A 32-year-old California man has been arrested and charged with the murder of his half brother and attempted murder of the victim’s two children. The Redlands Police Department said they were called to an apartment Tuesday morning on a shots fired call and found 36-year-old Aaron Richard Rivera dead from gunshot wounds. The suspect had …
A wealthy California farm and energy mogul was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder of his estranged wife last month. Michael Abatti, 63, was indicted in Arizona, where Kerri Ann Abatti, 59, lived, on Tuesday and arrested that same day, the Navajo County Sheriff’s Office said. Kerri Ann Abatti was found unresponsive at her home …
A California couple has been arrested on murder and child abuse charges after a 7-year-old girl died from injuries suffered at the home and 5-year-old girl was hospitalized. Retuquel Dupree, a 27-year-old former police officer, and Jessica Savangsy, 26, were charged with murder, conspiracy, and child abuse, KCRA reported. The two victims were Savangsy’s daughters, …
Police in northern California on Monday responded to a medical aid call for an unresponsive child and found two injured children, one of whom died. The unresponsive 7-year-old girl was pronounced dead at a hospital, while the 5-year-old girl was taken for treatment, according to the Roseville Police Department. Police did not describe the injuries …
Grammy-nominated opera singer Jubilant Sykes was found stabbed to death in his Santa Monica home Monday after a 911 call alerted police to an assault in progress. Police arrived at the home just before 9:30 p.m. and found Sykes, 71, with “significant injuries,” Santa Monica Police Lt. Lewis Gilmour told MyNewsLA.com. He was pronounced dead …
Authorities in Southern California are investigating the death of an infant boy whose body was found Mondya afternoon in a portable restroom in Mission Bay. Police said an employee found the child’s body and called 911 just before 1:30 p.m., KSWB reported. Investigators say they have not identified the boy or his parents. They are …
A California man who earlier this year pleaded guilty to stabbing his stepmother to death and trying to kill his father has been sentenced to decades behind bars. Justin Tray Buchanan, 34, pleaded guilty in October to the murder of Kelly Jean Buchanan, the attempted murder of William Louis Buchanan, and a knife assault on …
Police in southern California are investigating the possible connection of a suicide in San Bernardino County with a double murder in Ventura County. Simi Valley Police said they received multiple reports of gunfire just before noon on Sunday and arrived on the scene to find a man and a woman in a driveway with multiple …
Four people — three of them children — were shot dead at a children’s birthday party in Stockton, California, early Saturday evening. The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said that 11 people were wounded in the shooting. The four dead were 8, 9, 14, and 21. Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee said in a Facebook …
Prosecutors are bringing the case of a teen girl found in the trunk of singer D4vd’s Tesla before an investigative grand jury. Sources told the Los Angeles Times that the grand jury met for several days in mid-November, but it wasn’t clear if the LA County District Attorney’s Office had completed presenting evidence. Prosecutors convene …
A 25-year-old California man has been charged with the murder in the death of his 83-year-old neighbor. Oceanside police have not released the identity of the victim, at the request of her family, but identified the suspect as Blake Harrison Turner, who lived directly across the hall from her at the Canyon Club Apartments, KGTV …
A source with the Los Angeles Police Department says that singer D4vd has been identified as a suspect in the death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas. KNBC reports that the source, “with direct knowledge of the investigation,” says that the Houston-born artist has not been cooperative with the investigation into the teen’s death. Rivas’s “severely decomposed” …
