Man In Critical Condition After Being Shot At Party In DTLA, 4 Detained 

A man was hospitalized in critical condition after getting shot at a party in downtown Los Angeles early Friday morning. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers responded to a shooting call at a gathering near 6th and Spring streets around 1:45 a.m. The victim, only identified as a 25-year-old man, was located with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was rushed to a nearby hospital with critical wounds. LAPD has detained four people in connection with the shooting. 

KTLA 5

Man Armed With Knife Shot, Killed By Police In Downtown LA

A deadly shooting is under investigation in downtown Los Angeles Thursday. The Los Angeles Police Department responded to a call in the 1000 block of East 7th Street a little after 11:30 a.m. When police arrived, they found a man armed with a knife, LAPD said. The person who called 911 said the suspect was threatening another person with a knife. The confrontation between the armed man and police ended with the knife-carrying man being shot to death. LAPD did not specify what ultimately lead one of the officers to shoot the man. No one else, including officers and bystander, were hurt in Thursday's incident. 

FOX 11

Shooting Investigation Outside Downtown LA Liquor Store

One person was wounded in a shooting outside of a liquor store in downtown Los Angeles and police are still searching for a suspect. According to Los Angeles Police Department, officers were dispatched to South Hill Street and West Adams Boulevard at around 5 p.m. after learning of shots fired in the area. Police found the victim near a liquor store in the area. They were taken to a nearby hospital. Detectives were working to determine if a possible suspect was barricaded inside of an apartment complex near the scene of the shooting, but further investigation revealed that the victim was actually shot with a pellet gun. 

CBS 2

Two Teens Arrested After Crashing Into Police Car At Burbank Town Center, Injuring Officer

Two teenagers were arrested Wednesday night after they crashed their car into a police vehicle, injuring an officer, before leading authorities on a high-speed chase that ended on the 5 Freeway, according to Burbank police. The incident began when police responded to a call about a reckless driver in the garage at the Burbank Town Center mall around 9:20 p.m., authorities said. When officers arrived, they found the car and tried to get the driver to stop, police said. But instead the teens drove off “at a high rate of speed” toward the garage exit and collided with a police car, authorities said. The car was damaged and an officer was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. The two then led police on a high-speed chase while breaking numerous traffic laws, police said. The driver eventually lost control of the car on the 5 Freeway near Empire Avenue, where the chase ended. The suspects, a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy who are both residents of Bakersfield, were arrested at the scene, police said. Their identities were withheld because they are juveniles.

Los Angeles Times

Justice For Andrew Price: $25K Reward Offered For Information In Gardena Man's Murder

Gone and never forgotten. A dedicated detective and a Gardena family have come together and are making a desperate plea for help finding Andrew Price’s killer. Nearly four years later, the case remains unsolved, and they believe someone out there knows who the killer is. Andrew was known as "Boobie" to those who knew and loved him, which was a nickname based on a beloved stuffed bear. Music was his passion and for the father of three, family was his life. On Nov. 30, 2019, tragedy struck. Investigators said he became the innocent victim of a shooting on Wilkie Avenue in Gardena. It’s in the same area where he grew up. Andrew was visiting his parents and on his way home, he stopped to visit some friends a couple of houses down. They were standing outside when two cars pulled and shots were fired. He was the only person struck by gunfire and later died at the hospital. "The pain doesn’t go away. It just hurts" his mother Dede Price said. The investigation reveals the bullets weren’t meant for him and the shooting was a targeted hit on someone else. 

FOX 11

Authorities Search For Inmate Who Escaped Los Angeles County Facility

Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped from a Los Angeles County facility on Thursday. Evan Chezick, 41, escaped from the Julius Klein Conservation Camp in Azusa and was discovered missing around 7:30 a.m., according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. When authorities couldn’t find Chezick during a morning head count, staff members immediately searched the buildings and grounds but he was nowhere to be found. Chezick is described as a man standing 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 187 pounds. He has blonde/strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes and was last seen wearing a white t-shirt and gray sweat shorts. Chezick is currently serving a five-year and four-month sentence for second-strike charges of possessing/owning a firearm by a felon or addict and resisting/deterring an officer with threat/violence. He was admitted to the correctional facility on Sept. 20, 2022, from Madera County. Anyone who has seen Chezick or knows of his whereabouts is asked to immediately contact law enforcement, call 911 or Camp Commander Shane Baker at 626-910-1213.

KTLA 5

Man Diagnosed With High Blood Pressure Last Seen In Lynwood Reported Missing

A 69-year-old man who authorities said has been diagnosed with high blood pressure and respiratory problems was reported missing after last being seen in Lynwood, authorities said Friday. Stanley Wagner was last seen at approximately 10:15 a.m. Saturday on the 3600 block of Imperial Highway near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Wagner is Black, 6 feet tall, weighs 126 pounds, has black hair, brown eyes and has a mustache. He was last seen wearing a black sweater and blue jeans. Anyone with information about Wagner or knows of his whereabouts was asked to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Anonymous tipsters can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or send tips to lacrimestoppers.org.

MyNewsLA

Texas Man Allegedly Kidnaps Teenage Girl, Sexually Assaults Her While Traveling To L.A. County

A 61-year-old man from Texas is accused of kidnapping a teenage girl and repeatedly sexually assaulting her before being arrested in Long Beach. According to the Department of Justice, the 13-year-old girl was walking down a San Antonio street when suspect Steven Robert Sablan brandished a handgun and forced her into his car on July 6. The victim recalled the 61-year-old man saying "If you don't get in the car with me, I am going to hurt you." While driving Sablan allegedly told the teenager that he would bring her to a cruise ship so she could visit a friend in Australia, but she had to "do something for him first." According to court documents, he then sexually assaulted the teenager multiple times. For two days, the pair drove to California. Sablan allegedly sexually assaulted the girl at least two more times during the trip. The victim and her alleged captor arrived at a Long Beach laundromat on July 9. Sablan entered the laundromat and left the girl in the car. Alone in the car, the 13-year-old grabbed a piece of paper and wrote: "Help me!" hoping to get the attention of passersby. 

CBS 2

Watch: Michigan Officer Springs Into Action To Save Child Who Was Pulled ‘Lifeless' From Pool

A police officer rushed to help save a 2-year-old boy who almost drowned in a pool in a dramatic episode that was captured on the officer’s body camera. The incident occurred at a home in Sterling Heights, a suburb of Detroit, according to a July 17 news release from police. “There was a party going on, so there were people in the backyard,” a spokesman for the Sterling Heights Police Department told McClatchy News. “The parents said they went to the front of the house for a moment to do something and came back and realized that the child was in the pool,” the spokesman said. Upon seeing the toddler motionless and seemingly “lifeless” at the bottom of the pool, the child’s father immediately jumped in and pulled him to the surface. He and the child’s mother then began administering CPR, police said. After receiving chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for about one minute, the boy spat up water and “began gasping for breaths,” police said. Around that time, an officer sprinted onto the scene — following a 911 call — and grabbed ahold of the boy, who was fighting to breathe.

Charlotte Observer

Fire Crews Conduct Hoist Operation For 80-Year-Old Hiker In The Palisades

Fire crews were conducting a hoist operation Thursday to rescue an 80-year-old hiker in the Pacific Palisades area. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to the 1500 block of Bienveneda Avenue, north of Sunset Boulevard, around 2:55 p.m. to a report of a hiker in “moderate medical distress,” said Margaret Stewart of the LAFD. Stewart said LAFD air fire crews located the man and began preparing for a hoist operation for hospital transport. The nature of the man’s distress was not immediately available.

MyNewsLA

LA County Reports Slight Uptick In COVID Metrics, Urges Simple Precautions

Los Angeles County health officials Thursday reported a slight uptick in COVID-19 infections and other virus-tracking metrics over the past week, prompting a reminder for residents to take sensible precautions against infection. “Los Angeles County could be facing a small bump in cases in the coming weeks, which is not entirely unexpected looking at what is happening in other parts of the world, including cases rising in Japan,” county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said in a statement. “While it is too early to say anything definitively, the best course is to take advantage of the tools and knowledge we have gained to minimize the spread, especially for those who are most vulnerable. “I am happy to see that our hospitalizations and deaths remain relatively low, and my hope is that with the protection of vaccines, the use of therapeutics, and our acquired immunity, that even if transmission does rise, we will not see the same increases in hospitalizations and deaths that we have in the past.” The county reported 2,034 new COVID-19 cases over the past week, a 32% increase from 1,544 cases the previous week. The rate of people testing positive, meanwhile, rose to 7.5% as of July 15, up from 5.1% a month earlier, according to the Department of Public Health.

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LA County Tops List Of US Counties With Greatest Number Of People Living With Alzheimer's Disease

On the heels of a new federally-approved drug for Alzheimer's disease, scientists expect there could soon be another, and a new non-invasive way to screen for the disease looks promising. The developments are eye-opening, especially for those living in Los Angeles County. Though L.A. is known for its traffic and weather, it now has a new distinction. "Los Angeles County has the greatest number of people with Alzheimer's disease among all the counties in the United States," said Dr. Zaldy Tan, the medical director of the Jona Goldrich Center for Alzheimer's and Memory Disorders at Cedars-Sinai. Tan attended the Alzheimer's Association's scientific meeting in Amsterdam where new research reveals California has the largest number of people living with the disease in the country. It affects 12% of state residents over 65. Within California, Imperial County has the highest rate at 15%. L.A. County is second at 13.2%, but because of its large population, nearly 200,000 people are living with Alzheimer's at 65 and older. However, Tan said not all of it can be attributed to age.

ABC 7

E. Coli Hammers A California Town, Sending Patients To ER And Shutting Down Restaurants

Maria McCloud’s 1-year-old granddaughter got sick first — vomiting and diarrhea and a fever. A few days later, McCloud began to feel ill, as did several other children in the home. Probably the stomach flu, the family figured. And then they got a notice from the water district in this Northern California mountain town: E. coli had been found in the water supply. It was at that point that McCloud — still feeling nauseated —piled the vomiting baby and several other sick children into the car and made the 20-mile drive to the hospital in the nearby town of Fall River Mills. Once there, a test soon confirmed that she and her baby granddaughter had E. coli too. And, McCloud said, a doctor told her that numerous patients from her small town had shown up with stomach ailments. Valerie Lakey, the chief public information officer for the Mayers Memorial Hospital District, said the hospital had treated four patients with confirmed cases of E. coli, and that other patients may have presented with symptoms but not been tested.

Los Angeles Times

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