Authorities are investigating a shooting at a Watts home Sunday morning that was followed by an officer-involved shooting and left one person dead and “several individuals” taken to local hospitals, a police officer said. Officers were dispatched at 5:40 a.m. to 95th Street and Defiance Avenue on a report that a person was shot, said […]
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A former Los Angeles police officer pleaded no contest Wednesday to a pair of sex-related charges involving a then-15-year-old girl from the department’s cadet program and was sentenced to two years in prison. Robert Cain, 32, whose arrest roiled the department and put a black mark on the cadet program that has long been hailed […]
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The bullet that killed a Trader Joe’s store manager in an exchange of gunfire following a pursuit crash Saturday was fired by a Los Angeles Police Department officer, police said Tuesday morning. LAPD Chief Michel Moore made what he called a “heart-breaking” announcement during a news conference about the investigation into the deadly standoff at […]
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The hostage standoff at an L.A. area Trader Joe’s that took the life of the store’s manager, 27-year-old Melyda, “Mely” Corado and left a grandmother clinging to life is a sad reminder of just how quickly domestic violence can turn deadly. “Domestic violence is no doubt one of the major issues we have as far as officer […]
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Police have raided the home of former USC gynecologist George Tyndall, officials said. The raid took place at his home Thursday morning, said LAPD Detective Meghan Aguilar. He lives about three miles north of the campus. Details about the raid were not immediately available. Aguilar said the warrants were investigative in nature, but didn’t elaborate. […]
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Uber and a former driver for the ride-hailing company are being sued by a passenger who alleges the driver took her unconscious to a North Hollywood motel in 2017 and raped her. The plaintiff is identified only as Jane Doe in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit filed against Uber Technologies Inc. and Alaric Spence, […]
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The parents of a 14-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a Los Angeles Police Department officer held a news conference Tuesday where they released body cam footage of the deadly encounter. Jesse Romero’s parents joined attorneys and activists at the news conference, where partial body cam footage from Romero’s fatal 2016 shooting by […]
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A 3-year-old boy was struck and killed by a sport utility vehicle in what police are investigating as a DUI crash. “I heard the crash, and I came out, and the baby was underneath the car and the car kept backing out,” Joyce Taylor, a witness said. “You only see stuff like this on TV in […]
