Ezell Ford’s Family Takes Wrongful Death Suit To State Court
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Relatives of a man shot and killed by police in South L.A. have filed a new wrongful death lawsuit in state court. » Complete Coverage: Ezell Ford Ezell Ford’s parents allege...
View ArticleMan, 18, Charged With Murdering Stepfather’s Girlfriend In Case Of Mistaken...
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — An 18-year-old man was charged Monday with murdering his stepfather’s girlfriend after mistaking her for a woman he thought had been in a fight with his mother,...
View ArticleSource: LAPD May Find 2 Officers Were Justified In Fatal Shooting Of Ezell Ford
http://media.losangeles.cbslocal.com/CBSLA_20150606025244017AA.mp4 LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A source tells KNX 1070’s Claudia Peschiutta that the LAPD has determined the two officers involved in last...
View ArticleNew Developments In Ezell Ford Investigation Trigger South LA Protest
http://media.losangeles.cbslocal.com/CBSLA_0606201522492941041AA.mp4 SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — New developments in the Ezell Ford shooting investigation triggered a protest Saturday in South...
View ArticleStudents Feel The Love After Singing Rendition Of ‘The Lion King’
http://media.losangeles.cbslocal.com/CBSLA_20150612222150910AA.mp4 SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Under a bridge in South L.A., in a reclaimed mortuary, is a small charter school that’s coming alive...
View ArticleLAPD Requests Assistance To Replace Boy’s Orthopedic Leg Braces Stolen In Car...
http://media.losangeles.cbslocal.com/CBSLA_1706201517543196976AA.mp4 LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Los Angeles Police Department personnel are mobilizing to replace a 9-year-old boy’s leg braces, which...
View ArticleFatal Shooting That Killed 2 In South LA Believed To Be Gang-Related
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Police say two people were shot dead Sunday morning in the Athens area of South Los Angeles. Officers were called to the 13000 block of Broadway Avenue near West 130th...
View ArticleMan Shot In Butt During Reported Road Rage Argument
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Police say a man was shot in the butt early Monday during a car-to-car shooting in South Los Angeles. It happened around midnight when two men got into a road rage...
View ArticleFather Taken Into Custody On Suspicion Of Stabbing 3 Young Sons To Death In...
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Police on Wednesday took into custody the father of three young boys who were found stabbed to death inside an SUV in South Los Angeles on suspicion of murdering the...
View ArticleHoping To Solve South LA Cold Case Murder, Police Release Video Of Suspects’...
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Hoping to identify two suspects sought in connection with a cold case murder, detectives are releasing surveillance video of the getaway car believed to be used by the...
View ArticleParking Attendant Scores Big On Powerball Ticket
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — A young man said he is usually not thrilled about helping is father run errands. But Jorge Solis-Cortes was sure glad he did almost two weeks ago in South Los Angeles....
View ArticleFormer Football Players Charged With Robberies Plead Not Guilty
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Two former college football players have been charged with a series of robberies in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Former USC tight end Bryce Dixon and former Louisiana...
View ArticleBalloons Blamed For Triggering Power Outage In South L.A.
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Wayward balloons are blamed for triggering a power outage Monday, leaving more than 5,000 Southern California Edison customers in South Los Angeles without electricity....
View ArticlePolice Investigate Case Of Possible Deadly Road Rage In South L.A.
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Police are investigating a case of possible road rage that left a man dead in South Los Angeles on Thursday. A silver SUV was approaching the intersection of Raymond...
View ArticleSome South LA Residents Fed Up With Piles Of Trash Strewn All Over Their...
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Some South Los Angeles residents said they are fed up with the growing piles of trash that litters their neighborhood. Ashley Allen documented on Facebook the garbage...
View ArticleCommunity Sets New Course For South LA’s ‘Death Alley’
SOUTH L.A. (CBSLA.com) — Part of South L.A.’s infamous “Death Alley” is getting new life. Statistics show the two-mile stretch off Vermont Avenue has been the site of dozens of killings over the last...
View ArticleNot Finding Them Funny, LAPD Cracks Down On Paintball Gun ‘Pranks’
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) – Police in Los Angeles are becoming increasingly concerned about paintball gun shootings in the city, especially in the area of South L.A. The LAPD says there have been more...
View ArticleAccused Getaway Driver In South LA Murder Doing Home-Study In Palos Verdes...
Cameron Terrell of Palos Verdes Estates is accused of being the getaway driver in the murder of Justin Holmes in South L.A. PALOS VERDES ESTATES (CBSLA) — A Palos Verdes High School student who was...
View ArticleClaiming ICE Detained Him Because Of ‘Latino Appearance,’ ACLU Files Motion...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A prominent civil rights group has taken legal action against federal immigration authorities, in the case of what they say was an unlawful, warrantless arrest at an auto repair...
View ArticleAfter Busting Donuts, Serving Time And Brush With Death, Driver In Bizarre LA...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — It was one of the wildest and most dangerous pursuits ever to hit the streets of Los Angeles, and nearly two years later, the man who gained infamy from all the commotion is...
View ArticleWife Of LA Restaurateur Killed In Hit-And-Run Pleads For Driver To Come...
Police released video of a hit-and-run accident that killed Bruno Commereuc on Jan. 15, 2018. LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Los Angeles Police Department on Friday released footage of a hit-and-run that...
View ArticleVideo Shows Brave, South LA Grandma Protecting Her Mini-Market From Armed Robber
Video from Socorro Ordello’s store showing her fighting off a would-be robber. SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A brazen, would-be robber was taken by surprise by an even braver South L.A. woman who stood...
View ArticleMan Rescued From Manhole In South LA
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A worker was rescued from a manhole in South Los Angeles Thursday. Emergency crews responded to the scene at 77th St. and Van Ness shortly after 4 p.m. SKY9’s Stu Mundel...
View ArticleSouth LA Mechanic Arrested In Unlawful ICE Raid Caught On Video Won’t Be...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A South L.A. auto mechanic whose arrest by immigration agents was caught by security cameras last year will not be deported, the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday. Video...
View ArticleVigil Held For Beaten LA Street Vendor, Highlighting Demand For Vending...
Pedro Reyes’s GoFundMe page. (SOURCE: GoFundMe) LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The street vending community of Los Angeles came together to hold a vigil Wednesday for a seller who was brutally beaten recently,...
View ArticleCyclists Ride In South LA For Safer Streets And To Honor Frederick ‘Woon’...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — More than 100 cyclists hit the streets of Los Angeles Friday, honoring the life of a member of the riding community whose life was cut much too short by a hit-and-run driver....
View Article‘You’re A Murderer:’ Mother Pleads For Justice In Son’s Fatal Hit-And-Run
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Police are asking for the public’s help identifying the suspects involved in two hit-and-run crashes in South Los Angeles this month, including one that killed a cyclist. Police...
View ArticlePolice Identify Another Cyclist Killed In South LA Hit-And-Run
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Los Angeles police have identified yet another victim of a deadly hit-and-run in South L.A. this week, the latest in a spate of similar accidents in the region. Christopher White,...
View ArticleUSC Celebrates South LA High School Scholars With Neighborhood Academic...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Fifty high school students from South L.A. have earned a full-ride to USC thanks to the school’s Neighborhood Academic Initiative (NAI) program. The seven-year pre-college program...
View ArticlePolice Seeking Men Who Fled Scene Of Fatal 2-Car Crash In Third Vehicle
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Police are asking for the public’s help in finding a man who caused a fatal two-car crash in South L.A. Saturday. A 34-year-old woman from Beverly Hills was killed at the...
View ArticleWoman Arrested At Gunpoint On Video Part Of Trio Suspected In Kidnapping Of...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA/CBS News) — Three suspects were charged Tuesday with kidnapping two people from a Los Angeles home and holding one of them naked in a bathtub for 30 hours while demanding the other...
View ArticleSouth LA Residents Rally For New Gun Laws, End Of Violence
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Residents in South L.A. who are tired of gun violence on their streets teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Dept. and the L.A. County Sheriff to help remember some of their...
View ArticleSuspects Pistol-Whip Worker During South LA Taco Truck Holdup
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – Police are looking for three men who forced their way into a taco truck in South Los Angeles and pistol-whipped an employee during a robbery last month. (Los Angeles Police...
View ArticlePolice Arrest Speeding Driver In South LA After Wild On-Again Off-Again Chase...
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A driver initially wanted for speeding in the San Fernando Valley led police in several jurisdictions on a wild pursuit all over Los Angeles County Tuesday night. The...
View ArticleRoad Rage Shooting Suspect Arrested After Hours-Long Barricade In South LA
SOUTH LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A shooting suspect who barricaded himself for hours inside a South Los Angeles truck driving school has been arrested. LAPD SWAT responded to a barricade situation in the...
View Article1 Dead, 2 Children Injured In South LA Car Crash
SOUTH L.A. (CBSLA) — A woman is dead and two children are in critical condition after their car collided with another vehicle in South L.A. Friday night. The crash happened at Colden Avenue and...
View ArticleSouth LA Pop-Up Clinic Helps Workers Get Vaccinated Against COVID
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — There was a big step taken Friday afternoon in the effort to get more South Los Angeles residents vaccinated against COVID-19. A pop-up vaccine clinic offered nearly 400 vaccines...
View ArticleShane Zachary Flowers Charged In Death Of 18-Month-Old Son Found At South LA...
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A man accused in the death of his son, who was found unresponsive at a South Los Angeles motel, was charged Friday with murder. Shane Zachary Flowers, 23, was arrested Wednesday...
View ArticlePeace Chapel Church, Worksite Labs To Open COVID Treatment Site In South LA
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Peace Chapel Church in South Los Angeles, in partnership with Worksite Labs, will host a pair of community health fairs starting Sunday. The church and medical lab firm will also...
View ArticleOne Man Wounded In Florence Shooting
FLORENCE (CBSLA) – A Los Angeles man is in stable condition on Saturday after being shot while sitting in his car in the Florence area of South L.A. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the...
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