Christine Pelisek

A 30-year-old man who had  moved into a house with his girlfriend and two children five months earlier was shot in South Los Angeles on July 17.  View Larger Map Arkansas native Hutch Jackson was returning to his home in the 1200 block of West 71st Street from a nearby......

Homicide investigators are still trying to figure out why a woman apparently stabbed her four-year-old son with a kitchen knife and then slit her wrists in their Highland Park home on July 18. The two bodies were found around 9 a.m. at a home in the 300 block of Vista......

A 30-year-old passenger of a cargo truck was shot to death by unknown assailants on July 17.  View Larger Map Ivan Valencia was struck in the upper torso after a car pulled up alongside the truck in which he was a passenger, and opened fire -- killing him instantly. The......

A 50-year-old male was gunned down as he was standing on the corner of F Street and Broad Avenue on July 15.  View Larger Map According to police reports, two unidentified suspects approached Eric Douglas on the street around 2:15 a.m. Douglas ran away but was followed by the two......

The Hispanic male who was beaten to death with a bottle on the afternoon of July 13 in Glassell Park has been identified as 44-year-old Heliodoro Cantoral. View Larger MapAn animal-regulations officer witnessed the fatal attack and saw the culprit bash a glass bottle over Cantoral's head. The assailant, described......

Newton-area detectives were notified on July 14 that a man who was found unconscious on a sidewalk died from his injuries.  View Larger Map The victim, a male Hispanic in his mid-40s, was discovered about 8:20 p.m., on July 6, on the corner of Wadsworth Avenue and East 49th Place......

An unidentified Hispanic male was beaten to death with a bottle in the afternoon of July 13 in Highland Park.  View Larger Map An animal regulations officer witnessed the fatal attack and saw the culprit bash a glass bottle over the victim's head. The assailant, described as a Hispanic male......

A 34 year-old Granada Hills man who was beaten up at a party on July 3 died from his injuries.  View Larger Map Bryant Matute was attending a party in the 1100 block of North San Fernando Road in northeast Los Angeles when he got into a argument with a......

A man gunned down in a Hollywood Burger King parking lot on July 12 has been identified as Gerson Rodriguez.  View Larger Map Rodriguez, 33, of Panorama City, was shot about 2:30 a.m. at 1030 N. Western Avenue, near Santa Monica Boulevard, according to police reports. Rodriguez was pronounced dead......