Alhmond Sherrick Ugene "Juice" Davis, a 27-year-old black man, was fatally shot on Monday, Aug. 20, in the 900 block of West Beach Avenue in Inglewood, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.
Davis was standing in front of the apartment complex where he lived, talking with two male friends who were visiting from out of town, according to Inglewood Police Capt. Mark Fried.
"He had just come from a job interview, and was dressed very nicely," Fried said. "It was all very innocent. He and his friends were just having a conversation, like any of us would outside our homes."
Then, around 5:25 p.m., a vehicle drove by and someone inside began shooting, Fried said.
Davis and his friends were taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds. The two friends survived their injuries but Davis was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m., according to coroner's records. The cause of death …
Alfonzo Troy Gordon, a 52-year-old black male, died Sunday, Aug. 19, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Vermont Vista, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.
Michael Gregory Harrison, a 30-year-old white male, died Saturday, Aug. 18, after being shot in Culver City, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.
Antonio D. Brown a 18-year-old black man, died Saturday, Aug. 18, after he was shot in the 1000 block of West 46th Street in Vermont Square, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.
The day before, about 11:50 p.m., Brown got into a dispute with another person in the backyard of a home, said Los Angeles police Det. Chris Barling.
At one point, a man identified by police as Darien Percy Simmons, a 23-year-old black man, pulled out a gun and shot Brown, Barling said.
Brown was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:18 a.m., according to coroner’s records.
Simmons has been charged with one count of murder, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
Simmons is due in court Oct. 31 for an arraignment.
Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at (323) 786-5113. Those who wish to remain anonymous can call …
Samuel Isaac Ferguson, a 27-year-old black man, was fatally shot on Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, in the westbound lane of the 91 Freeway near the Artesia Boulevard exit in Gardena, according to California Highway Patrol investigators.
Prosecutors are calling Ferguson's shooting a hate crime, committed because of his race, along with three other shootings between Aug. 17 and 23 last year that killed a second man and injured three in the Inglewood area.
All of the victims were black, according to Ricardo Santiago, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. The accused shooter, Daniel Martinez, a 30-year-old gang member from Inglewood, is Latino.
Ferguson, a speech pathology student at Cerritos College, was driving home about 4:25 p.m. when he was shot on the freeway, said Lt. Laura Hill.
Investigators have not released many details about the shooting except to say that Ferguson was alone in his car …
Garry “Twin” Dorton tried to keep young people in South Los Angeles from making the same mistakes he did when he was an active gang member.
He helped them get jobs and stay out of trouble. After a killing, he talked them out of retaliating. He led his neighborhood in a softball league that aimed to build peace among Crips gang members.
But mediating disputes between gangs can be dangerous work.
On July 1, Dorton was fatally shot outside a friend’s house on the 4500 block of South Van Ness Avenue. The peacemaker had become a target.
Los Angeles police on Wednesday announced the arrest of three men in their teens and early 20s — the very group that Dorton, 48, devoted his life to saving — in connection with his death.
The suspects, who were arrested between July 13 and Aug. 13, are Brandon Dixon, 22; Dejone Wright, 20; …
Pedro Zamora, a 53-year-old Latino, was pronounced dead on Thursday, Aug. 16, after being found with a head wound near the corner of Atlantic Avenue and South Street in Long Beach, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records. The coroner listed his cause of death as blunt trauma to the head and ruled it a homicide.
Long Beach police officers were called to the area about 8:45 p.m. regarding a man down, according to a department news release and coroner’s records.
Zamora, who is homeless, was found lying in a vacant lot, according to coroner's records. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:53 p.m.
Investigators don’t have any suspect information, according to the department news release.
Anyone with information is asked to call Long Beach Police investigators Todd Johnson and Donald Collier at (562) 570-7244. Those wishing to remain anonymous should call Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-8477.
There were so many family milestones coming up in Tauvaaga Lauvai's life. The 53-year-old who went by the name Judy was planning the weddings of two sons, her youngest boy was soon to graduate from college and she couldn't wait to help her only grandchild buy a backpack and lunchbox for her first day of school, her husband said.
But those plans came to a terrifying and chaotic end on June 16. That evening, she was gunned down outside her in-laws’ Carson home as the family held an early Father’s Day celebration. Family was always her first priority, said her husband, Ray Lauvai, apologizing repeatedly for his tears at a news conference Aug. 10.
The family had gathered for dessert on the front porch when a shooter in a light-colored four-door sedan sprayed gunfire at the home in the 22700 block of Island Avenue.
A 27-year-old relative was shot in the leg and …
Anthony Daniel Vargas, a 21-year-old Latino, was shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies on Sunday, Aug. 12, in the 4900 block of East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue in East Los Angeles, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.
A man reported around 2 a.m. that his watch had been stolen by three Latinos in their 30s, one with a gun tucked in his waistband, on North Mednik Avenue near the Nueva Maravilla Housing Community.
Deputies tried to detain Vargas while searching for the robbery suspects in the 504-unit housing complex, according to Lt. Derrick Alfred. Vargas ran and hid from deputies, ignored their orders and resisted their attempts to handcuff him before he pulled a gun from his waistband, Alfred said.
“They engage in a violent struggle, and when [the deputies] are reaching around to get hold of his hands, one feels a gun in his waistband,” Alfred said. “He [Vargas] …
Robert Salinas Jr., a 37-year-old Latino, was fatally shot on Sunday, Aug. 12, in the 100 block of East First Street in Pomona, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.
Pomona police officers were called to the east end of the train platform at Pomona Station around 4:30 a.m. regarding two men lying unresponsive on the platform, said Pomona Police Sgt. Brian Hagerty. A homeless man had spotted the bodies and went to a nearby business for help, he said.
The officers found two homeless men, Salinas and Jeremy Alexander Henness, a 31-year-old white man, with multiple gunshot wounds, Hagerty said.
Both men were pronounced dead at the scene at 4:44 a.m., according to coroner’s records.
While investigators were at the scene, they got a call from the Ontario Police Department shortly after 5 a.m., saying they had a man on the line who “thinks he may have been involved in a …
Jeremy Alexander Henness, a 31-year-old white man, was fatally shot Sunday, Aug. 12, in the 100 block of East First Street in Pomona, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.
Pomona Police officers were called to the east edge of the train platform at Pomona Station about 4:30 a.m. regarding two men lying unresponsive on the platform, said Pomona Police Sgt. Brian Hagerty. A homeless man had spotted the bodies and went to a nearby business for help, he said.
The officers found two homeless men, Henness, and Robert Salinas, a 37-year-old Latino, with multiple gunshot wounds, Hagerty said.
Both men were pronounced dead at the scene at 4:44 a.m., according to coroner’s records.
While investigators were at the scene, they got a call from the Ontario Police Department shortly after 5 a.m., saying they had a man on the line who “thinks he may have been involved in a …