Daily News & Updates   Law Enforcement News Man Killed, Another Wounded In Shooting Outside Downtown Los Angeles Bar An investigation is underway Thursday after two men were shot outside a bar in downtown Los Angeles overnight. The shooting was reported around 11:45 p.m. Wednesday outside the business located at 410 Boyd Street, Los Angeles Police Department Lt. Boyle confirmed to KTLA. The address is associated with The Escondite, which offers food, live music and drinks, according to its website. Investigators believe the two victims were outside the location when they were involved in an altercation with two other men. One of those suspects then pulled out a handgun and shot at the two victims, Boyle said. One victim, described as a 47-year-old Hispanic man, was pronounced dead after being taken to a local hospital. The second victim, a Hispanic man of unknown age, was listed at a hospital in stable condition, Boyle said. There was no further description of the suspects or any possible vehicle connected to the shooting. KTLA 5 Man In 50s Struck, Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver In Pacoima A man in his 50s was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Pacoima late Wednesday evening. Officers were dispatched to the 11900 block of Foothill Boulevard at around 9 p.m. after learning of the incident, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Circumstances leading up to the crash remain unclear, but police arrived to find the victim lying in the street. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No information has yet been provided on his identity. They say that the man driving a green 2004 GMC Sierra pickup truck was last seen fleeing northbound from Terra Bella Street. He is said to have a brown beard and mustache. Investigators are hopeful that anyone who witnessed the incident will provide additional information by contacting them at (818) 644-8020. CBS 2 LA Mother Of 4 Seeks Public’s Help Finding Hit-and-Run Driver Who Left Her Severely Injured A Los Angeles woman continues to recover from a brain injury after she was struck by a hit-and-run driver and left for dead. Nearly two years later, she pleads for the public's help with finding who did this. The horrific incident occurred in Sept. 2022 on what was supposed to be a quick night walk to a convenience store. Instead, Donna Harting was hit at the intersection of Kewen Avenue and Lankershim Boulevard in Sun Valley, on a marked crosswalk, by a dump truck around 3 a.m. Two weeks later, she woke up in the hospital severely injured with no recollection of what happened. "If you hit a human being, you stop. You don't just leave somebody dead in the middle of the street. You know, I have a family. I have kids, you know, I'm really upset that [they] didn't stop," Harting said. She suffered a traumatic brain injury. She has long-term memory loss and can’t retain new memories. In addition, her doctors said she will have pain in her neck, back and knees for the rest of her life. FOX 11 Mother And Son Charged With Kidnapping, Sex Trafficking Two 13-Year-Olds From Lynwood Home A mother-son pair was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children for allegedly abducting and pimping out two 13-year-old girls last summer, federal prosecutors said in court papers. Reuben Gilliam and Daisy Pollard-Gilliam were arrested last month and indicted Wednesday for their involvement in the kidnapping of the two teens, who were missing for six days in June after they disappeared on the street in Bell Gardens, prosecutors said. The girls, referred to only as Victim 1 and Victim 2 in court papers, were snatched on the street by Gilliam and two other men who approached them in a car around 2:00 a.m. on June 3, prosecutors alleged. One of the men hopped out of the car and told the girls to get in or else another man in the car would force them into the vehicle, said an FBI agent in an affidavit filed in the case. The girls got in the car and were taken to a residence on Flower Street in Lynwood that the federal agent said belonged to Pollard-Gilliam. Pollard-Gilliam rented the home out on Airbnb, the agent said. Over the course of the next week, the girls were pimped out to men who paid $100 for sex, according to the affidavit. Gilliam also had sexual relations with the underage teens, prosecutors said. Los Angeles Times Man Arrested For Allegedly Stabbing Woman In Culver City A 35-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a woman in a Culver City parking lot, police said Wednesday. Officers responded to the 6100 block of Slauson Avenue at around 2:45 p.m. Sunday after multiple callers reported what appeared to be an altercation between two people in a parking lot, according to the Culver City Police Department. They found a woman who had been stabbed multiple times. She was taken to a hospital and has since been released, police said. Detectives discovered that Jorge Arnoldo Vasquez approached the woman in a parking garage outside a retail business and allegedly stabbed her multiple times before she was able to remove the knife from his hands. Vasquez allegedly fled the area on foot, but was located a short time later hiding in bushes at Cougar Park near where the attack took place, authorities said. "Initially, the suspect provided a false identity to police, indicating he was thirty-eight years old," police said in a statement. Westside Current USC faculty censures university president, provost over Gaza protest response USC’s Academic Senate, which represents the university’s faculty, formally censured USC President Carol Folt and Provost Andrew Guzman Thursday over their handling of dramatic changes in commencement activities and other responses to campus protests sparked by the Israel-Hamas war. According to the Daily Trojan campus newspaper, the senate voted 21-7 in favor of the censure, with six members abstaining. The censure cited “widespread dissatisfaction and concern” regarding decisions made by Folt and Guzman surrounding commencement activities and the pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Orange County Register California Woman Accused Of Assaulting 2-Year-Old On Delta Flight A California woman was arrested for allegedly assaulting a child on an international flight Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Multiple passengers on a flight from Mexico to Seattle witnessed the Sacramento woman, 33, assault a 2-year-old who was traveling with her on the Delta flight on May 1, according to a Department of Justice press release. At one point the child, who was in the window seat, woke up the woman, who allegedly turned and kicked the 2-year-old, then shook the toddler “like a rag doll,” the release stated. The DOJ said the woman continued to abuse the child despite interventions from passengers and was arrested when the plane landed in Sea-Tac airport. USA Today reports that a member of the Civil Aviation Security Program who was called to the scene saw multiple bruises visible on the child’s face and body. The woman reportedly explained the marks, saying that a dog had caused them one week before the flight. KTLA 5 Newsom Says CHP Work In Cities Has Led To ‘Unprecedented’ Fentanyl Seizures Appearing at a memorial service for fallen officers, Gov. Gavin Newsom this week praised the “unprecedented” work done by the California Highway Patrol after he dispatched officers across the state to help combat organized retail theft rings and fentanyl trafficking. The Newsom administration, facing increased political pressure, turned to the CHP to address rising concerns about crime. When contentious, sometimes violent student protests erupted on college campuses over the war in Gaza, the governor made CHP officers available to help when requested by local agencies. “You’ve been asked proactively to go out recently ... throughout California,” Newsom said Tuesday during a CHP memorial service in Sacramento. “We are making unprecedented seizures around fentanyl. The work you’re doing around retail theft ... you’ve never been asked to do more.” Experts say this isn’t the first time a governor has deployed state officers to local cities and is keeping up with the mission of the state police to serve as part of the state’s mutual-aid system, where state officers serve as reinforcement if local agencies are strapped. But his use of the CHP comes as California is facing national ridicule for high-profile thefts and open drug use, which may put political pressure on the governor to respond with visible actions. Los Angeles Times Firearms Are Being Stolen From Cars At Triple The Rate They Were 10 Years Ago, Report Finds The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an analysis of FBI data by the gun safety group Everytown found. The rate of stolen guns from cars climbed nearly every year and spiked during the coronavirus pandemic along with a major surge in weapons purchases in the U.S., according to the report, which analyzes FBI data from 337 cities in 44 states and was provided to The Associated Press. The stolen weapons have, in some cases, turned up at crime scenes. In July 2021, a gun taken from an unlocked car in Riverside, Florida, was used to kill a 27-year-old Coast Guard member as she tried to stop a car burglary in her neighborhood. The alarming trend underscores the need for Americans to safely secure their firearms to prevent them from getting into the hands of dangerous people, said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Steve Dettelbach, whose agency has separately found links between stolen guns and violent crimes. “People don’t go to a mall and steal a firearm from a locked car to go hunting. Those guns are going straight to the street,” said Dettelbach, whose agency was not involved in the report. “They’re going to violent people who can’t pass a background check. They’re going to gangs. They’re going to drug dealers, and they’re going to hurt and kill the people who live in the next town, the next county or the next state.” Associated Press Local Government News LA City Council OKs Study To Shutdown San Pedro Gas Storage Facility The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday called for a study evaluating the cost and timeline for closing a gas storage facility in San Pedro that has been in operation since 1973. Council members voted unanimously in favor of a motion introduced by Councilman Tim McOsker, who represents the 15th District, which includes the Harbor Area. McOsker had requested an amortization study of the Rancho LPG Facility, a butane and propane storage site, in hopes of finding a pathway for its closure. “These are two tanks capable of holding 25 millions of butane,” McOsker told his colleagues prior to the vote. “We’ve have (had) a number of motions over the years to look at safety measures and try to conform this use more closely to the surrounding uses of recreational, educational and residential.” He added, “I appreciate the support from this council to look at an amortization study for this very use. I realize the significant of that, and we will be talking about it in just a couple of hours at budget — about the costs of such a study and the costs of managing it all the way to its completion.” MyNewsLA LA City Council Approves Incentives For Organic Waste Disposal The Los Angeles City Council approved a new program Wednesday to encourage more restaurants and residents to properly dispose of organic waste. The council voted 11-0 in favor of establishing the LA Organic Compliance Incentive Program, which is intended to support the city’s recycLA efforts and comply with Senate Bill 1383. The state law aims to achieve a 75% reduction in emissions of short-lived climate pollutants by 2025, and rescue at least 20% of currently disposed surplus food by the same year for people to eat. Council members Kevin de León, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Curren Price and Monica Rodriguez were absent during the vote. The move comes in response to a motion introduced by council members Katy Yaroslavsky and Hugo Soto-Martinez in February. According to city documents, the state law requires all residential and commercial customers to participate in organics recycling — and the council adopted an ordinance in December 2022 to comply with the bill. However, the city currently lags in compliance, with only 32,414 or 48% of commercial and multifamily customers serviced by the city’s recycLA program compliant. 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