Law Enforcement News Man Kills His Grandmother And Then Himself At Home In Monterey Hills, Police Say Los Angeles police are investigating a suspected murder-suicide after a man allegedly shot and killed a woman believed to be his grandmother and himself in Monterey Hills Wednesday afternoon. LAPD said officers responded around 3:45 p.m. to a home in the 3700 block of Oak Hill Avenue after they received a radio call about a person who claimed he shot his grandmother. LAPD Officer Mike Lopez said police tried to talk to the suspect, who then allegedly made threats he would shoot any officer who entered the home. A SWAT team was later called and entered the residence after an hours-long barricade. A man and woman were found dead, Lopez said. Police believe the man fatally shot his grandmother and then shot himself. A firearm was recovered, Lopez said. Ballistics investigators will look into whether the same gun was used in both shootings. The names of the man and woman were not immediately released, but the suspect was believed to be in his 30s and the woman in her 60s. LAPD is still investigating a motive. ABC 7 Convenience Store Clerk Fatally Stabs Man In Store A 7-Eleven convenience store clerk stabbed a man inside a Mid-Wilshire store Wednesday morning and the man later died at a hospital, police said. The clerk called police at 12:16 a.m. to report the stabbing at the 7- Eleven store at 5279 W. Olympic Blvd., according to Los Angeles Police Department Detective Meghan Aguilar. The 40-year-old man was stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife, Aguilar said. Paramedics took him to a hospital where he died sometime after 3 a.m.. The employee was taken into custody and interviews were underway to determine whether he would be booked for a crime, she said. The man’s name was not released pending notification of relatives. CBS 2 Man Wounded In Northridge Shooting A man was wounded Wednesday morning in a shooting at a Northridge home. The shooting was reported at 7:35 a.m. in the 17200 block of Devonshire Street, Los Angeles Police Department Detective Meghan Aguilar told City News Service. The wounded man was taken by paramedics to a hospital where his condition was not yet known, Aguilar said. Officers detained a suspect for questioning, she said. MyNewsLA.com Angela Kukawski, Business Manager To Kardashians Found Dead; Boyfriend Charged With Murder, Torture The boyfriend of a celebrity business manager found dead in her car last week has been charged in connection with the woman’s torture death, authorities said Wednesday. Angela Kukawski, 55, whose star-studded client roster included members of the Kardashian family, was reported missing Dec. 22 from the Sherman Oaks neighborhood where she lived, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The following day, police from Los Angeles and Simi Valley found Kukawski dead in her car, which was parked on Patricia Avenue in Simi Valley, the LAPD said in a news release. Kukawski’s boyfriend, 49-year-old Jason Barker, was arrested later that day on suspicion of murder and booked into Van Nuys Jail, where he’s being held in lieu of more than $3-million bail, according to inmate records. Detectives think Barker killed Kukawski inside their residence, put her in her car and drove to Simi Valley, where the vehicle was left. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has charged Barker with one count of premeditated murder and one count of torture, both felonies, according to a criminal complaint provided to The Times. Kukawski died from sharp and blunt force injuries of the head and neck, as well as strangulation, according to the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office. Los Angeles Times Police Seek Suspect In Overnight Vandalism Of Venice Clothing Store The Los Angeles Police Department is seeking a suspect who broke the windows of a clothing store, Corridor, located at 533 California Avenue. The shop manager said that the vandalism happened sometime overnight. Nothing was stolen and no one was hurt. The store is expected to be open sometime this afternoon. A similar incident happened not too far from the Corridor on December 18. Police say a male suspect smashed the windows of the Bank of America located on Windward Avenue with a hammer. Both incidents are under investigation. WestSide Current 2 Sought After French Bulldog Stolen, Owner Dragged In Hollywood Hills A $10,000 reward is being offered for the return of a French bulldog that was taken from its owner in the Hollywood Hills Tuesday evening. The 8-year-old dog named Luca was was stolen around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday from the area of North Wetherly Drive and Shoreham Drive, and authorities are looking for the two people involved, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. A man got out of the passenger side of a car, while the driver stayed inside. The man approached the victim and allegedly punched him in the back of the head, causing him to fall to the ground, police said. The assailant then grabbed the victim’s dog and got back into the black sedan. “The owner did try to maintain control of the dog and unfortunately he was dragged a distance,” an LAPD media relations official said. The thieves ended up getting away with the bulldog. The victim, Robert Marinelli, said the attack was something he’d “never expect to happen,” and in his attempt to get his dog back, something — perhaps a piece of his clothing — got caught in the car’s door. “They weren’t going to stop, and if I hadn’t finally broken loose, I’m sure they would’ve driven as long as it took to shake me off the car,” Marinelli said. One of the thieves is described as being a man in his early 20s who is about 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs about 165 pounds. He was wearing all black clothes with a red vest, police said. The second person is described only as being female. KTLA 5 Man Wounded In South Los Angeles Shooting A man was wounded Wednesday morning in a shooting in the Vermont Vista neighborhood of South Los Angeles. The shooting was reported about 10:45 a.m. at 94th Street and Vermont Avenue, according to Lt. C. McDaniel of the South Los Angeles Sheriff’s Station. The victim’s condition was not known, McDaniel said. A news videographer at the scene said a man was taken to a hospital by paramedics and that a car in a driveway appeared to be a focus of investigators. MyNewsLA.com SoCal Man Sentenced For Killing Woman During Political Argument Over 2016 Election A Southern California man who shot and killed a woman holding her 2-year-old son during an argument over the 2016 presidential election was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison. John Kevin McVoy Jr., 40, of Corona, received the maximum sentence Monday after being convicted of murder last month, the Long Beach Press-Telegram reported. McVoy was in a garage band with Victor Garcia. During practice on Jan. 10, 2017, the two got into an argument over politics at Garcia’s home in North Long Beach, prosecutors said. McVoy pulled a gun after he was teased for saying he had voted for Hillary Clinton and Garcia told him to leave, prosecutors said. McVoy shot and wounded Garcia and a second shot fatally struck Garcia’s wife, Susan Garcia, 33, as she held their child on her lap. The child wasn’t hurt. Garcia was shot in the head. He told the court on Monday that he was in a coma for months, underwent two brain surgeries and still has physical issues. FOX 11 Merced Man Arrested On Way To White House With Rifle, ‘Hit List’ Compiled From TikTok A California man was arrested last week in Iowa after telling police he was driving straight to the White House “to kill persons in power” and was found with an assault rifle and body armor, according to federal court records. Kuachua Brillion Xiong, 25, of Merced was pulled over for driving aggressively on Interstate 80 in Cass County, Iowa, on Dec. 21. He had an AR-15-type rifle, ammunition and a grappling hook, among other items, authorities said. He told a sheriff’s deputy that he disapproved of the government and President Biden and that he was traveling to Washington, D.C. He was carrying a “hit list” of targets saved from TikTok videos, according to a six-page criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Iowa and unsealed Wednesday. Authorities described Xiong’s vehicle as “lived in,” with several empty cans of Red Bull energy drink. Xiong agreed to let Cass County Sheriff’s Sgt. Tyler Shiels search his car and admitted he had a weapon and ammunition. Shiels found loaded magazines, boxes of ammunition, several items of body armor and medical kits, according to his report. Los Angeles Times CHP To Patrol For Impaired Drivers Over New Year’s Eve Weekend The California Highway Patrol will be out in full force beginning Friday cracking down on impaired drivers in Los Angeles County. The California Highway Patrol will begin its New Year’s “maximum enforcement period” starting at 6 p.m. Friday and continue through Sunday night. All available officers will be on the roads, looking for impaired motorists, speeders and other traffic violators. “Ringing in the New Year should be an exciting time filled with celebration and hope,” CHP Commissioner Amanda Ray said. “To help keep the roadways safe through the holiday and beyond, our officers will be out in force to deter, detect and remove impaired drivers.” Last New Year’s, CHP made 709 DUI arrests statewide. CBS 2 Colorado Officer Injured, Woman Killed After Stolen Car Crashes Into Police Cruiser A stolen vehicle slammed into a police car in Westminster early Wednesday, killing one woman and injuring three other people. Westminster police say they observed a vehicle traveling eastbound on 92nd Avenue with a blown-out tire and its hazard lights on at about 12:16 a.m. on Wednesday. Officials say that Westminster dispatch had previously advised officers that the same car was stolen and could be in the area. A police car failed to stop the stolen car and did not pursue, according to the Westminster Police Department. Police said the stolen vehicle then continued eastbound on 92nd Avenue at a high rate of speed and ran a red light at 92nd Avenue and Westminster Boulevard. At the intersection, the vehicle collided with a police vehicle going south on Westminster Boulevard. The officer and a civilian in the cruiser were injured and later released from the hospital with minor injuries. The driver and a passenger in the stolen vehicle were transported to the hospital. The female passenger was later pronounced dead, authorities say. The Jefferson County coroner's office has yet to release the woman's identity. Denver Post Illinois Deputy Found Shot To Death; Suspect In Custody An Illinois sheriff's deputy was shot and killed Wednesday morning, activating a bi-state manhunt for the suspect. According to Illinois State Police, the suspect, identified as 40-year-old Ray Tate, was taken into custody around 1:30 p.m. Wayne County (Ill.) Sheriff's Deputy Sean Riley was responding to a motorist assist around 5 a.m. on an interstate near the Indiana border when he was shot by Tate, KMOV.com reported. Riley was found dead when another officer arrived on scene. Riley's squad car was also missing, but was later found abandoned. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of our loved Deputy Sean Riley," the department wrote on Facebook. Tate was also connected to a shooting and carjacking at a QuikTrip gas station around 7 a.m. According to police, Tate drove away from the gas station after shooting another man while stealing his car. The shooting victim was taken to a hospital in stable condition, according to the report. Tate ditched the stolen vehicle off a highway and then stole a white pickup truck, police said. PoliceOne Bradley Police Sgt. Marlene Rittmanic Killed, Second Officer In Critical Condition After Hotel Shooting In Kankakee County A police officer is dead and a second officer is in critical condition after an altercation at a hotel in the Village of Bradley, Illinois, near Kankakee, on Wednesday night. Around 9:40 p.m., the officers responded to the Comfort Inn hotel, located at 1500 North State Route 50, after a call reporting dogs barking in an unattended vehicle in the parking lot. Police said the officers located the vehicle and the possible owner inside a hotel room. Both officers were shot after trying to talk with the people inside the room, Bradley police confirmed. CBS Chicago Deathbed Confession: Wanted Bank Robber Reveals True Identity 50 Years Later Just before Thomas Randele died, his wife of nearly 40 years asked his golfing buddies and his co-workers from the dealerships where he sold cars to come by their home. They gathered to say goodbye to a guy they called one of the nicest people they’d ever known — a devoted family man who gushed about his daughter, a golfer who never bent the rules, a friend to so many that a line stretched outside the funeral home a week later. By the time of their final visit last May at Randele’s house in suburban Boston, the cancer in his lungs had taken away his voice. So they all left without knowing that their friend they’d spent countless hours swapping stories with never told them his biggest secret of all. For the past 50 years, he was a fugitive wanted in one of the largest bank robberies in Cleveland’s history, living in Boston under a new name he created six months after the heist in the summer of 1969. Not even his wife or daughter knew until he told them in what authorities described as a deathbed confession. How he was able to leave behind one family and create a new life — while evading a father and son from the U.S. Marshals Service who never gave up their hunt — is just now being pieced together. FOX 11 Ghislaine Maxwell Convicted In Epstein Sex Abuse Case The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein’s palatial homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico. Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts. She faces the likelihood of years in prison — an outcome long sought by women who spent years fighting in civil courts to hold Maxwell accountable for her role in recruiting and grooming Epstein’s teenage victims and sometimes joining in the sexual abuse. The defense had insisted Maxwell was a victim of a vindictive prosecution devised to deliver justice to women deprived of their main villain when Epstein killed himself while awaiting trial in 2019. During the trial, prosecutors called 24 witnesses to give jurors a picture of life inside Epstein’s homes — a subject of public fascination and speculation ever since his 2006 arrest in Florida in a child sex case. CBS 2 Public Safety News Coronavirus: L.A. County Reported 16,510 New Cases And 182 More Hospitalizations, Dec. 29 Los Angeles County public health officials reported a staggering 16,510 new cases of the coronavirus since Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases to 1,649,376, as of Wednesday, Dec. 29. The total number of cases represents 16.4% of Los Angeles County’s population. Officials reported 25 more deaths linked to the coronavirus since Tuesday, for a total of 27,601 deaths since tracking began. The total number of deaths represents 0.27% of Los Angeles County’s population. There were 182 new hospitalizations reported since Tuesday, bringing the total count of people hospitalized with coronavirus to 1,251. According to the California Department of Public Health’s vaccines dashboard, 70% of Los Angeles County is fully vaccinated and more than 16,855,427 vaccine doses have been administered as of Dec. 28. Los Angeles Daily News L.A. County Reports 91% Increase In COVID Cases Over Past Week Los Angeles County reported more than 16,000 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, in one of the highest daily case counts of the pandemic. Reported cases have increased by 91% over the past week, jumping from 8,633 to 16,510 on Wednesday, according to the county’s Department of Public Health. Additionally, test positivity rates have more than doubled from 8.7% to 17.6%, and daily hospitalizations have jumped over 30%, from 770 to 1,069, the department said. As transmission of the delta and omicron variants surge, public health officials are urging residents to scale down New Year’s plans by limiting gatherings to a very small number of people, where everyone is fully vaccinated and boosted if eligible. Large, crowded events are just too risky this holiday, the department said. “As we get ready to welcome the new year, this includes re-thinking party plans, limiting time indoors with non-household members, and isolating from others if feeling sick,” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said. KTLA 5 Los Angeles County's COVID-19 Hospitalizations Top 1,000 As Cases Surge For the first time since late September, the number of people in Los Angeles County hospitals with COVID-19 surpassed the 1,000 mark Tuesday, echoing a sharp upward trend in infections and a dramatic increase in the rate of people testing positive for the virus. According to state figures, there were 1,069 COVID-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals as of Tuesday, up from 966 on Monday. Of those patients, 207 were being treated in intensive care, up from 200 a day earlier. The increase is being closely watched by public health officials concerned that hospitals -- which expanded capacity to handle COVID patient numbers that topped 8,000 last January -- are less equipped to cope with such an intense surge this winter due to various factors, most notably a drop in staffing. The L.A. County increase in COVID hospitalizations has been rapid, jumping by 30% over the past week. One month ago, on Nov. 27, the state reported just 568 virus patients in the county. Also rapidly rising is the rate of people testing positive for the virus. NBC 4 Warnings Issued For LA County Burn Areas; State Resources In Position Los Angeles County Public Works issued its own winter storm warning Wednesday to people in burn areas, with the potential for heavy rain looming in Southern California. In addition, the California Office of Emergency Services said it has already positioned people and equipment near burn scars in L.A. and Orange counties. “Peak rainfall rates are expected to be up to 0.75 inch per hour,” the Public Works advisory said. “County agencies are working in unified command to advise residents on how to prepare for this storm event and potentially evacuate 56 households at greatest risk in the Bobcat Fire (San Gabriel Valley) and Lake Fire (north County) burn areas.” The Bobcat Fire from September to October 2020 burned 115,796 acres in the Angeles National Forest, the city of Monrovia, Juniper Hills, Littlerock, Pearblossom, Llano and Valyermo. The fire damaged or destroyed 194 structures Officials are also concerned about the area of Lake Fire of August 2020, which burned 31,089 acres in the Lake Hughes area and damaged or destroyed 45 structures. 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