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One person was killed and a security guard was wounded Sunday morning following a shootout in South L.A., according to police.An armed security guard was trying to remove a man from a location near Washington Boulevard and Los Angeles Street about 7 a.m. when an argument broke out, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

Responding to a surge of catalytic converter thefts, the Los Angeles Police Department has unveiled new technology that will make it harder for thieves to steal the valuable emission control device.The Los Angeles police have already held events for people to have their cars' vehicle identification numbers etched by hand onto their catalytic converters to make it easier to track the car parts if they get stolen.

The Los Angeles Police Department seized about 38,000 pounds of illegal fireworks Wednesday from a warehouse in South Los Angeles - and this time it didn't blow up a neighborhood.(Los Angeles Police Department)

The large fireworks seizure and updated policy comes after the LAPD blew up a South L.A. neighborhood in June 2021 while trying to detonate a cache of fireworks, injuring 17 people, damaging 35 properties and displacing dozens of residents in the process.

An 83-year-old man got into a fight with another man, 31, at an Amazon Fresh in southwest Los Angeles on Tuesday and fatally shot the younger man, according to Los Angeles police.The octogenarian suspect was arrested late Tuesday afternoon, the LAPD reported.The shooting was first reported at 4:05 p.m. in the 6800 block of La Cienega Boulevard.

Police are searching for two men suspected of shooting a 1-year-old girl in South Los Angeles on Monday evening.Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to a report of an assault at 6 p.m. in the area of 81st Street and Avalon Boulevard.Officers at the scene found an injured toddler who had been shot in the foot about 20 minutes earlier.

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The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a string of five armed robberies at taco trucks within a week's span.No arrests have been made in the robberies, which police said may be connected.In addition, a shooting at a taco truck injured two men early Monday morning.

Los Angeles police announced a reward of up to $50,000 for information that might help identify a driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run Saturday evening in Northridge.The victim - a man in his 30s who has not been identified - was riding a motorcycle when he was hit by the driver of a dark-colored BMW sedan around 5:40 p.m., the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement.

A 40-year-old Los Angeles man has been arrested on suspicion of sexual assault, and police are seeking the public's help in identifying additional victims.Terrance Hawkins was arrested in downtown Los Angeles on April 26 and was booked on multiple counts of forcible rape, intimate partner violence, and stalking, according to an advisory issued by the Los Angeles Police Department.

Investigators were searching Saturday for four suspects in connection with an attack in Westlake that left three men and a homeless woman hospitalized with gunshot wounds, the Los Angeles Police Department said.The victims were standing in the 1000 block of Ingraham Street about 2 a.m. when they were approached by four men who "fired multiple shots from a vehicle," police said.

Volunteers check honey bee hives for queen activity and perform routine maintenance as part of a collaboration between the Cincinnati Zoo and TwoHoneys Bee Co. at EcOhio Farm in Mason, Ohio, on May 27, 2015.John Minchillo/AP A group of aggressive bees descended on passersby in Los Angeles this week and sent at least two people, including a police volunteer, to the hospital.

A 25-year-old Jordanian man who was killed in a suspected road rage attack in Marina Del Rey this week was described by friends and neighbors as a music-loving surfer who was building his life in Southern California.Mohammad Khair Hani Ali Zaid AlKilany, known to friends as Kilani, had lived for years in the Los Angeles area and had been working in real estate before he was fatally shot Monday, friends said.

A dog was shot and killed by LAPD officers after it bit someone Tuesday morning at a homeless encampment in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of South Los Angeles, police said.Officers responded to a radio call about a person being bit by a dog near the intersection of Vermont Avenue and West 70th Street at 10:24 a.m., according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Human remains found last month on an abandoned property in Santa Monica have been identified as the body of a tech founder and chief executive who was missing for a year and a half, the Los Angeles County coroner's office said.Beau Mann, 39, was last seen Nov. 30, 2021, at a convenience store in the 11000 block of Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

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Five people have now been arrested in connection with the stabbing of two teenagers near Los Angeles High School earlier this week, police say.But one of those suspects - the only one whose name has been publicly disclosed - was released from jail Friday after not being formally charged within the required time period, according to authorities.

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Erik and Lyle Menendez, the brothers who shot and killed their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion, are asking the courts to vacate their 1996 convictions, citing new evidence from a documentary series alleging that their father sexually assaulted a former underage member of Menudo.

A man was found dead late Monday next to a burning vehicle in Valley Village, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.Firefighters responded just before 9 p.m. to the burning vehicle near a vacant commercial building on West Riverside Drive, just north of the 101 Freeway, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

The Los Angeles Police Department was investigating the stabbing of two students Monday afternoon near Los Angeles High School, agency officials said.At least two victims, ages unknown, were reported near the intersection of Olympic and Rimpau boulevards around 4:20 p.m.The stabbing "was the result of an on-campus dispute," the LAPD said in a statement.

A brief police chase of a man who was driving recklessly ended Wednesday night in downtown Los Angeles with the suspect crashing into another car and injuring two people, sending one to the hospital, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Police began to follow a man driving a Honda around 9:08 p.m. when they saw the car driving recklessly on Wilshire Boulevard and Witmer Street, the LAPD said.

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Los Angeles police detectives on Wednesday served a search warrant at a Beverly Hills apartment they say is connected to a triple slaying outside a Benedict Canyon home earlier this year.In the most major development since the Jan. 28 attack that left three dead and four others wounded in an upscale hillside neighborhood on the Westside, LAPD detectives with the Robbery-Homicide Division gathered potential evidence inside the Beverly Hills high-rise Wednesday morning, police said.

Frustrated with local law enforcement agencies, Los Angeles County transit officials on Thursday rejected their proposals of a new contract to patrol buses and trains and signed off on a plan to explore creating their own police force.The move was a rebuke of local law enforcement that has been the backbone of security for Metro, costing the agency $912 million over the last six years.

A Los Angeles police officer was convicted Monday of perjury for filing a false police report about a 2019 driving-under-the-influence stop in Hollywood.Jurors deliberated for two hours before finding Officer Alejandro Castillo, 50, guilty on two felony counts.He faces up to four years and eight months in state prison, according to the L.A. County district attorney's office.

A mother of four on her way to work early Wednesday was killed in a Lake Balboa car crash that sent debris flying dozens of feet and left two vehicles mangled at the horrific scene, a friend of the woman confirmed.Kathy Chavez, 45, was heading to the Castaic post office, where she worked as a clerk, when her car was hit by a driver in a Chevrolet Corvette who police said was speeding and is believed to have run a red light.

Three Los Angeles police officers were wounded during a shootout with a wanted parolee, who was killed during the gunfire exchange.Officers were scouring the Lincoln Heights area on Wednesday for a parolee at large when they finally found him barricaded inside a shed around 6:45 p.m., according to a tweet from the LAPD.

A man has been spotted repeatedly exposing himself and touching himself in Studio City and on hiking paths in nearby Fryman Canyon, residents said.The man has not been arrested and his identity is unknown, though the Los Angeles Police Department is investigating the case.His lewd behavior has disturbed hikers who previously found Fryman Canyon a peaceful natural getaway and has raised fears of sexual violence.

One person was arrested Thursday at the scene of a massive fire at a two-story apartment building in Westlake, police said.Officers arrived at the building in the 2800 block of 7th Street about 3 p.m. in response to a report of a disturbance, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.As police were talking with the person who reported the incident, they were told that someone inside was lighting things on fire.

A 28-year-old man was arrested last week in New Mexico in the death of a woman at a Christmas Day street takeover in Los Angeles, police officials announced Tuesday.Dante Chapple Young was arrested Friday in Albuquerque in the killing of Elyzza Guajaca, 24, during the illegal street takeover.Los Angeles police said Young was from Orange County but didn't specify a city.

Pop singer Billie Eilish has filed a request for a restraining order against the 39-year-old man accused of breaking into her parents' Los Angeles home this month, court documents show.The order would protect herself, her parents and her brother, musician Finneas Baird O'Connell.Eilish, 21, said in a statement included with the request that Christopher Anderson got inside her family's Highland Park home "unannounced and uninvited after apparently professing his love for me and expressing that he really wanted to meet me."

A man killed a pair of dogs at his relative's house in Sun Valley in a possible home invasion, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Initially, police responded to the home on the 9100 block of Cayuga Avenue shortly after 3:30 p.m. for a suspected home invasion.When police arrived they found a man in the backyard being attacked by dogs that were protecting the property, said LAPD Officer J. Chavez.

For a disturbing 42 seconds, a Los Angeles police officer repeatedly stunned a teacher with a Taser gun this month as other officers tried to pin and handcuff the man in the middle of a busy Venice street.The gaps between pulses were so brief that Keenan Anderson, 31, could get out only a few words - including "Help me, please" - as he repeatedly cried out in agony.

A student at a San Fernando Valley high school who was hospitalized Tuesday may have eaten marijuana edibles, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.Police arrived at James Monroe High School, on Haskell Avenue in the North Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, shortly after 12:30 p.m. There, paramedics treated a patient, said Margaret Stewart, with the Los Angeles Fire Department.

The Los Angeles Police Department has tightened its policy on off-duty officers drinking alcohol while armed, making it a violation for an officer to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.04% or higher.The civilian Police Commission, which oversees the department, voted Tuesday in favor of the policy.The change prohibits officers who are carrying firearms while off duty from drinking "to the extent that it causes impairment."

Shameka Smith on Tuesday stood outside the Westlake apartment building where Los Angeles police had killed her husband the day before, wondering how things had gone so wrong."I begged them not to shoot him," she said, as family members draped their arms over her shoulders to comfort her.Smith and her relatives and friends called on the LAPD to release unedited video of the shooting recorded by officers' body-worn cameras, saying they questioned department officials' claim that Takar Smith was shot because he had raised a knife above his head as officers struggled to detain him.

The family of Theophilus London has filed a missing persons report with the Los Angeles Police Department, saying the 35-year-old rapper and singer hasn't been seen since July 2022."Over the last few weeks, friends and family of Theophilus London have been working together to piece together his whereabouts," his representatives wrote in a statement, noting that he was last reported in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Police Department on Wednesday released video from the scene and announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a driver who killed a 24-year-old woman during an illegal street takeover on Christmas Day.Elyzza Guajaca was watching the street takeover at the intersection of Florence Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard in Hyde Park around 9 a.m. with a group of about a hundred people, according to police.

Enough is in dispute about the fatal Los Angeles police shooting of a man in a Hollywood 24 Hour Fitness gym in 2018 that the controversial judicial doctrine of "qualified immunity" should not preclude a civil lawsuit filed by the man's family from going before a jury, a federal appellate court ruled Friday.

A French bulldog was nabbed Wednesday night while on a walk with its owner on the Westside of Los Angeles, authorities said - the latest in a rash of at-times violent robberies targeting the popular breed, which can fetch a high price on the black market.The woman who owned the dog told police she was on a walk in the 8000 block of Cashio Street around 9:15 pm when a male suspect began to tug on the leash from behind, according to a statement released by the Los Angeles Police Department.

A former church minister and foster mother was killed on Christmas Eve in South Los Angeles after a car hit her and then drove away.The Los Angeles Police Department told City News Service that the driver fled the scene about 3:30 p.m.The incident occurred at the corner of 88th Street and South Broadway.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating a deputy for allegedly engaging in a sex act during a break and broadcasting the tryst over her radio, officials said Thursday
A short audio recording first made public by TMZ captured part of the alleged encounter.In it, a woman laughs and says, "You're going to rip my underwear!"

A Los Angeles police officer accused of sending sexually explicit photos and videos of his wife, another officer, to some of their LAPD colleagues and other men faces misdemeanor charges, according to recent court filings.Brady Lamas, 45, was charged with six counts of disorderly conduct by distributing a private intimate image, according to a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday.

Several protesters were removed Saturday afternoon from the swearing-in ceremony of incoming Los Angeles City Councilwoman Traci Park, videos posted on social media show.Park, who will represent Venice and other Westside neighborhoods, was giving a speech at her event at Loyola Marymount University when at least five protesters separately stood up and interrupted Park's speech, according to videos posted by reporter Jon Peltz on Twitter.