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On January 31, 1992, Thomas murdered Carlos Adkins in an apartment in Torrance by shooting him. [5]Over a year later, on the night of February 22, 1993, at about 11 p.m., Compton Police Officer Kevin Michael Burrell, 29, [6] and Reserve Officer James Wayne MacDonald, 24, [7] made a routine traffic stop in Compton, at the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue and Dwight Avenue, on a red 1992 ...
In 2012, the Los Angeles Police Department reported that crime had declined in the city for the 10th consecutive year. [1] In 2013, Los Angeles reported 296 homicides in the city proper, which corresponds to a rate of 6.3 per 100,000 population—a notable decrease from 1980, when the all time homicide rate of 34.2 per 100,000 population was ...
Los Angeles: 1922-02-01: Director of 59 silent films shot in the back at his apartment, unsolved, subject of frenzy of sensationalist press coverage [154] 3: Murder of Marion Parker: Los Angeles: 1927-12-17: 12-year-old girl abducted and murdered, billed as "the most horrible crime of the 1920s" by the Los Angeles Times [155] [156] 4: Brooke ...
"American Nightmare" victims Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn worked with two small-town law enforcement officials to get kidnapper Matthew Muller to confess to more cold case crimes.
For over a year, a serial killer terrorized Los Angeles — until its residents took him down. Richard Muñoz Ramirez, dubbed by the media as the Night Stalker, killed at least 15 people and ...
Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said the couple, later identified as Beverly Harmon, 58, and Wendell Harmon, 62, were found dead Dec. 20, after loved ones called for a welfare check.
In 2010, Los Angeles reported 293 homicides. [6] The 2010 number corresponds to a rate of 7.6 per 100,000 population. Murders in Los Angeles have decreased since the peak year of 1993, when the homicide rate was 21.1 (per 100,000 population). [7]
In what family members are calling a senseless act of violence, police in Southern California are investigating after a 19-year-old man was fatally shot in along a Los Angeles street just days ...