Recent Posts in Murder Category
Posted on May 10, 2012 By admin
A Santa Ana, California gang member was sentenced to life in prison without parole for his part in the 2010 death of a 16-year-old who was shot in the back as he fled semiautomatic gunfire, according ...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2012 By admin
California Gov. Jerry Brown commuted the prison sentence of a 51-year-old woman convicted of shaking her infant grandson to death 15 years ago, citing significant doubts about her guilt. Shirley Ree ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2012 By admin
The man arrested in the brutal slaying of 5 people in a San Francisco home has been charged with five counts of murder with special circumstances, which makes him eligible for the death penalty. The ...
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Posted on Mar 11, 2012 By admin
A former California Highway Patrol officer whose tearful testimony of self-defense failed to sway a jury was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for murder of her husband. Tomiekia Johnson cried ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2012 By admin
An Orange County, California gang member was convicted of special circumstances murder of a man during a botched drug sale . According to the Orange County district attorney's office, Robert Reil, ...
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Posted on Mar 4, 2012 By asmin
A man is scheduled to go to trial in Orange County, California in the case of the rape and killing of his neighbor in 1988. The case was considered cold until police linked the defendant's DNA to ...
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Posted on Feb 22, 2012 By admin
A former Marine who has been charged with fatally stabbing six people in an Orange County, California crime spree that spanned nearly 3 months pleaded not guilty. Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, appeared ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2012 By admin
A woman was sentenced to 14 years in a California state prison for her role in recruiting a gang member to kill her co-worker's brother in an Orange County murder-for-hire conspiracy. Edelmira ...
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Posted on Dec 26, 2011 By admin
A Riverside County, California sheriff's deputy, who was off-duty when he shot a man inside a sports bar in Murrieta, has been charged with murder . Dayle Long, who is a 10-year department ...
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Posted on Dec 22, 2011 By admin
A former Camp Pendleton Marine charged with murder of a fellow Marine from the base in a dispute over stolen drug money has been convicted of murder. Christian Carney was a drug dealer who sold ...
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Posted on Dec 15, 2011 By admin
Robert Valdez, pleaded guilty to 19 felony counts, including arson and two counts of first-degree murder , was sentenced to 605 years in state prison, with two consecutive terms of life without the ...
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Posted on Sep 6, 2011 By admin
Seven people were arrested in Santa Ana, California related to a crime spree that included attempted murder, carjacking and a car crash after attempting to evade police during a chase. Edgar Bustos, ...
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Posted on Feb 22, 2011 By admin
He was the shot-caller in the Asian Boyz gang and he now has to face justice in connection with at least eight murders and 10 shootings in the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys. A jury convicted ...
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Posted on Feb 2, 2011 By admin
Dozens of members of Los Angeles' 38th Street gang were arrested under a federal racketeering indictment saying they are responsible for numerous murders and drug trafficking , as well as ...
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Posted on Jan 27, 2011 By admin
A series of raids across Los Angeles County targeting gang members of the Gardena 13 led to 11 arrests, including a man wanted on suspicion of killing two brothers and another man at a 2008 car ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2011 By admin
More than a decade after 13-year-old Isunero Pounds was shot to death in front of his Compton, California home, a gang member already serving two life sentences has been convicted of the drive-by ...
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Posted on Dec 29, 2010 By admin
Los Angeles police have identified a second suspect in connection with the suffocation slaying of an 80-year-old Mar Vista woman, a crime that occurred 35 years ago this month. Kevin Shanahan has been ...
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Posted on Nov 17, 2010 By admin
In Van Nuys, California, a Santa Monica man was convicted of murdering a 22-year-old female friend whose body was found in the trunk of her car in Valley Village after a fax was sent to a television ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2010 By admin
In Los Angeles, California, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging four men with conspiring to kidnap, threaten to murder, and steal approximately $5 million from a Los Angeles resident, ...
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