David Martinez returned to Echo Park last week after spending a few days in jail, and he was hungry. That’s why Martinez and his wife, Gina Benavidez, and his sister were ordering tacos at about midnight from the taco truck at Logan Street near Sunset Boulevard ... Read More »
Police opened fire last week on David Martinez after the Echo Park resident pointed what appeared to be a gun at officers responding to a report of an armed gang member who had fired two shots. But a search immediately after the shooting failed to find ... Read More »
The Los Angeles Police Department has remained quiet about last Tuesday’s officer-involved shooting in Echo Park that left one man injured until an investigation is completed. While police have declined to provide details about the incident, the friends of the family of the injured man have ... Read More »
The LAPD bomb squad tonight blasted open a suspicious suitcase left behind on an Echo Park street but found nothing inside. Police sealed off a section of Allesandro Street near Whitemore Avenue and Oak Glen Place to inspect a piece of luggage that had a note ... Read More »
Police officer removes police tape as school kids walk up Echo Park Avenue near shooting scene. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary this afternoon at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Echo Park Avenue. Cars and traffic were flowing through the intersection. Metro passengers strained to ... Read More »
A Lincoln Heights man was fatally wounded Tuesday night after being shot multiple times while sitting outside his home, police said. The shooting on Smith Street near Pasadena Avenue involved two unknown suspects who opened fire on the victim at about 7:30 p.m., said Hollenbeck Homicide ... Read More »
Sunset Boulevard closed at Laveta Terrace/Photo by Scott Fajack Sunset Boulevard and Echo Park Avenue in Echo Park remained shut down this morning more than six hours after a suspected gunman was shot an injured by an officer. Sunset Boulevard cars, trucks and buses were being ... Read More »
An LAPD helicopter is hovering over the border of Silver Lake and Echo Park tonight as officers search for a man with a gun south of Sunset Boulevard, according an officer with the Rampart Division. The officer had no further details but a resident reported that ... Read More »
Police are searching for two suspects in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old male in Highland Park Saturday night in what homicide detectives believe is a gang-related killing. The 16-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene after being shot multiple times in the 100 block of ... Read More »
After moving out of her bungalow for a few days while it was being fumigated, an Echo Park woman and her family were preparing to return to their home last week when she was contacted by the exterminator. The house has been broken into on Wednesday ... Read More »