The body of a man and a woman were found today in the 14600 block of Eastwood Avenue in Lawndale, reports City News Service. The case is being investigated by Sheriff's deputies as a possible murder-suicide. more ›

A man tried to kill his wife before killing himself last night at a complex in Park La Brea. The dead man and injured woman were found Friday night around 8 pm in the huge complex near LACMA. more ›

Two men and one woman were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide this morning in La Puente. Investigators said that they suspect that one of the men killed his ex-girlfriend, her new boyfriend and then shot himself. more ›

A man and woman are dead after a murder-suicide at an optometrist's office in Inglewood this afternoon, reports the Contra Costa Times. The man, whose name hasn't been released, allegedly walked up to the woman inside the Inglewood Optometric Center at about 11:00 a.m. this morning, pulled out a gun and shot her. more ›

Oh, Larry Flynt. Always with the hijinks. Today's Flynt-news, courtesy of FOX, brings us the story of Nancy Benoit, who was killed by her husband Chris Benoit in 2007 in a murder-suicide. Chris strangled Nancy and their son, Daniel, and then hung himself. more ›

A Tarzana doctor shot and killed his wife and then turned gun on himself in the driveway of their Sherman Oaks home on Wednesday. “It is being investigated as a murder-suicide,” said Officer Bruce Borihanh, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, according to the L.A. Times. more ›

Two young children and their parents have died in a suspected murder-suicide that occurred Saturday night in East Los Angeles, notes a Los Angeles Sheriff Department release. According to the L.A. Times, the children were 5-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. more ›

LAPD investigators believe that the shooting that took place Monday afternoon inside an East Hollywood T-Shirt store was a murder-suicide. Officers who arrived to the scene at the Sunset T-Shirts Warehouse at 5401 West Sunset Blvd. [map] found the bodies of 40-year-old Chul Pak of Los Angeles and 50-year-old Marc Bayar of Valley Village. Detectives surmise that Pak first shot Bayar, then turned the gun on himself, using the gun registered to him that was found at the scene. Although they are not searching for anymore suspects, the LAPD are continuing their investigation of the crime. more ›

A shooting inside a store in the East Hollywood area has left two people dead, according to police. At about 12:40 p.m., the LAPD was called to a t-shirt store on the 5400 block of Sunset Boulevard. Inside, two men were found with fatal gunshot wounds. Officer Cleon Joseph described it as a "possible murder-suicide." Few details were available this afternoon as the investigation was ongoing. more ›

The first homicide of 2010 was logged yesterday when the LAPD responded to a call Friday afternoon at a home in Watts. There they discovered the bodies of Jose and Paula Torres, both 44, a couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide, according to LA Now. It was their daughter who made the call after she discovered them shortly after 1 o'clock in the afternoon on New Year's Day. She reported that it was her father who shot her mother, then turned the gun on himself. Authorities are investigating the motive for the killing. more ›

In a very matter-of-fact phone call to a Westminister emergency dispatcher yesterday morning, 38-year-old Thuy Le said she had stabbed her two daughters and herself, asking if authorities were coming to her aid, according to the OC Register. They did, finding a bloody room in Le's cousin's home, where the Le family had been spending the night. It was after 6 a.m. when her cousin, Toan Pham and his wife, were awakened by their two children who investigated screams from the living room. Pham went down, finding blood all over and Le holding one of her daughters--he had no idea what just happened just minutes prior. The 5-year-old remains in a medically induced coma, but her 3-year-old sister and Le suffered superficial wounds. No word on why Le attempted to hurt her children before herself, but it may have been due to the stress over a failed attempt to sell her massage therapy business. Police are looking into other possibilities such as marital or mental health problems. more ›

Yesterday evening, a mother walked into her Thousand Oaks apartment shortly before 6 p.m., finding her son, daughter and husband dead in what police are calling "a gruesome scene." Police say that there is "no reason to believe" that there is a murder suspect on the loose, but would not specifically say it was a murder-suicide. The family lived on the 2700 block of White Ridge Place. The son was 12 years old, the daughter, 7, and the father, who neighbors believe shot his kids before turning a gun on himself, was 52. more ›

In what appears to be a "family-on-family murder-suicide," according to one Police Lieutenant, six people, including four children, died after a shooting that took place in an upscale neighborhood in Santa Clara of Northern California, according to the Associated Press. Officers responding to the call around 8:30 last night arrived to find two adults and three children dead, and another adult and child both wounded. The child, an infant girl, died at the hospital, but the adult, a female, remains "hospitalized with life-threatening wounds." One male adult victim found on scene appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The names of the victims have not been released, and Santa Clara police are working to determine what happened inside this home, and why. In the last six months, Southern California has experienced three murder-suicides in Wilmington, Covina and Porter Ranch. more ›

• Five are dead and one person was hurt in an apparent murder-suicide in Yorba Linda, close to the Richard Nixon Library. A 14-year-old called in to report that his father had shot him. Police later found that the gunman shot his wife and 3 of his children before turning the gun on himself.
• As we have pointed out before, it's not a good time to be a Republican. The state GOP is meeting in San Francisco (of all places) to talk about ways to help the party in which a deep rift has developed between those on the right and those to the right of them.
• In a headline nearly as long as the entire article, the Daily News tells us: Yes, you're paying more for gas. Average is now $3.10. We need to invest in alternative fuels. We need to elect a Democrat who will explore alternative fuels. We need to elect a Repuiblican who will drill in Alaska. We need to drive more hybrids. Fuck it, I'm off to catch the bus.
• Is Councilman Herb Wesson gearing up for a mayoral run? Hmmmmm. At least one blog might support some opposition.
• LAX could receive greater scrutiny if a study is approved Monday that would look into diesel emissions and how noise from arriving and departing planes affects surrounding homes. It's something that Bob Hope Airport in Burbank continues to grapple with.
• The nod for best movie may go to "No Country For Old Men," but the award for best tasting tap water has gone to Los Angeles. A panel of 10 journalists and food critics sampled sparkling, tap and bottled water from 19 states and other countries, including New Zealand, Romania, Macedonia and the Philippines before calling it for Los Angeles.
• And speaking of Oscars, if you are reading this, it means you are not reading our Academy Awards Live- Blogging. Even if you are not a fan of the glitz and glamor, I know you like our wit, and it's being served in 10-minute increments. more ›

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