Lynn Wright- Matthews, a 58-year-old white female, died Friday, May 18, after sustaining blunt force trauma near 8505 Foothill Blvd. in Sunland, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner's records.

Anthony David Soderberg, a 29-year-old white man, was shot and killed by LAPD officers Monday, May 8, in the 11300 block of Alethea Drive in Sunland, according to Los Angeles County coroner’s records.

About 9 a.m., a homeowner reported a burglar in her kitchen, Los Angeles Police Det. Meghan Aguilar said. The resident was able to escape through a back window, she said.

When officers arrived, they peered through a window of the house and saw that a man, later identified as Soderberg, had armed himself with a gun belonging to one of the residence’s occupants, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said.

The officers then backed off and called for a SWAT team, Beck said, launching a standoff that lasted five hours.

As officers surrounded the house, police used a bullhorn to try to persuade the man to surrender, department officials said.

The home, located at the top of a hill and …

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Michael Lee Roberts, a 50-year-old white man died at a hospital Thursday, Jan. 23, after being run over by his wife in an SUV in Sunland, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Roberts and his wife, Mary Meyer, had an ongoing dispute about a real estate property that they shared, said LAPD Det. Anthony Stephenson. On Jan. 5, Roberts was standing in front of a chain link fence leading into the driveway of their residence when Meyer knocked down the fence with her SUV, pinning him under the fence, then drove over him, Stephenson said.

Meyer then crashed into a car further up the driveway and backed up into the fence again, he said. She reversed and ran over him again before parking the vehicle on the street. 

Roberts was taken to the hospital where he was diagnosed with severe head trauma and was pronounced dead, according to coroner's …

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Ryan Reese, a 26-year-old white man, was shot and killed Friday, March 18, while allegedly robbing a McDonald's restaurant in the 7900 block of Foothill Boulevard in Sunland, according to authorities.

Reese, who Los Angeles police said was armed, was shot by a retired Burbank police officer.

Officer Greg Baek of the Los Angeles Police Department said the shooting occurred about 10:47 a.m. when Reese walked into the restaurant and attempted to rob the clerks at gunpoint.

The retired Burbank officer then fatally shot the robber, Baek said.

Los Angeles police detectives were investigating.

-- Richard Winton

Mike Elroy Coffey, a 34-year-old white male, died Thursday, Sept. 3, after sustaining blunt force trauma in Sunland, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

Jae Oh, a 38-year-old man of Korean descent, was struck on the head at 7851 Hillrose St. in Sunland, and died at 7:46 a.m. July 27.

An acupuncturist with a business in Burbank, Oh left his house in this quiet, residential neighborhood that morning to go to work, said Det. Pat Barron of LAPD Foothill Homicide. He got in his car, started it, but then was somehow pulled, lured or forced out. His assailant hit him on the head with what Barron described only as "a hard object." Nothing was taken, neither money nor valuables. A neighbor found him lying dead with blunt-force trauma injuries. His wife, children and other family members were inside the house, and came out to find him dead.