Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Numerous incidents of deaths and violence have occurred at Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. [a] Originally opened as a middle-class hotel on December 20, 1924, in Downtown Los Angeles, it eventually became a budget hotel, hostel, and rooming house. Its reputation is due to at least 16 sudden or unexplained deaths that have occurred in or around the ...
Deaths. 1. Coroners. Los Angeles County Coroner. Keenan Anderson was an African American man who died on January 3, 2023, about four and a half hours after he was restrained and tasered six times by a member of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). He was a cousin of Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Damage. $1 billion. The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising [4] [5]) were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a ...
Date apprehended. August 31, 1985. Ricardo Leyva Muñoz Ramirez ( / rəˈmɪərɛz /; February 29, 1960 – June 7, 2013), better known as Richard Ramirez, was an American serial killer and sex offender whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California. From April 1984 to August 1985 ...
Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African-American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated on the I-210.
A 1-year-old boy was hospitalized after a shooting Monday night in Harbor City that left both of his parents dead, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The shooting occurred around 6:30 ...
Lazarus, Francis v. City of Los Angeles. On February 24, 1986, the body of Sherri Rasmussen (born February 7, 1957 [ 1]) was found in the apartment she shared with her husband, John Ruetten, in Van Nuys, California, United States. She had been beaten and shot three times in a struggle.
Christopher Jordan Dorner (June 4, 1979 [ 2] – February 12, 2013) was a former officer of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) who, beginning on February 3, 2013, committed a series of killings against the LAPD in Orange County, Los Angeles County, Riverside County and San Bernardino County in the U.S. state of California. [ 3]