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View Larger Map UPDATE: Los Angeles Police Department detectives shot a robbery suspect to death on August 6. According to police reports, detectives were conducting a surveillance operation about 3:30 pm at a Metro PCS store near 49th Street and Wadsworth when four male suspects attempted to rob the store......

View Larger Map A young male Hispanic was shot on Sunday afternoon at 1559 East 107th Street. Osmin Linnares, 20, was killed by unidentified gunmen in a drive-by shooting. Police are investigating the motive behind the killing and the hunt for suspects is on. Anyone with information on the case......

View Larger Map Unidentified gunmen shot Anthony Harris, 24, in South Los Angeles on August 9 as Harris stood in a crowd gathered in the middle of the road in front of 13008 South Figueroa Street. Police say it is unclear why the crowd had gathered at 2 a.m. early......

Martha Cruz, 18, was killed August 1st, when unidentified gunmen shot several rounds into the backseat of the vehicle she was traveling in.View Larger Map The incident occurred at 2900 South Normandie Avenue, when an occupant of a vehicle that pulled up next to Cruz's car started firing. Cruz died......

A man was fatally shot early Saturday morning, August 1, at 1:55 a.m.View Larger Map Thirty-two-year-old Guillermo Vargas was found dead at 8418 S Main Street. Though the chances of a verbal dispute are not ruled out, police are not sure about the exact cause that led to Vargas' killing......

Juan Espinoza, 19, was shot on the corner of Friar Street and Vesper Avenue in Van Nuys July 31. View Larger Map According to the police the incident happened 10.30 p.m., after a verbal dispute between the suspect and Espinoza. Investigators have indicated the gunman to be a male Hispanic......

Lily Belle Burk, 17, was found dead in the passenger seat of her black Volvo 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning. View Larger Map The teenager had left her home in Los Feliz at 2 p.m. to pick up some papers for her mother at Southwestern University School of Law in the......

Thirty-one-year old Willie Adams died while his friend was seriously injured during a shooting incident on July 25.. View Larger Map The incident occurred at 2 a.m. on Saturday, when gunmen walked into an apartment building located in the 9000 block of Stanford Avenue in South Los Angeles and shot......

With Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince hitting the big screen, I brush up on my Potter basics, reading the Half Blood Prince — twice — and persistently scouting the Internet for updates. That’s where I find Whimsic Alley, proclaiming itself as the “only store in the entire world” capable......

A 31-year-old man was fatally wounded and another male victim was injured, in a shooting that occurred on the street in front of 725 East of 25th Street on July 1.  View Larger Map Though the circumstances of the shooting are still unclear, according to preliminary reports, Jeffrey German and his......