A 10-hour-long standoff in California ended early Friday morning with the suspect and a 5-year-old child dead in an apparent murder-suicide. The Long Beach Police Department said they were called to the home just after 2:30 p.m. on Thursday for a “domestic dispute.” When officers arrived, they saw smoke and fire coming from the home …
A San Diego man strangled his estranged wife and then shot himself to death in a casino parking lot last week, leaving the couple’s three adult children with a desperate search for their parents just before the holiday. Melissa, 45, and Johnny Soto, 52, were reported missing by their children after Johnny Soto sent the …
The bodies of a California couple who vanished five days before Christmas were found Tuesday in a vehicle at a casino parking lot in Campo, dead from an apparent murder-suicide. The San Diego Police Department said that officers from US Customs and Border Patrol found “a vehicle that was associated with a missing persons case …
California police rushed to the scene of a domestic violence call on Christmas Eve and watched as the home where the incident occurred erupted into flames. The victim and her other family members fled the Hermosa Beach home at about 3:30 p.m. after the suspect threatened her. The first 911 call reported a loud argument …
The owner of the home where a 27-year-old school teacher was found dead in the trunk of a burned out car has been arrested for her murder. Matthew Switalski, 37, was named a “person of interest” last week after finding the body in the car trunk in the garage of his Lancaster home on December …
California law enforcement are looking for a “person of interest” after finding the body of a 27-year-old school teacher in the trunk of a car after an explosion and fire in a Lancaster garage. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it was looking for Matthew Switalski, 37, who is “wanted only for questioning at …
A California firefighter and paramedic wanted for stabbing his ex-wife and killing her boyfriend Thursday morning was found dead hours later in Mendocino County. Sources told KGO that Jason Gillenwater, 46, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police had been tracking Gillenwater since 8 a.m., when he stabbed his ex-wife and her boyfriend …
An infant at the center of an AMBER Alert issued in California has been found safe. No additional information is available at this time. Initial Coverage The California Highway Patrol activated an Amber Alert for a 7-month-old girl believed taken by a man with the same last name early Thursday morning. Milori Colon was last …
Authorities in California have identified the road rager who killed a 4-year-old boy in the back seat of his parents’ car last week. Byron Burkhart, 29, is charged with one count of murder, two counts of attempted murder, one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle, and five counts of possession of a firearm by …
A 4-year-old boy was shot dead Friday evening when an angry driver opened fire into his family’s vehicle. The boy was in the back seat and struck by gunfire in the upper body, police told the Los Angeles Times. His parents rushed him to a hospital, but it was too late, and he was pronounced …
A California man is dead from what prosecutors called a “justifiable homicide” early Saturday morning after he tried to kidnap his estranged wife and was shot by a witness. The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office says Christopher Saunders, 35, drove to an apartment in Sacramento shortly after midnight, left his car running in the parking lot, …
San Francisco police are investigating the death of a 27-year-old woman found dead in her apartment last week as a domestic violence homicide, but no arrests have been made. Kimberly Wong, who worked at banking software firm Plaid, lived with her boyfriend in an apartment on Clay Street, the San Francisco Standard reported. Police came …
