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Council member wants to look at removing guns from LAPD officers at council meetings

Los Angeles Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez called Wednesday for the city’s policy analysts to determine whether the council has the power to require that every police officer assigned to the council chamber show up unarmed. In a statement, the Los Angeles Police Protective League board of directors pointed to shootings that have taken place at council meetings in other parts of the country, including one in Kirkwood, Mo., in 2008 and another in New Hope, Minn., in 2015. The union blasted it as “irresponsible,” warning it will “invite harm toward public officials and those that attend City Council meetings.” “There are serious issues Los Angeles is confronted with and we need serious people with credible solutions, not this type of dangerous nonsense,” the union said.

Los Angeles Times

One Person Dead, Another Injured After Shooting At Shopping Center In Valley Glen

Two people were shot, one of them is dead and another is critically injured in Valley Glen Wednesday. No one has been arrested in the connection to a shooting at a popular shopping center in Valley Glen with a gym, grocery store and several places to eat. For the second time in the past few months there was a crime scene after a shooting left one person dead. LAPD officers and paramedics rushed to the Valley Plaza Shopping Center around 3:40 p.m. "It was reported that numerous shots were fired," said Detective David Peteque, from the LAPD Homicide Bureau. The deadly shooting outside the pizzeria and hookah lounge involved two groups of people. "The information that we have is that they stepped outside and they were approached and gunfire erupted between both parties," Peteque said. One person died and another was rushed to a local hospital after officers found a bystander treating him for his injuries at a nearby business. "Not until a bystander came by and advised the officers that he was in that location, the officers at that point went and located him and then called the ambulance," Peteque said. This is the second time in a few months that the LAPD's responded to this same location due to gun violence.

NBC 4

David Lacey Estate Lawyers Seek BLM Member’s Teaching Curriculum Info

Attorneys for the estate of the late husband of former Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey are fighting an attempt by a Black Lives Matter demonstrator to block their attempts to get information on her Cal State Los Angeles teaching curriculum. In court papers filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, lawyers for the estate of David Lacey maintain that the motion by Melina Abdullah’s attorneys to quash the subpoena for information on privacy grounds is both “procedurally defective and substantively without merit.” Abdullah is a co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and a professor of Pan-African Studies at CSULA, where she teaches courses, among other things, on power relations in Black communities and provoking change through aggressive behaviors, according to the David Lacey estate attorneys’ court papers. For several years, protesters, including BLM members, gathered sometimes in the hundreds outside the Hall of Justice, where Lacey’s office was located, every Wednesday to protest what they believed was an insufficient number of criminal cases brought against police officers who killed civilians. They came with signs, noise-amplifiers and drums and chanted slogans such as, “Bye, Jackie” and “Jackie Lacey Must Go.”

Spectrum News

Body Found In Hollywood Film School Parking Garage

A body was found in the Los Angeles Film School’s parking garage in Hollywood, and police believe it may be a fatal hit-and-run. Police responded at about 2 a.m. Thursday, and the body was found in the 6300 block of Sunset Boulevard next to a gray 2020 Nissan Kicks. The vehicle had suffered external damage and had deployed its airbags, which may indicate that the driver fled after a hit-and-run, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The investigation is ongoing, and no information about the victim has been released.

KTLA 5

Stabbing Near Downtown L.A. Metro Station Sparks Chaos As Person In Handcuffs Flees Police

One person was rushed to a hospital with a stab wound as a potential suspect fled from police after being handcuffed during a chaotic scene in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday evening. Police responded to reports of a stabbing near the intersection of 7th and Flower streets in downtown L.A. around 5:40 p.m., according to Officer Melissa Podany, an LAPD spokeswoman. The victim was “conscious and breathing” when taken to a hospital, according to Podany, who said investigators quickly made a request to shut down B Line trains, fearing suspects may have fled into the nearby 7th Street/Metro Center station. Trains were not shut down, according to a spokesman for L.A. Metro, but an entrance to the station was shuttered for about 30 minutes. Police, meanwhile, sought to close an alley near Wilshire Boulevard and Lebanon Street while searching for suspects, Podany said. Police radio traffic initially described as many as seven suspects, according to a law enforcement source who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the “fluid situation.” At least one person who was handcuffed and detained as a person of interest managed to escape from officers, the source said.

Los Angeles Times

$25,000 Reward On Tap For Information Leading To Hit-and-Run Suspect

Police and other officials Thursday will announce a $25,000 reward for information about a November hit-and-run in the Westlake area that left a man in a coma. The reward comes as the Los Angeles Police Department asks for the public’s help in the case of Luis Varela, who suffered severe injuries about 7 p.m. on Nov. 11 as he was crossing Wilshire Boulevard at Park View Street and was struck by a vehicle that did not stop. Varela sustained severe head trauma and was admitted into the intensive care unit at a hospital, where he remains in a coma, police said. On Thursday, members of the Varela family plan to join detectives and Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez’s office to formally announce the reward for any information leading to the identity, arrest and conviction of the driver. Anyone with information regarding the incident was encouraged to contact Det. Juan Campos at 213-486-0755 or by email at [email protected].

MyNewsLA

Rebecca Grossman, Accused In Deadly Westlake Village DUI Crash, To Appear In Court In March

The latest court hearing for Rebecca Grossman, the Hidden Hills socialite charged with murder in connection with the deadly DUI crash in Westlake Village that killed two brothers, has been postponed to March 6. A family spokesperson told FOX 11 the pretrial hearing was postponed after the defense failed to turn in several pieces of discovery Tuesday. Grossman, co-founder of the Grossman Burn Foundation and the wife of Dr. Peter Grossman, who is the director of the Grossman Burn Center in West Hills and son of the center's late founder, lost her motion to the Supreme Court last month to have the murder charges against her dismissed. Grossman was ordered in May to stand trial on murder and other charges stemming from the September 2020 deaths of 11-year-old Mark Iskander and his 8-year-old brother, Jacob. Data from the "black box" in Grossman's white SUV indicated she was traveling at 73 mph five seconds before the collision, up to 81 mph at two seconds before the collision and then 73 mph at the time of the collision, according to the prosecutor's filing.

FOX 11

Studio City Pizzeria On Ventura Burglarized In Early Thursday Break-In

Los Angeles police officers responded to a reported smash-and-grab burglary at a pizza restaurant in Studio City early Thursday morning. An alarm company alerted police to the break-in at OVE Pizzeria, located at 12616 Ventura Blvd. between Coldwater Canyon and Whitsett avenues, at about 4:30 a.m. Responding officers found the front glass door completely smashed. It was unclear what was taken, but empty cash register drawers could be seen on a table near the door. Officers were guarding the store waiting for the owner to arrive. A security camera is installed over the store's front entrance.

CBS 2

Mother Pleads For Public's Help In Finding Son's Killer

Detectives in Compton are looking for new clues to help solve the murder of a young man that took place in October. The murder took place on a busy street in Willowbrook in the middle of the night. Investigators hope the time that's passed will help someone come forward with information about who is responsible. A grieving mother is still dealing with pain she says leads her to sleepless nights that have tormented her every night since the night her son was shot to death. "My brother was a loving son, a loving uncle, wasn't into gangs and wasn't into drugs," said Vanessa Flores, Christian Flores-Padilla's sister. The 25-year-old died on the pavement outside a small market store on El Segundo Blvd. the night of October 14, 2022. His family says he had been celebrating with them at his mom's house earlier in the evening and left to take a walk. LA Sheriff Homicide Detectives say surveillance video shows a group of six people approach and one fired a shot.

NBC 4

Alabama Man In Body Armor Arrested After Allegedly Trying To Point Gun At Sheriff’s Deputy

A man clad in body armor was reportedly arrested on gun and other charges after authorities said he attempted to point a firearm at a Mobile County sheriff’s deputy. Following the incident, the sheriff’s office reportedly found nine guns, more than 1,400 rounds of ammunition, several magazines and two Glock switches in Nathan Trehern’s vehicle and home, WKRG reported Wednesday. The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office could not be reached to confirm the report. Trehern, 21, was charged with attempting to elude, resisting arrest and several gun charges, the outlet reported. The incident unfolded when the sheriff’s deputy was near Military Road and Dauphin Island Parkway on the lookout for a kidnapping suspect believed to be driving a black Nissan Maxima. Trehern, who was not the suspect the deputy was looking for, was driving a vehicle matching that description. When the deputy began following Trehern’s vehicle, the car began speeding before Trehern crashed the vehicle into a ditch, WKRG reported. Trehern then began fleeing the scene foot when the deputy chased the 21-year-old man and attempted to Tase him but the stun gun was ineffective.

PoliceOne

Video: Troopers Save Missing 4-Year-Old After Non-Custodial Dad Drives Her To Ohio

More details have emerged about the alleged kidnapping Monday of a 4-year-old Marysville girl by her non-custodial father. Lilliana Nardini was found Tuesday and her father, Erik Nardini, was taken into custody in Ohio, officials said. Video footage shared on Facebook shows three patrol cars surrounding a car as it pulls over. After the driver gets out of the car a patrol officer assures Lilliana, "It's OK. I got you, sweetie." When the officer asks if she's hurt, an emotional Lilliana tells him, "We saw you coming and I was scared." Port Huron police officials, who worked with Marysville police and the Michigan State Police, said Wednesday in a post on the department's Facebook page that the girl was last seen at about 10:30 p.m. Monday at a Burger King on Gratiot Avenue near Range Road before she went missing. An unidentified person dropped her off at the fast food restaurant, police said. They also said they believed she was with her father. Investigators said Nardini had been served recently with a court order requiring him to turn the girl over to her mother. They said he allegedly told the girl's mother that she would never see the child again.

Detroit News

Louisiana Mom Fatally Shoots Alleged Intruder While Home With Her 2 Children

A Louisiana mother protecting her children shot and killed a home intruder just before dawn Sunday, authorities said. KTLA’s sister station KLFY reports. The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said Robert Rheams, 51, “was armed with a shovel and a lug wrench” when he allegedly forced his way into the home of the woman and her two young children. Chief Jimmy Travis said a physical altercation took place between Rheams and the homeowner sometime during the incident, which led to Rheams being shot and killed. Rheams was pronounced dead at the scene. At the time of the incident, Rheams was out on parole after serving approximately 20 years in prison for armed robbery, according to a Facebook post shared by the sheriff’s office. He was also tied to a carjacking that happened hours prior to the home invasion, Chief Travis said.

KTLA 5

LA County Reports 2,600 More COVID-19 Cases

More than 2,600 new COVID-19 infections were reported in Los Angeles County, along with 30 new virus-related deaths in its latest data. The number of COVID-positive patients in county hospitals rose slightly to 1,128 as of Wednesday, up from 1,101 on Tuesday, according to state figures. Of those patients, 139 were being treated in intensive care units, up slightly from 136 the previous day. County health officials have said that roughly 40% of COVID-positive patients were admitted to hospitals specifically for virus-related reasons, while the rest were admitted for other issues and tested positive upon admission. The 2,616 new COVID cases lifted the county’s cumulative total from throughout the pandemic to 3,656,051. Official case numbers are believed to be undercounts of actual virus infections in the county due to the number of people who rely on at-home tests without reporting the results to the county, and the people who don’t test at all.

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