Trial began Thursday for Carlo Navarro, the underage driver accused of crashing into 3-year-old Omar Awaida and his parents while they walked home from trick-or-treating in 2019.
A jury will now have to decide whether the 20-year-old driver committed murder when he ran over a 3-year-old boy and his parents while they trick-or-treated.
Just over 45% of Long Beach voters support removing Gascón with a recall vote, according to a CSULB poll released Monday.
Polls have closed in Long Beach and the rest of Los Angeles County.
You likely won’t find any lines if you’re voting this morning in Long Beach.
Voters in Long Beach are poised to pick winners in several citywide offices and send challengers to a runoff in tight races for mayor and some City Council seats.
A defense attorney accused the Long Beach city prosecutor of delaying a court hearing in a high-profile drunken driving case, giving investigators more time to interview the suspect, but a judge said authorities did nothing improper.
The man is also accused of threatening the toy company Hasbro after it rebranded Mr. Potato Head to just “Potato Head.”
Daniel Fernandez stabbed a man to death while he and the man’s son robbed him of the cash he’d saved up to buy a home in Wilmington, prosecutors said.
“He lured young men, many of them who were vulnerable and struggling with addiction, to his sex dungeon with the promise of drugs,” a judge said as he sentenced the defendant to six years and eight months.
