A Central California mother whose baby died inside her vehicle amid 100-plus-degree heat while she was having lip filler injections at a nearby spa has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Maya Hernandez, 20, of Visalia is expected to be sentenced to 15 years in prison at a March 5 hearing in Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield. Hernandez pleaded no contest to charges that included a pair of enhancements for great bodily harm to a victim younger than 5
The Chronicle reports that the jury found Watson not guilty of murder or elder abuse, and instead convicted him on just the lesser charges of involuntary manslaughter and assault. The difference with the lesser charges is critical. As the Chronicle explains, the involuntary manslaughter conviction comes with just a four-year prison sentence, as does the assault charge. Watson could face additional enhancements that could add as many as five years onto his sentence.
Stacey Lee Snow, 53, pleaded not guilty earlier this month to involuntary manslaughter in the death of the 16-month-old girl, who authorities said was found unresponsive after she had been put down for a nap April 8. The Medical Examiner's Office concluded that the girl asphyxiated, and the report indicated she'd had her head wedged between a plastic cot placed on top of a portable crib and the crib railing.
A 13-year-old girl was taken into custody over the weekend after fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy in Pomona, police said. On Sunday around 5:22 p.m., officers from the Pomona Police Department responded to a report of a shooting in the 1300 block of East Pasadena Avenue, where they found a 16-year-old boy suffering from a gunshot wound, police said. The Los Angeles County Fire Department arrived and pronounced him dead at the scene.
On October 21, 2021, filming of the western Rust resumed at a ranch 20 minutes from Santa Fe, New Mexico, after a lunch break. Alec Baldwin, the film's star, fired a Colt .45 revolver during a rehearsal. Unfortunately, the gun was loaded with several blanks and one live round, and the shot was aimed directly at the crew behind the camera, as the scene was to be filmed from that perspective.
At the preliminary hearing, Judge Thomas Stevens sided with a defense theory that the shooting was accidental and ordered Angelo Ray to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter, not murder.
