BRIEFLY : MAN FATALLY STABBED AFTER SLASHING TIRES.A Canoga Park man was fatally stabbed by three men whose car tires he had slashed in response to his niece having been harassed by the men on her way home from a local liquor store, police said. The 11 p.m. confrontation Wednesday in the 7300 block of Variel Avenue left Antonio Canez, 35, mortally wounded. He died at 1 a.m. Thursday at West Hills Hospital. The incident began when Canez's 18-year-old niece came home and told him that she had been menaced by three men outside Mustang mustang [Sp. mesteño=a stray], small feral horse of the W United States. Mustangs are descended from escaped Native American horses, which in turn were descended from horses of North African blood, brought to the New World by the Spanish c.1500. Liquor at Sherman Way and Variel Avenue. She said the men had followed her home and pointed out the car they were in. Detective Rick Swanston of West Valley Division said Canez ran over and slashed the car tires, then he got involved in a fight with two of the men. ``A couple of other people involved themselves in the fight,'' Swanston said, and Canez was disarmed. Having lost the knife, Canez ran east in the parking lot. The men, two on foot and one in the car, converged on Canez and stabbed him fatally, Swanston said. The suspects fled in the brown Oldsmobile Cutlass The Oldsmobile Cutlass was an automobile made by the Oldsmobile division of General Motors. The Cutlass was introduced in 1961 as a unibody compact car competing with the Dodge Lancer and Mercury Comet. , 1983 or 1984 model, with two flat tires. SOURCE: Daily News Murderer who fled airport charged A convicted murderer and bank robber who remains at large was charged Thursday with assaulting a peace officer during his escape at Los Angeles International Airport “LAX” redirects here. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). “KLAX” redirects here. For other uses, see KLAX (disambiguation). Los Angeles International Airport (IATA: LAX, ICAO: KLAX, FAA LID: LAX . Daniell Scott, 27, is now sought on a local warrant. Authorities say he overpowered o·ver·pow·er tr.v. o·ver·pow·ered, o·ver·pow·er·ing, o·ver·pow·ers 1. To overcome or vanquish by superior force; subdue. 2. To affect so strongly as to make helpless or ineffective; overwhelm. 3. and beat an Oakland County sheriff's deputy in a restroom Tuesday after the officer unlatched a handcuff from the side bar of a restroom toilet to rehandcuff him. The prisoner had been brought to LAX after serving the last part of his 63-month term in a federal penitentiary penitentiary: see prison. in Lompoc. He was set to begin serving prison in Michigan stemming from a murder in Pontiac. The warrant counts as a second ``strike'' against Scott, said Detective J. Ortiz of the Pacific Division. The muscular convict, who is 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds, is bald and has a distinctive scar on his head. He was wearing a dark blue shirt and dark blue pants when he fled. The partner of the injured officer gave chase but was unable to fire his weapon because of the crowds at the airport's Terminal 3. SOURCE: Daily News Officials identify 3 of 4 killed in fire CANYON COUNTRY - Three of four bodies found burned in a Canyon Country apartment last week after an apparent murder-suicide were identified Thursday as that of a mother and her two small children. One adult was identified as Carolina Brown, 26, a resident of the unit in the Park Sierra complex. The two young children were identified as her daughter Kimberly, 3, and Robert Frank Jr., 1, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County sheriff's and coroner's officials. Still unidentified is the body of a male who investigators believe is Brown's estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. husband, suspected of starting the Sept. 6 fire. The man had been taken into custody for a psychiatric evaluation psychiatric evaluation The assessment of a person's mental, social, psychologic functionality. See DSM-IV-table multiaxial assessment, Personality testing, Psychiatric history, Psychiatric interview. last month after he made threats to kill himself and his family, authorities have said. SOURCE: Daily News Board OKs 9% cut in fire suppression tax Fire suppression tax bills will drop an average of 9 percent for property owners in the Fire Protection District under reductions approved Thursday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
Along with the cut, which translates to about $5 for an average homeowner off what was a $58 benefit assessment bill last year, the county Fire Department will be able to spend about $10 million more to buy new fire equipment, Chief P. Michael Freeman Michael Roy Freeman (born 9 December 1960, London, England) is a New Zealand chess player. He emigrated to New Zealand in September 1967. He was a pupil at Otago Boys High School, Dunedin from 1974 to 1978. told supervisors. The tax cut and new equipment are the result of several factors from last year that left the district with about $40.5 million in carried-over funds, about $11 million more than anticipated, Freeman said. The department will also shave its reserve funds by $10 million. SOURCE: Daily News |
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