Javonie Daniel Alacantara, 30
Javonie Daniel Alacantara, a 30-year-old Latino male, died Monday, Sept. 2, after being shot in South Gate, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.
Javonie Daniel Alacantara, a 30-year-old Latino male, died Monday, Sept. 2, after being shot in South Gate, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.
Martin Carlos Jr., a 35-year-old Latino, was pronounced dead on Monday, Aug. 12, after he was shot on the Los Angeles River West Bike Route, north of the Imperial Highway, in South Gate, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner records.
Firefighters were called to the scene around 4:40 p.m. regarding a body on the bike path between Imperial Highway and Firestone Boulevard, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Sgt. Richard Biddle said.
Carlos' body was found on the path just north of Imperial Highway, Biddle said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:25 p.m., according to coroner's records. The cause of death was listed as a gunshot wound to the head.
Biddle said it appeared Carlos lived in a tent along the riverbed and had probably been shot several hours before he was found.
"We don't know if he was walking when he was shot but his tent, or …
Selena Elsie Aleman, a 5-month-old Latina, was pronounced dead on Wednesday, Feb. 23, in the 8000 block of California Avenue in South Gate, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff's homicide investigators.
South Gate Police officers were called to Selena's home around 4:47 a.m. regarding a call about a baby not breathing, said sheriff's Lt. Derrick Alfred.
Her parents told investigators they put the baby to bed around 11 p.m. and when they woke up to get ready for work they noticed she wasn't breathing, Alfred said.
Sheriff's Homicide Bureau investigators were asked to take over the investigation on Feb. 27, when the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's office declared Selena's death a homicide caused by traumatic injury, Alfred said.
On Thursday, March 7, Selena's father, Jose Francisco Aleman, 22, was arrested on suspicion of murder and assault of a child. He was formally charged March 11 with murder and one …
Raul Vargas Castro, a 52-year-old Latino, was pronounced dead from a fatal shooting on Jan. 30 next to the Los Angeles River, north of the intersection of Tweedy Boulevard and Burtis Road in South Gate, according to Los Angeles County medical examiner-coroner records.
A construction worker called the South Gate Police Department that morning to report a body that was face down in the river, said Lt. Edward Perez.
At first it appeared his body had been anchored to the site since it wasn't moving in the swift water, Perez said, but investigators discovered that it had caught on some debris in the river.
Castro was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:30 a.m., according to coroner's records. The cause of death was listed as multiple gunshot wounds.
The case was turned over to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide Bureau, which investigates homicides for South Gate.
Sheriff's Lt. Derrick …