“My heart doesn’t feel so heavy anymore,” the victim’s mother said after the verdict. “I waited three and a half years for this. Now I can go home and pick her up in her little urn and tell her she got justice.”
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.
Adrian Berumen was 17 when he beat a man and burned his body. Today, a judge said, “I think you knew exactly what you were doing. It was calculated. It was premeditated.”
Long Beach residents Julian Richard Maldonado, 20, Ronald Maldonado, 25 and Myrna Palay, 29, were all taken into custody after a multi-day arrest operation from April 15 to 21 in which police served multiple search warrants across several locations within the city.
The 24-year-old gunman contacted authorities and confessed to shooting 15-year-old Joshua Simmons during a cell phone sale gone bad, according to police.
Corderell McKnight, 32, was charged March 22 with one count each of murder, fleeing a pursuing peace officer’s motor vehicle while driving recklessly, possession of a firearm by a felon and unlawful possession of ammunition, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
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.
Police say the shooting occurred sometime before 12:44 a.m. near the intersection of South Street and Linden Avenue, an area east of DeForest Park.
A customer shot and killed an employee at a bar called the Crow’s Nest in the Westside neighborhood late Sunday, police said.
Adrian Berumen admitted to beating Christopher Waters to death and burning his body. In court, Waters’ family said they wanted to see true remorse.
