Subject: Shootings

• Breslin On RFK For 'Bobby'

  Jimmy Breslin on the assassination of Robert Kennedy in the Times today here. Say Brez: You couldn't get the gun out of the hand of the shooter. Hands grabbed and yanked and twisted but could not get it. The gun waved and people jumped away from it and now Roosevelt Grier, the immense professional football lineman, grabbed the shooter and got this huge arm around his neck from behind, and somebody screamed, "Kill him!" and Roosevelt just stared. All he had to do was tighten the arm and the guy

  November 20, 2006

• Questions about the Montage Resort Killings in Laguna

  Initial media reports about Sunday's improbable double killing at a ritzy Laguna Beach resort didn't mention who did the killing. Call me jaded, but that's odd. Always pause when journalists fail to provide answers to the basics: Who? What? When? Where? How? In this case, the Who? and the How? were missing or wrong. Oops. Based on Sgt. Jason Kravetz, a Laguna Beach police spokesman, first reports in the Orange County Register suggested that a "wild . . . crazy" married couple may have perished

  April 23, 2007

• Laguna Beach Cops Justified in Resort Killings?

  Highly reliable law enforcement sources gave OC Weekly access to audio tape recordings from Sunday's police killing of two guests at the ritzy Laguna Beach Montage Resort & Spa. The audio reveals that the city's police officers repeatedly pleaded with Kevin and Joni Park to put down a gun they'd brought to their $2,200-a-night oceanfront bungalow. Both ignored the police orders. Oddly, the woman even asked officers to call police. The officers, who must have been spooked, told Joni that th

  April 26, 2007

• Jury Declined to Hold Deputy Liable for Killing, Eating at McDonald's Minutes Later

  Earlier this month, Deputy Joseph William Balicki walked out of the Ronald Reagan federal courthouse in Santa Ana a happy man--off the hook for a killing. The veteran deputy, who has a history of questionable conduct involving Latinos, gunned down Roberto Peralez during a 2003 traffic stop in Stanton. Peralez, an unarmed 69-year-old man with a checkered criminal past, failed to obey all of Balicki's commands at the scene and was shot three times in the chest and heart. Ten minutes later Balicki

  December 15, 2007

• OC Journalism Loses Reporter, At Least Temporarily

  It's a sad fact that Orange County serves as home to numerous shills pretending to be journalists, but we've also been blessed with excellent reporters who've served their time here before graduating to the national and international stage. To name a few: Dexter Filkins, who has won acclaim for his fearless Iraq War coverage in the New York Times, and best-selling author J.R. Moehringer. The next rising star might be The Orange County Register's Peggy Lowe, who has made often cynical and bitch

  July 28, 2008

• Two Shot in Alerto's Mexican Food Parking Lot

  According to KTLA News, there was a gun fight overnight at the Alerto's Mexican Food parking lot in Westminster. Two people were shot, one critically.

  September 5, 2008

• Who Killed Cappuccino?

  May 31, 2001

• The Most Dangerous Neighborhood in the Safest City in America

  February 27, 2003

• Johnnie Cochran is Back to Right Another Alleged Injustice...Check That, It's His Law Firm

  Years after the glove didn't fit and we had to acquit, countless Larry King Live appearances and actor Phil Morris' career zenith with the Seinfeld Jackie Chiles parody, Johnnie Cochran Jr. is coming back to Orange County to right an alleged racial injustice. OK, so Mr. Cochran departed for that Great Ambulance Chase in the Sky back in 2005, but The Cochran Firm he started 40 years ago will represent the family of Julian Alexander, the 20-year-old newlywed and father-to-be who was mistakenl

  November 25, 2008

• Deaths of OC MMA Fighter, Wife, Suspected to be Murder-Suicide

  The LA Times, industry publications the Wrestling Observer and Sherdog and plenty of other sources report that autopsy results are leading authorities to believe that the deaths of an Orange County professional mixed martial arts fighter and his wife were exactly what they appeared to be when news broke yesterday: a murder-suicide.Justin Levens, 28, and his wife, Sarah McLean-Levens, 25, were found dead from gunshot wounds Wednesday afternoon at their Laguna Niguel condominium. The gun was foun

  December 18, 2008

• It's a Quick Read 8

  Orange County Register: The man who shot himself to death inside Crystal Cathedral two weeks ago thought he was a prophet of God and heard the voices of demons inside his head. Wait, there's more than one of us? The Reg also has video of the dude. . . . A Costa Mesa Police officer and another from neighboring Huntington Beach were cleared by the district attorney in the shooting of a man armed with a screwdriver. This only would have been news in Orange County had our DA not

  March 6, 2009

• In Anaheim, Sticks And Stones Can Kill You

  Auto Theft Advisory CommitteeFlanagan received an award last year for recovering the most stolen cars in the county. **Update: Julian Alexander's family has released a statement expressing their disappointment over the DA's decision not press charges against Kevin Fagan. "The shooting represents an egregious act of excessive and unnecessary force, and the impact of this tragedy has devastated and irreparably harmed his wife and young daughter...," the statement reads. If an innocent man waves a

  March 17, 2009

• DA Drops Charges Against Frank Santos, Who Was Accused of Pushing a Garden Grove Cop

  November 27, 2008

• [Web Exclusive!] A Case From the Past Haunts Reporter

  July 17, 2008

• Grave Error

  December 12, 2002

• A Tale of Two Shootings

  August 7, 2003

• Fire at Will

  Yet another open letter to Huntington Beach Police Chief Kenneth Small

  February 1, 2007

• Letters

  'Next time before you try and make a witty pointGod forbid for all of our sakes you never try againmake sure to at least have some sort of idea about life.'

  March 8, 2007

• The Wersching Machine

  June 19, 2003

• Room Service

  Questions about the Montage Resort killings in Laguna
  

  April 26, 2007

• Inside the Kill Zone

  Eyewitnesses contradict official version of Surf City shooting

  March 15, 2007

• A Day in the Park With Hitler

  July 27, 2006

• Shoot First, Ask No Questions Later

  September 7, 2006

• Neighbor-Involved Shooting

  July 14, 2005

• The Incredible Shrinking Shooting Case

  June 16, 2005

• A Deadly Game of Fetch

  April 7, 2005

• Indictment Imminent?

  March 10, 2005

• No Justice for Bassim

  March 3, 2005

• The Rhinestone Cowboy

  December 16, 2004

• The Year of the Gun

  January 8, 2004

• Gang Banged

  December 4, 2003

• Chaos Brings Order

  November 27, 2003

• Elephant Boys

  November 6, 2003

• Elmer Bustos R.I.P.

  July 17, 2003

• Badgering the Witness

  May 29, 2003

• Shot in the Back

  May 15, 2003

• Barrels of Fun!

  October 10, 2002

• I Know Where You Lived Last Summer

  July 25, 2002

• Cops and Clobbered

  June 28, 2001

• She Came in Through the Bathroom Window

  May 3, 2001

• I . . . Shot My Son

  July 20, 2000

• This weeks featured game: Miami vs. Indianapolis

  October 14, 1999

• It's a Quick Read 30

  Orange County Register: Fans gathered around a makeshift memorial outside Angel Stadium to honor pitcher Nick Adenhart, who died in a car accident. . . . A woman driving a car with a baby aboard was shot and killed in Santa Ana after leading police on a high-speed chase that began in Buena Park. . . . Another woman was not shot and killed in Rancho Santa Margarita after leading the CHP on a high-speed chase that began in Long Beach. . . . Orange County Transportation Authority spent ne

  April 10, 2009

• A Gun Sale at the Church is No Longer Far-Fetched

  Late, great OC Weekly music editor Buddy Seigal is shown here (under the stage name Buddy Blue) performing his tune "Gun Sale at the Church" with the San Diego-based, '80s cowpunk band The Beat Farmers (still going strong as The Farmers despite the loss of Buddy and founder Country Dick Montana). Seigal/Blue's song was a playful jab at the then-budding Moral Majority, but it does not sound so far-fetched now. Steve Smick kneeled before a cross at Crystal Cathedral before killing himself with a

  June 22, 2009

• Just Another Orange County Murder: Anthony Lopez [UPDATED]

  UPDATED WITH SHOOTING OF VICTIM'S NEPHEW . . . Anthony Lopez, 44, was lying on the sidewalk in the 300 block of North Jackson Street in Santa Ana, dying from a gunshot wound when police arrived just before 7 p.m. Sunday. Paramedics treated Lopez at the scene, but it was too late. The general location where Lopez was discovered can be found on Google maps.About eight hours later, Michael Marquez, Lopez's 33-year-old nephew, was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Orange after being shot in the leg

  June 30, 2009

• Crime Time: Spot This Week's Celebrity Victim!

  Hey, juvies, it's our weekly Weekly round-up of Orange County police calls . . .MONDAY, JUNE 29 The pre-vandalized Scott BorasAnyone Fitting the Description of a Major League Baseball Team Owner Spotted Outside Before the Crime? The windows of super-agent Scott Boras' Land Rover were vandalized while he was inside Bandera restaurant in Corona del Mar this evening. The vehicle reportedly sustained damage totalling $2,000--equal to about what Manny Ramirez earns every time he inhales. TUESDAY, JUN

  July 7, 2009

• Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

  911 dispatchers are supposed to take phone calls reporting crimes, not become a victim themselves. From Albany:A 911 dispatcher checking her gun's safety switch accidentally shot herself in the leg while at a Taco Bell drive-through at 11:10 a.m. Thursday, police reports stated. Although injured, Jeanita Fulmore, 28, drove herself to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany Police spokeswoman Phyllis Banks said. Police responded to the shooting and met Fulmore at the hospital. "She reached int

  July 16, 2009

• FBI Top 10 John Dillinger Myths Misses Biggest One of All

  To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of John Dillinger's crime reign--which ended July 22, 1934, when Public Enemy No. 1 was shot and killed by FBI agents near the Biograph Theater in Chicago, the bureau's press room just issued a list of 10 myths about the outlaw given new life in a Hollywood movie starring Johnny Depp. Among the myths the FBI list counters: that Dillinger was a Robin Hoodesque, romantic outlaw; that he was unarmed when he met his fate; that a stand-in was killed at the Biog

  July 22, 2009

• Just Another Orange County Murder: John Doe in Santa Ana

  View Larger Map Police received a call just shy of midnight Friday of shots being fired and a man being down in the 500 block of West Alton Avenue in Santa Ana, near Lillie King Park. Officers and paramedics arrived to find a man in a nearby alley with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. His name and age have not yet been released. Gang investigators are on the case.

  June 29, 2009

• UPDATED WITH SUSPECT SHOT DEAD: Just Another Orange County (Double) Murder: Heather Courtney Sorensen and Stephen Rene Serna

  UPDATED WITH POLICE KILLING OF MURDER SUSPECT, ID's OF HIS ALLEGED VICTIMS, CORRECTION . . . View Larger MapCourtesy of Anaheim Police DepartmentDouble murder suspect Anthony Castillo was shot by police Wednesday evening and declared dead later that night.​Anthony Castillo, the 31-year-old man wanted for allegedly taking his 5-year-old son after killing the boy's mother and boyfriend in Anaheim early Wednesday, was shot and killed by police that same night.Undercover officers traced Castillo t

  October 1, 2009