Tag: Los Angeles

“The victim, only identified as an approximately 44-year-old white man, was meditating just after 3:20 a.m. in the 6300 block of Hollywood Boulevard, according to Los Angeles Police. That’s when another man walked up to him and opened fire, striking him at least once, police said….
No suspect description has been released.”

“Residents of Watts, a predominantly Latino and black neighborhood in south-central Los Angeles, are being discouraged from attending large gatherings for the rest of 2023 due to the recent surge of drive-by and mass shootings in the area.”

“In early August of last year, after a fugitive violently thrust Pena from his shop and barricaded himself inside, a SWAT team from the City of Los Angeles fired more than 30 rounds of tear gas canisters over the course of 13 hours. When the government entered the building, the officers found their target had escaped….The government refused his requests for compensation, strapping him with expenses that exceed $60,000.”

“Rapper/actor 50 Cent (real name: Curtis Jackson) said on Instagram that Los Angeles is ‘finished’ now that they’ve instituted a zero-bail policy that took effect in May.”