Email from Los Angeles Police Protective League Daily News & Updates Law Enforcement News Man Charged With Attempted Murder in Shooting of LAPD Officer A man who allegedly used an untraceable “ghost gun” to shoot a Los Angeles Police Department officer during a foot chase in the Exposition Park area was charged Tuesday with attempted murder. Ernesto Sepulveda, 26, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on two counts of attempted murder involving the wounded officer and another uniformed LAPD Gang Enforcement Detail officer, along with one count of carrying an unregistered firearm. The attempted murder charges include allegations that Sepulveda personally and intentionally discharged a firearm and caused great bodily injury to one of the officers. The shooting occurred at 3:45 p.m. Saturday at 39th Place and Western Avenue, at or near Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Charles Miller told City News Service. The two officers were patrolling along the Western Avenue corridor near Martin Luther King Park when they spotted a man, later identified as riding a bicycle north on the sidewalk, according to an LAPD statement. “The officers believed that Sepulveda possessed a handgun and initiated a pedestrian stop on the 3900 block of South Western Avenue,” according to the LAPD. MyNewsLA Hollywood Police Arrest Stabbing Suspect A suspect was arrested Wednesday for allegedly stabbing a man in Hollywood. Officers from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Hollywood Division responded to reports of a stabbing at Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue at approximately 1:50 a.m. Wednesday. They learned the victim was stabbed while attempting to break up a fight outside of a bar, an LAPD spokesman told City News Service. The suspect was arrested at the scene. The victim was taken to a hospital in unknown condition, police said. MyNewsLA L.A. on pace to see lowest homicide total in nearly 60 years as killings plummet Homicides across Los Angeles fell by more than 20% in the first half of the year, leaving the city on pace to end 2025 with its lowest total for that crime category in nearly 60 years, according to an LAPD tally. Although violent crime persists in parts of the city, homicides overall in L.A. have dropped to 116 through June 28, the most recent date for which reliable data were available, compared to 152 in the same period last year. Homicides have been on a steady downward trajectory since 2021, when total killings eclipsed 400 amid the tumult of the COVID-19 pandemic. The falling homicide rate in the years since mirrors a national trend, with Baltimore, Detroit and other major cities recording similar declines. Experts say the country may be in the midst of the sharpest decline in killings in history — one that can’t be attributed to any single factor. Los Angeles Times Housekeeper inside during Beverly Crest home invasion, burglary Police are searching for a home invasion suspect following a break-in at a home in the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles overnight. The incident was reported around 1:20 a.m. at the residence on the 2500 block of Hutton Drive. A suspect entered through a second-floor window and took an unknown amount of property, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesperson confirmed to KTLA. A housekeeper was home at the time of the break-in but was not injured, the spokesperson said. The housekeeper called police to report the incident and noted that the home’s security cameras had been shut off, freelance media firm KNN reported. Video showed multiple officers arriving at the scene, but the suspect was nowhere to be found. KTLA 5 Arsonist burns down family’s shop in downtown Los Angeles A family is devastated after an arsonist burned down their shop in downtown Los Angeles, leaving them with tens of thousands of dollars in damage. Valerie Mendez’s family owns HM Hormiguitas, a beauty supply store in Santee Alley. They’ve been in operation for 15 years before an arsonist set fire to their shop on July 8. Surveillance video captured a male suspect walking toward the shop in the morning before business hours, while holding several unknown items and pushing a large dumpster over. The masked suspect attempts to hide behind the dumpster as he pours flammable liquid all over the ground at the shop’s entrance before lighting the spot on fire. He then sprints away from the growing blaze. “He had a bottle of liquid and he poured it on what I think is fabric,” Mendez told KTLA’s Sandra Mitchell. KTLA 5 4 accused of trying to disable vehicles in Van Nuys immigration enforcement operation Four people were arrested Tuesday after they allegedly interfered with a federal immigration enforcement operation in Van Nuys, the U.S. Border Patrol said. In a post on X, USBP Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino said the four suspects used "improvised devices aimed at disabling our vehicles." The post included photos of what appeared to be nails embedded in a strip of rubber attached to one of the vehicle's tires. Details about the identities of the people arrested and the immigration enforcement operation in the west San Fernando Valley community were not immediately available. It was not clear whether the vehicles were damaged. Video from the scene showed bystanders involved in a confrontation with federal agents in what appeared to be a business parking lot. The arrests followed weeks of immigration enforcement activity in Los Angeles stemming from President Trump's campaign promise to carry out mass deportations. In an interview with Fox News Monday after an operation at MacArthur Park in Westlake, Bovino said federal authorities will remain in Los Angeles "until that mission's accomplished." NBC 4 California parents convicted of child abuse that led to 5-year-old becoming quadriplegic A California mother and father have been convicted of felony child abuse and endangerment after their newborn son suffered severe brain damage and became a quadriplegic due to extreme heat and cold exposure and withheld nourishment. John Andres Gonzalez, 38, and Jaqueline Navarro, 45, both of Lindsay in Tulare County, have been convicted of one felony count of child abuse and endangerment and one felony enhancement of causing great bodily injury to a child under the age of five years old. The child's paternal grandmother, Patrizia Sanchez, was awarded custody of the child. Sanchez began contacting the Tulare County Department of Child Welfare Services in October 2019, when the infant was one month old, reporting concerns about his welfare. She continued to report the child's suffering 14 more times over several months. "Within weeks of their son’s birth began putting the infant in high-temperature saunas and ice baths and refused to feed the baby formula or breast milk because they believed it was toxic," a statement from the district attorney read. FOX 11 BWC: Man flees on foot before pulling gun, firing at Michigan officer Bodycam video released Monday shows a suspect running from and firing at a deputy before being shot dead last week in Niles Township. The suspect who was killed has been identified as Joshua B. Coffey, 48, of South Bend. Just prior to being shot dead, Coffey can be seen in the bodycam footage firing at Berrien County Sheriff’s Deputy Cal Landon. WNDU 16 obtained the bodycam video footage worn by Landon, which shows the suspect running from Landon. As the video begins, Landon is approaching a vehicle which was already pulled off on the side of Third Street, south of Fort Street, at around 6 p.m. on June 30. Two people, neither of whom were in the vehicle, are seen walking back to it. Landon asks for ID as he approaches and Coffey responds by saying that he doesn’t have any, but it may be in the car. Coffey then pauses in front of the car before taking off running across the street, down a sidewalk and into a park. As the deputy begins to give chase, the other suspect fled in the vehicle, Berrien County Sheriff Charles E. Heit stated previously. While giving chase, Landon is heard calling in backup. He then orders Coffey to: “Stop or you are going to get Tased” and orders him to the ground. PoliceOne BWC: Man uses stolen cruiser to ram pursuing patrol cars, points shotgun at Illinois officers before OIS Dramatic cop body cam video shows gunman Oscar M. McCurry II refusing to drop a stolen police shotgun before being shot and wounded by officers forced to defend themselves. And yet the video, released by the State Police late Thursday afternoon, also shows that the wounded McCurry still wouldn’t give up. He had dropped the shotgun but was still armed with a knife as he confronted police on U.S. 51 outside of Macon and kept screaming “Kill me, kill me, I’ve got to die” while surrounding officers shouted back at him over and over to “get on the ground, get on the ground.” The 38-year-old Macon man was finally taken into custody without further bloodshed to end the confrontation which happened on the morning of May 3 near the P&V Quickstop gas station. McCurry appeared Thursday in Macon County Circuit Court for a pretrial hearing and is denying charges of the aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon and aggravated battery of a peace officer among several other felony counts. A sworn affidavit said McCurry had commandeered a squad car during the confrontation and used it ram another squad car driven by an officer who is heard yelling out in pain on his body cam video after he was hit. The shotgun wielded by McCurry had been broken out of its secure case in the commandeered vehicle. Herald & Review, Decatur, Ill. Public Safety News LA opens cooling centers, offers AC unit rebates amid hotter temps With the first significant heat of the summer expected this week, Los Angeles has activated cooling centers and will offer rebates for AC units to keep residents safe, Mayor Karen Bass announced Tuesday. Increases in temperatures in Southern California are expected to begin Tuesday, with overall highs predicted to reach about 5 to 10 degrees above average, according to the National Weather Service. “As we experience high temperatures this week, I urge Angelenos to stay safe, stay cool and stay hydrated,'' Bass said in a statement. The city said it has hundreds of locations open for relief, including recreation and parks facilities, pools and public libraries. While peak heat is expected on Wednesday and Thursday, Bass said city resources are available throughout the city all week. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will also offer rebates of up to $275 on air conditioners for income-qualified customers through its “Cool LA” initiative. Eligible customers can receive up to $275 for Energy Star-rated window and through-the-wall units, and up to $225 for Title 20-compliant portable units. NBC 4 LA County Fire K-9 teams joining search and recovery efforts after deadly flooding in Texas Some members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department are stepping up to join the urgent search and recovery efforts following catastrophic flooding in Texas. The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services is deploying more than a dozen Urban Search and Rescue teams to help find the more than 160 people believed to be missing after a destructive wall of water killed over 100 people along the Guadalupe River in central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend. The deployment includes four Human Remains Detection Teams, including a total of eight K-9s. The teams are from Los Angeles County, Riverside City, Menlo Park and the Orange County fire departments. "The scale of loss and devastation Texas is experiencing right now is unfathomable. California is proud to lend a helping hand to our fellow Americans," Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a press release. ABC 7 L.A. firestorms and Texas floods show communities are ill-prepared for worsening climate disasters Two major climate disasters of 2025 — the Texas flooding that killed more than 100 people and the L.A. wildfires in January that resulted in 30 deaths and wiped out more than 15,000 homes and businesses — highlight the struggles officials face in fully preparing for extreme weather conditions. In both cases, the National Weather Service offered clear warnings of potentially life-threatening weather events; in Los Angeles, warnings were given days before extraordinary winds — of up to 100 mph — slammed a region already suffering from a record-dry fall. Even in Texas, more than a day before catastrophic flooding hit Kerr County, state officials — on July 2 — reiterated the weather service’s warnings that “heavy rainfall with the potential to cause flash flooding is anticipated across West Texas and the Hill Country” through the Fourth of July weekend. But for a variety of reasons, those warnings did not filter down with maximum urgency to various local agencies. In Los Angeles, despite NWS warnings of “life-threatening, destructive” winds, Los Angeles officials decided not to pre-deploy hundreds of firefighters in advance of devastating wildfires, a Times investigation found. Mayor Karen Bass was overseas in Ghana when the devastating Palisades wildfire — which resulted in 12 deaths — spread rapidly on Jan. 7. The National Weather Service began conducting briefings on the expected fire risk as early as Dec. 30. Los Angeles Times About the LAPPL: Formed in 1923, the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) represents more than 8,800 dedicated and professional sworn members of the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPPL serves to advance the interests of LAPD officers through legislative and legal advocacy, political action and education. 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