2 Charged In Murder Of Boy, 5, In South LA
Two reputed gang members have been charged with murder for a Los Angeles Halloween shooting that killed a 5-year-old boy as he showed off his costume in his backyard.
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Two reputed gang members have been charged with murder for a Los Angeles Halloween shooting that killed a 5-year-old boy as he showed off his costume in his backyard.
Oakland police say 56 of the more than 150 protesters arrested Friday night were from outside the city. Protesters descended on a usually quiet residential neighborhood, demonstrating against the minimum two-year sentence imposed on a white transit officer for the slaying of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform.
The Oct. 31 attack -- blamed on misdirected gunfire from suspected Crips gang members raiding Bloods turf -- harkened back to the carnage of the 1980s and early '90s when brazen young men patrolled the streets of the area once called South Central and gave little thought to living or dying.
A Garden Grove gang member will serve 34 years in prison for shooting a stray bullet that hit a sergeant who was on leave from the war in Afghanistan.
A judge has sentenced a white former transit officer to two years in prison in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on a California train platform.
Los Angeles police say a 5-year-old boy who was killed in a Halloween shooting was the victim of a gang turf war.
A father is asking for help in solving the murder of his 17-year-old son, who was gunned down in Pico Rivera.
Investigators say an armed suspect has been shot to death by a San Bernardino police officer after a brief car chase.
Inglewood will pay $750,000 for the police shooting of a postal worker two years ago.
The family of a Guatemalan day laborer who was shot by police in a standoff early last month has filed a civil rights lawsuit for what they claim was the use of excessive force.
A veteran San Diego police officer has been shot to death during a shootout inside an apartment.
Authorities say a deputy-involved shooting in Lynwood left a 17-year-old male suspected burglar seriously wounded.
A Los Angeles man accused of involvement in a gang shooting that killed a 4-month-old boy has been convicted of a lesser charge.
Corona police have shot and killed a man they say pulled a weapon during a confrontation.
Police say a 21-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday at the end of a birthday party in Pacoima.
Authorities in Santa Monica Friday reported that police opened fire and killed a man they say had shot and wounded a woman moments before.
A former Playboy Playmate of the Year, who appeared in the horror movie "Rosemary's Baby," has been charged with shooting her husband at their Hollywood apartment.
A driver who ignored orders from an L.A. County Sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop has been charged along with three other suspects in the vehicle.
Officials in Hemet report that two men were fatally shot in an apartment Monday afternoon.
A man suspected of fatally shooting his estranged wife in the head surrendered Saturday night after an hours-long standoff in Santa Ana's Centennial Truck.
A man was fatally shot Wednesday by a fellow passenger on a Metro bus in Inglewood, according to authorities.
A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot in a drive-by near Banning High School Wednesday, according to authorities.
Police say a San Diego-area elementary where a man fired at children on a crowded playground and injured two girls will reopen on Monday.
Officials say LAPD law officers shot and wounded two suspects Saturday night in separate incidents.
A man was killed by gang members Saturday outside an Inglewood liquor store, police said.
