#homicide

#homicide

Around 1:30 a.m. on a Saturday last month, two masked men approached a black Cadillac Escalade idling outside a Northridge apartment building. One held a shotgun, the other a handgun. A surveillance system captured the sounds of what happened next: A gang challenge, confusion, a demand for property. Then six shots and sounds of the Escalade speeding off. In the passenger seat was Maria De La Rosa, 22, with a gunshot wound to the chest.

The two people killed in a roadside shooting near California's Hallelujah Junction were a 17-year-old Reno boy and his father, the Washoe County medical examiner's officer said. Spencer Browne, 17, and his father, Richard Browne, 43, were fatally shot around 8:50 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, on the shoulder of Highway 395 in Lassen County. A 39-year-old Reno man is in custody as the suspected shooter.

Grammy-nominated gospel singer Jubilant Sykes was stabbed to death in his Santa Monica home late Sunday, and his son was taken into custody at the scene, police said. The 71-year-old victim, a prominent singer as well as an actor, was pronounced dead shortly after police arrived at the residence, according to Santa Monica Police Lt. Lewis Gilmore. There, they also discovered his son, 31-year-old Micah Sykes, still inside the Delaware Avenue home. He was booked on suspicion of homicide.

The three people found dead in a Springfield home last month after a double murder-suicide have been identified, prosecutors announced Monday. Springfield police responded to the 1400 block of State Street the morning of Nov. 25 to a report of a stabbing, spokesperson Ryan Walsh said previously. Two men and a woman were found dead inside. Khamkieo Chingvacha, 67, and Sachivanh Promphanh, 47, were identified as the two victims, Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni said Monday.

The story of a Thursday afternoon stabbing of a social worker at SF General Hospital took a much darker turn early Saturday night when we learned that the social worker died from his stabbing injuries. We now know the stabbing victim was 51-year-old hospital social worker Alberto Rangel, and the suspect in the stabbing, 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi of San Francisco, has been taken into custody on murder and other charges.

Police responded just after midnight Sunday to a report of a suspicious vehicle on the 1300 block of Seaport Boulevard reported by a security guard, according to a press release from the Redwood City Police Department. When officers arrived, they found a man in the driver's seat and a woman in the passenger seat of the vehicle, each with a gunshot wound to the head and unconscious, authorities said.

The woman shared the information, not with police but instead with one of Creech's loved ones, who turned it over to investigators. Padilla-Maciel was a suspect but stayed out of jail until 2023, after police spoke to eyewitnesses and matched a spent shell casing in Padilla-Maciel's bedroom to the homicide scene. That year, Padilla-Maciel was arrested at the southern border, while returning to the United States from Mexico, according to police.

We are grateful for the help we have already received from the local community and while we are not looking for anyone else in relation to this matter, I would encourage those who have not yet spoken to police to come forward as soon as possible.

Officers initially responded to a hospital on Nov. 7 where the toddler was unresponsive with signs of severe trauma, police said. She was put on life support and died three days later. Her identity is being withheld. Over the course of a two-week investigation, homicide detectives determined that the toddler had been a victim of ongoing abuse and that her death was a direct result of abuse from her father and stepmother, police said.

A 13-year-old girl was taken into custody over the weekend after fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy in Pomona, police said. On Sunday around 5:22 p.m., officers from the Pomona Police Department responded to a report of a shooting in the 1300 block of East Pasadena Avenue, where they found a 16-year-old boy suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. The Los Angeles County Fire Department arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene.

Prosecutors said the September 2022 shooting began with an argument between Walker - identified as a member of the FNO Woo street gang - another masked individual, and Smith, whom Walker believed was affiliated with a rival gang. Smith had been sitting on a bench in McLaughlin Park near Tillary Street and Jay Street around 1:40 p.m. The 15-year-old, a student at nearby Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School, was approached by Walker, and the two exchanged brief words before Walker shot Smith once in the stomach, prosecutors said. The teen was rushed to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, officials said.

The Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) said officers responded to a 911 call in the 300 block of Edward Street North shortly after 4 p.m. on Oct. 14. Police found the body of a man who was later identified as an 18-year-old from Milton. The suspect and witnesses had left the scene more than 24 hours before police were called, the TBPS said in a news release issued Saturday afternoon.

A 22-year-old woman was killed in a shooting in Northridge overnight, police said. The Los Angeles Police Department received a call at around 1:40 a.m. Saturday to Bryant Street and Tampa Avenue near the Northridge Fashion Center. Two men had approached a parked car and shot multiple rounds at the three people who were sitting inside, said LAPD Det. Meghan Aguilar. Aguilar said she did not have information available on whether the two others in the car were injured.

A man was fatally stabbed Wednesday at a Brooklyn public housing building that houses a community center, according to NYPD officials. Officers found 48-year-old Kevin Coleman with multiple stab wounds at NYCHA's Langston Hughes Apartments in Brownsville around 5:30 p.m., officials said. The residential building contains a gathering space for seniors and other neighbors, according to the housing authority. First responders took Coleman to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition and he was later pronounced dead.