January Violent Crimes, in the News
Monday by: DoreenLA Now reported on on January 5 about a story that left an 18 year old hospitalized with gunshot wounds. He claimed that two men shot him from a passing car. He wasn’t especially 
cooperating with the police making it impossible to tell if he had in fact been able to identify the shooter or the passenger in the vehicle. On the same day, a school bus had some windows shot out by someone with a BB gun. The fact that it was a BB gun and shooting at a school bus could have longer term ramifications even though there were no serious injuries.
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A Los Angeles man is facing possible death sentencing for two murders that occurred in December. One of the deaths was a stray bullet that was intended for the person that the suspect was arguing with – the woman was sitting in her car outside her mothers home at the time of the shooting and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
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A suspect was arrested in connection with two homicides by knife. The suspect was believed to be washing his hands of blood and two men were found inside the home with multiple stab wounds. Both men are now deceased, one was dead at the scene while another succumbed later at the hospital from injuries sustained in the knifing incident.
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A fifteen year old was arrested carrying a weapon on public transportation and will be charged by the juvenile crimes division. The gun had no serial number and it was not loaded. At the time of the arrest the police were trying to determine where the juvenile obtained the weapon and why he was carrying it.
