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Body Found At Dockweiler State Beach Identified As Missing Culver City Man
June 17, 2013 at 10:00 pm
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Police today released a statement identifying the man whose body was found last week at Dockweiler State Beach. [ more › ]
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Sheriff’s Department Collects 152 Guns In Buyback Event
June 17, 2013 at 9:21 pm
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EAST LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department collected 152 guns in a buyback event at Belvedere Park on Saturday.
Assault rifles, handguns, and shotguns were among those collected in the department’s Gifts for Guns exchange, according to Sergeant Colin Matsumoto of the sheriff’s East Los Angeles Station.
Those who turned in weapons received gift certificates to Target stores or Ralph’s supermarkets.
At a press conference Wednesday, Sheriff Lee Baca said the department would offer $200 gift cards for assault weapons, $100 cards for handguns, rifles or shotguns and $50 cards for non-operational firearms.
Firearms are surrendered anonymously, and there is a “no questions asked” policy.
Some scholars question the effectiveness of gun buyback programs. A 2004 report by the National Academy of Sciences titled “Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review” found that the weapons typically turned in at such events are the least likely to be used in a crime.
The city’s sixth gun buyback event, held in May, yielded nearly 1,200 weapons.
According to officials, the anonymous gun buyback program has removed 11,151 guns from the street during Villaraigosa’s administration.
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anonymous gun buyback program has removed 11,151 guns from the street during Villaraigosa’s administration.
(©2013 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.)
EAST LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department collected 152 guns in a buyback event at Belvedere Park on Saturday.
Assault rifles, handguns, and shotguns were among those collected in the department’s Gifts for Guns exchange, according to Sergeant Colin Matsumoto of the sheriff’s East Los Angeles Station.
Those who turned in weapons received gift certificates to Target stores or Ralph’s supermarkets.
At a press conference Wednesday, Sheriff Lee Baca said the department would offer $200 gift cards for assault weapons, $100 cards for handguns, rifles or shotguns and $50 cards for non-operational firearms.
Firearms are surrendered anonymously, and there is a “no questions asked” policy.
Some scholars question the effectiveness of gun buyback programs. A 2004 report by the National Academy of Sciences titled “Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review” found that the weapons typically turned in at such events are the least likely to be used in a crime.
The city’s sixth gun buyback event, held in May, yielded nearly 1,200 weapons.
According to officials, the anonymous gun buyback program has removed 11,151 guns from the street during Villaraigosa’s administration.
(©2013 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.)
Restraining order didn’t work for West Hills mother of two
June 17, 2013 at 8:41 pm
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A husband vows to kill his wife. She gets a restraining order, but the threats keep coming. She begs the police for help. They tell her to hide. He finds her anyway. | THE LATEST: LAUSD teacher suspected in wife’s West Hills stabbing death captured in …
Funeral Service Held For Santa Monica Shooter And His Father, Brother
June 17, 2013 at 8:40 pm
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SANTA MONICA (CBSLA.com) — The 23-year-old man accused of killing five people in a shooting rampage in Santa Monica was buried Monday along with his father and brother, his first two victims.
John Zawahri is accused of killing his father, 55-year-old Samir, and his 25-year-old brother, Christopher, at their Yorkshire Avenue home before going on a shooting spree on city streets and at Santa Monica College that killed three others.
He was eventually gunned down by police in the school’s library.
The shooter’s uncle, Mansour El Zawahri, traveled from Canada to attend the service at a chapel in Santa Monica. All three men were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.
CBS2 was granted exclusive access to the service.
COMPLETE COVERAGE: Santa Monica Rampage
“We would like to give our condolences to all the victims’ families,” El Zawahri told CBS2′s Jeff Nguyen.
“Samir was gentle, sensitive, hard-working,” he said.
Randa Abdou, the suspect’s mother, did not speak to reporters, and reportedly kept her distance from her former in-laws.
“She’s not talking to me,” said El Zawahri. “She does not give any condolences or anything like that.”
According to her in-laws, Abdou said she spoke to John Zawahri from Lebanon 30 minutes before the shooting rampage began, and had purchased the clothes Zawahri was wearing in a surveillance photo taken at Santa Monica College.
It is still unknown how the 23-year-old Zawahri obtained the guns and ammunition used to carry out the attack.
“We know from his mother that he was fascinated with guns,” his uncle said.
According to his family, his father Samir did his best to provide for his son and they are angered by his actions. The Zawahri family said they have not read the note John Zawahri left behind.
They also said it was John who lived with his father, contrary to earlier reports.
“John unfortunately was spoiled, ungrateful,” he said. “And what he did is evil, evil, evil.”
shooting rampage in Santa Monica was buried Monday along with his father and brother, his first two victims.
John Zawahri is accused of killing his father, 55-year-old Samir, and his 25-year-old brother, Christopher, at their Yorkshire Avenue home before going on a shooting spree on city streets and at Santa Monica College that killed three others.
He was eventually gunned down by police in the school’s library.
The shooter’s uncle, Mansour El Zawahri, traveled from Canada to attend the service at a chapel in Santa Monica. All three men were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.
CBS2 was granted exclusive access to the service.
COMPLETE COVERAGE: Santa Monica Rampage
“We would like to give our condolences to all the victims’ families,” El Zawahri told CBS2′s Jeff Nguyen.
“Samir was gentle, sensitive, hard-working,” he said.
Randa Abdou, the suspect’s mother, did not speak to reporters, and reportedly kept her distance from her former in-laws.
“She’s not talking to me,” said El Zawahri. “She does not give any condolences or anything like that.”
According to her in-laws, Abdou said she spoke to John Zawahri from Lebanon 30 minutes before the shooting rampage began, and had purchased the clothes Zawahri was wearing in a surveillance photo taken at Santa Monica College.
It is still unknown how the 23-year-old Zawahri obtained the guns and ammunition used to carry out the attack.
“We know from his mother that he was fascinated with guns,” his uncle said.
According to his family, his father Samir did his best to provide for his son and they are angered by his actions. The Zawahri family said they have not read the note John Zawahri left behind.
They also said it was John who lived with his father, contrary to earlier reports.
“John unfortunately was spoiled, ungrateful,” he said. “And what he did is evil, evil, evil.”
SANTA MONICA (CBSLA.com) — The 23-year-old man accused of killing five people in a shooting rampage in Santa Monica was buried Monday along with his father and brother, his first two victims.
John Zawahri is accused of killing his father, 55-year-old Samir, and his 25-year-old brother, Christopher, at their Yorkshire Avenue home before going on a shooting spree on city streets and at Santa Monica College that killed three others.
He was eventually gunned down by police in the school’s library.
The shooter’s uncle, Mansour El Zawahri, traveled from Canada to attend the service at a chapel in Santa Monica. All three men were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.
CBS2 was granted exclusive access to the service.
COMPLETE COVERAGE: Santa Monica Rampage
“We would like to give our condolences to all the victims’ families,” El Zawahri told CBS2′s Jeff Nguyen.
“Samir was gentle, sensitive, hard-working,” he said.
Randa Abdou, the suspect’s mother, did not speak to reporters, and reportedly kept her distance from her former in-laws.
“She’s not talking to me,” said El Zawahri. “She does not give any condolences or anything like that.”
According to her in-laws, Abdou said she spoke to John Zawahri from Lebanon 30 minutes before the shooting rampage began, and had purchased the clothes Zawahri was wearing in a surveillance photo taken at Santa Monica College.
It is still unknown how the 23-year-old Zawahri obtained the guns and ammunition used to carry out the attack.
“We know from his mother that he was fascinated with guns,” his uncle said.
According to his family, his father Samir did his best to provide for his son and they are angered by his actions. The Zawahri family said they have not read the note John Zawahri left behind.
They also said it was John who lived with his father, contrary to earlier reports.
“John unfortunately was spoiled, ungrateful,” he said. “And what he did is evil, evil, evil.”
LAPD says it tried hard to protect woman killed in West Hills
June 17, 2013 at 7:30 pm
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Los Angeles police officials said Monday they did what they could to protect a woman who investigators said was hunted down by her estranged husband at a friend’s home and stabbed to death on a quiet West Hills street.
Port of Los Angeles unveils final plans for $500 million AltaSea marine research center
June 17, 2013 at 3:15 pm
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Years in the making, Los Angeles port officials today unveiled final plans to create a $500 million marine research center on a 100-year-old pier along San Pedro’s waterfront. Gallery: AltaSea project announced at Port of Los Angeles
LAUSD Teacher Accused Of Fatally Stabbing Wife Captured At Joshua Tree Motel
June 17, 2013 at 9:02 am
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JOSHUA TREE (CBSLA.com) — An LAUSD elementary school teacher accused of stabbing his wife to death outside of a San Fernando Valley home was arrested Monday after two days on the run.
Michael Rodney Kane, 46, was arrested at 12:05 a.m. at a motel in Joshua Tree, officials with the Los Angeles and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s departments said.
Authorities found Kane’s vehicle in Yucca Valley Sunday and later tracked him to the motel.
“The door was locked from the inside. Based on the seriousness of the crime and us having information that the suspect was seriously injured, for his safety and well being, the door was kicked in and he was taken into custody,” Det. Dave Patek told KNX 1070′s John Baird.
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Kane was arrested without incident and transported to the LAPD’s Topanga station.
He had been on the lam since early Saturday morning when he allegedly killed his 43-year-old wife, Michelle Kane, in the 7100 block of Deveron Ridge Road in West Hills.
She been staying at a friend’s house since Friday, when Kane allegedly showed up at her Canoga Park townhouse and busted out windows on the front door and the garage.
Kane’s wife filed a restraining order, but police say he found her at her friend’s home, forced his way into the house and confronted her.
When she tried to flee, he allegedly stabbed her in the street. Neighbors say they heard Michelle’s cries as she begged her husband to stop.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the Daily News, Michael Kane has been a teacher at Nestle Avenue Charter Elementary in Tarzana since 2008.
The couple’s children — a 2-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl — are safe and staying with relatives.
Additional details about Kane’s arrest were not released.
Kane was arrested without incident and transported to the LAPD’s Topanga station.
He had been on the lam since early Saturday morning when he allegedly killed his 43-year-old wife, Michelle Kane, in the 7100 block of Deveron Ridge Road in West Hills.
She been staying at a friend’s house since Friday, when Kane allegedly showed up at her Canoga Park townhouse and busted out windows on the front door and the garage.
Kane’s wife filed a restraining order, but police say he found her at her friend’s home, forced his way into the house and confronted her.
When she tried to flee, he allegedly stabbed her in the street. Neighbors say they heard Michelle’s cries as she begged her husband to stop.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the Daily News, Michael Kane has been a teacher at Nestle Avenue Charter Elementary in Tarzana since 2008.
The couple’s children — a 2-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl — are safe and staying with relatives.
Additional details about Kane’s arrest were not released.
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Michael Rodney Kane, 46, was arrested at 12:05 a.m. at a motel in Joshua Tree, officials with the Los Angeles and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s departments said.
Authorities found Kane’s vehicle in Yucca Valley Sunday and later tracked him to the motel.
“The door was locked from the inside. Based on the seriousness of the crime and us having information that the suspect was seriously injured, for his safety and well being, the door was kicked in and he was taken into custody,” Det. Dave Patek told KNX 1070′s John Baird.
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Kane was arrested without incident and transported to the LAPD’s Topanga station.
He had been on the lam since early Saturday morning when he allegedly killed his 43-year-old wife, Michelle Kane, in the 7100 block of Deveron Ridge Road in West Hills.
She been staying at a friend’s house since Friday, when Kane allegedly showed up at her Canoga Park townhouse and busted out windows on the front door and the garage.
Kane’s wife filed a restraining order, but police say he found her at her friend’s home, forced his way into the house and confronted her.
When she tried to flee, he allegedly stabbed her in the street. Neighbors say they heard Michelle’s cries as she begged her husband to stop.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the Daily News, Michael Kane has been a teacher at Nestle Avenue Charter Elementary in Tarzana since 2008.
The couple’s children — a 2-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl — are safe and staying with relatives.
Additional details about Kane’s arrest were not released.
">2 Killed In Crash Involving Motorcycle, Vehicle In Long Beach
June 17, 2013 at 8:42 am
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LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Two people were killed Monday in an accident involving a vehicle and a motorcycle in Long Beach.
The crash was reported around 6:10 a.m. at Wardlow Road and Norwalk Boulevard, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A man in his 30s and a woman in her 60s were pronounced dead at the scene.
It was unclear how many people were on the motorcycle.
The intersection was shut down while officials investigated.
No further details were released.
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Santa Monica Residents Call for Peace
June 17, 2013 at 6:52 am
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After back-to-back, deadly shootings in Santa Monica, community members have taken to the streets to call for peace.
More than 100 people walked through the streets of Santa Monica on
Scammers Target LADWP Ratepayers
June 17, 2013 at 6:42 am
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Scammers have been posing as employees of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and trying to trick Angelenos into giving up money or financial information.Photo Credit: AP Photo/Nick Ut
Northridge fire hits 2-story apartment building
June 17, 2013 at 5:54 am
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NORTHRIDGE – It took 39 Los Angeles firefighters 16 minutes to put out a blaze in a unit of a two-story Northridge apartment building Sunday night, a fire department spokeswoman said today.
West Hills neighbors tried to intervene as teacher allegedly killed ex-wife
June 16, 2013 at 9:42 pm
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Residents in a quiet West Hills neighborhood came to the aid Michelle Kane, whose estranged husband, Michael, an elementary school educator, is being sought in her death.
Los Angeles police continued to search Sunday for a 46-year-old elementary school teacher who they said stabbed his estranged wife and left her to die on a quiet residential street in West Hills as neighbors rushed to her side.
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Residents in a quiet West Hills neighborhood came to the aid Michelle Kane, whose estranged husband, Michael, an elementary school educator, is being sought in her death.
Los Angeles police continued to search Sunday for a 46-year-old elementary school teacher who they said stabbed his estranged wife and left her to die on a quiet residential street in West Hills as neighbors rushed to her side.
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