. The dead man was 19 years old, according to a watch sergeant at the LAPD's Southeast station. The shooting took place at the intersection of San Pedro Street and West Century Boulevard at about 11:30 p.m. Friday, LAPD Lt. Clint Dohmen said.
FOX 11
Husband Killed, Wife Stabbed After Chasing Alleged Thief at 7-Eleven Store
Longtime customers of a 7-Eleven were devastated after hearing a couple who worked at the store for more than 15 years was stabbed Friday morning while confronting a shoplifter. The husband, who was the manager, died from his wounds and his wife, who worked as a clerk, was in critical condition, police said. The incident happened before 9 a.m., when a transient tried to steal a sandwich and a beer from the store on Chandler Boulevard and Laurel Canyon, police said. He was chased out of the store by the manager. The man was later identified by police as Hassan Antonio Blunt, a 42-year-old man who is known as a local homeless man.
NBC 4
Drive-by gang-killing victim in South LA named
The coroner's office Sunday released the name of a man who died in a hospital after he was shot in the chest while another man was wounded in South Los Angeles. He was Fernando Rojo Jr., 26, according to the office. No middle name or hometown was released. Rojo and another man, also in his 20s, were shot as they stood outside their home at 12:30 a.m. March 19 in South Los Angeles during an apparent gang- related, drive-by shooting, according to Los Angeles police.
MyNewsLA.com
LAPD searching for South LA shooting suspect
Police were searching Saturday for whoever shot and wounded a man in South Los Angeles. The victim, believed to be about 40 years old, was shot at 2:15 p.m. Friday in the 5500 block of South Vermont Avenue. The male suspect fled in a white Nissan Maxima sedan, according to Los Angeles police Officer Anthony Im. The wounded man was taken to a hospital, where he was undergoing treatment, but his condition was not immediately available, police said. Investigators did not have many leads and it wasn't immediately clear whether the shooting was gang-related, but it occurred in an area where gang activity is prevalent, police said.
Los Angeles Daily News
Police, Family Seek Answers Year After Man Killed in South LA
A family is still seeking justice and answers a year after a 19-year-old man was shot and killed after attending a party in South Los Angeles. Justin Logie and his friends were leaving a biker club after attending a party called on March 20, 2015 when an unknown suspect opened fire in the parking lot of a nearby burger joint, officials said. "It's a mother's worst nightmare when you know your kid's out there on the mean streets of LA," said Lakiesha Marshall, Justin's mother. "And then you get that call." Marshall and Justin's grandmother, Janisa Spears, rushed out to the scene at Florence Avenue and Main Street after they received a call around 2 a.m. that night.
NBC 4
Six-hour Van Nuys standoff ends in one arrest
A man, believed to have been armed, came out of a Van Nuys apartment peacefully after a police SWAT team lobbed tear gas inside to end a more than six-hour barricade, authorities said. The standoff began about 3:15 p.m. Saturday near Woodman Avenue and Runnymede Street, Officer Mike Lopez of the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section said. It's unclear what prompted the man to barricade himself. The standoff ended at 10 p.m. after SWAT officers fired tear gas into the home and the man came out, said Sgt. Steve Gottschalk of the Los Angeles Police Department's Van Nuys Station.
MyNewsLA.com
Skull Found In Griffith Park Near Hollywood Sign Identified As Female
A human skull found in Griffith Park near the Hollywood sign has been identified as a female, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office. The skull was discovered by two hikers on March 19 off the Brush Canyon trail at about 2 p.m., authorities said. The hikers made the grim discovery after they went off the main trail. Detectives had to use a rope to rappel down about 100 yards to examine the skull and search for any other evidence.
ABC 7
Man On Horseback Helps Woman Get Her Purse Back After Thief Runs Off
A woman shopping in Northridge was surprised when a man ran past her and swiped her handbag. But she was in for more of a surprise when a man on horseback, no less, saw what happened and chased after the thief. A man on a steed doing a great deed. Like something out of a Hollywood movie. The incident took place Friday evening at the busy Fashion Center Mall. KCAL9's Jennifer Kastner reported from the scene where the hero on horseback came to a shopper's aid. Even 24 hours later, customers had trouble believing the Hollywood-ized story.
KCAL 9
Family Targeted in Kidnapping Scam
A local mother was the victim of a kidnapping scam when a caller told the woman that he had taken her daughter and demanded ransom. "There was a girl screaming on the other end, very specifically saying 'mommy, mommy they grabbed me. I'm in a van,'" the woman, only identified as Maria, told NBC4. Maria, a Los Angeles resident, said the girl sounded just like her daughter. Two men then got on the line and threatened to kill her child if she didn't go to the ATM and wire them cash. "I just thought this cannot be happening," she said. Maria said she drove to multiple ATM machines while the men were on speaker phone threatening her daughter's life.
NBC 4
The 8 most dangerous Valley intersections and what LAPD is doing about them
Los Angeles police Officer George Goodyear fired up his motorcycle, flipped down his helmet visor, then gunned toward a traffic offender at Balboa Avenue and Devonshire Street. Seconds later, Valley Traffic Division Officer Kerry Suprenant gave chase toward another law-breaking driver in one of the most dangerous intersections in the San Fernando Valley, according to police records. Thus began Saturday the work of a police and transportation department task force that aims not only to reduce crashes in the worst eight Valley Bureau intersections and beyond but eliminate all traffic deaths across the city by 2025.
Los Angeles Daily News
Bizarre Ending To Police Chase Of Armed Robbery Suspect Around Valley, West Hills
Police chased an armed robbery suspect around the Southland — and the ending was one of the strangest seen in a very long time. The chase started in Sherman Oaks, authorities said. The suspect was driving a black Tacoma Toyota pickup erratically. Desmond Shaw in Sky9 said the suspect was hitting triple-digit speeds. The chase ended in West Hills with the female suspect lunging for a police cruiser in a brazen attempt to elude authorities after getting out of a vehicle she allegedly stole.
CBS 2
Bail Denied For Flight Attendant Accused Of Cocaine Smuggling
The Jet Blue flight attendant who was accused of trying to smuggle almost 70 pounds of cocaine onto a plane in Los Angeles was denied bail on Friday and ordered returned to California. Marsha Gay Reynolds had been granted bail just 24 hours earlier by a judge in New York. But then a California judge stepped in, ordering her to be held in custody and returned to the West Coast. Authorities say the 31-year-old former Jamaican beauty queen was off-duty on March 18, but flashed her employee badge at a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport.
ABC 7
Immigrant smuggler caught 23 times by Border Patrol gets prison time
A career smuggler nabbed while guiding four immigrants through the Otay Mountains last year was sentenced Friday to five years in prison. U.S. Border Patrol agents had caught Efrain Delgado Rosales with undocumented immigrants 23 times in less than 17 years, according to the U.S. attorney's office. His latest encounter came in November, when agents spotted the 35-year-old guiding the foursome through rugged East County terrain. The four men told authorities that Delgado had picked them up at a stash house in Mexico, led them to the border then left them for several hours. As they waited, thieves turned up and robbed them of all of their cash — thousands of dollars.
Los Angeles Times
Deal reached to raise Calif. minimum wage to $15 an hour
California legislators and labor unions have reached a tentative agreement that will take the state's minimum wage from $10 to $15 an hour, a state senator said, a move that would make for the largest statewide minimum in the nation by far. "This is not a done deal," Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "Everyone's been operating in good faith and we hope to get it through the Legislature." Leno said if an agreement is finalized, it would go before the Legislature as part of his minimum-wage bill that stalled last year.
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