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Friends and family gathered Thursday at Sunrise Church  to celebrate the life of a big-hearted entrepreneur who made it big-time in the mixed martial arts world.

Charles David Lewis Jr., the co-founder of TapouT, a multi-million dollar clothing line marketed to mixed martial arts athletes and fans, was killed March 11 in a car collision in Newport Beach.

He was 45.

The Rialto Unified School district has a new superintendent.

In a 5-0 vote last week, the Board of Education hired interim Superintendent Harold Cebrun to take over the job from Edna Davis-Herring, who left the post on Dec. 31.

District officials said Cebrun's contract pays $192,000 with a $750 monthly car allowance from March 5 to June 30, 2010. He will receive 25 paid vacation days. He has offered five unpaid furlough days to the district.

Cebrun on Tuesday said he was excited about the job.

A jury has found Andres Landeros Garcia guilty of first-degree murder in the deadly car-to-car shooting of a San Bernardino woman in 2006 that possibly began as a confrontation outside a Rialto bar.

Garcia was found guilty of murder, attempted murder and assault with a firearm on a person in the death of 25-year-old Rosa Angela Trigo, who was shot while inside a car heading east on West Fifth Street in San Bernardino after leaving El Patio Bar, in Rialto.

Jurors reached the verdicts Friday, but the Judge Ronald Christianson ordered them sealed until they could be read this morning in San Bernardino Superior Court, according to court records.

Garcia, 23, is scheduled to return to court April 9 for sentencing, said Deputy District Attorney Terry Brown.

ity leaders are celebrating Women's History Month Saturday with a lunchtime discussion on issues affecting women.

City Clerk Barbara McGee will join City Council members Deborah Robertson and Ed Palmer to host the third annual "State of Women: A Dialogue Between Women."

The featured speakers are State Sen. Gloria Negrete-McLeod, D-Chino, and Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter, D-Rialto.

A noon Metrolink train leaving San Bernardino was canceled after passengers reported seeing someone get on the train with a gun, officials said.

At 12:05 p.m., San Bernardino police received a call from Metrolink that there was a person on the train with a gun. Police took everyone off the train, searched the two people and didn't find anything, said Sgt. Siobhan Sansone.

Then the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which has jurisdiction over Metrolink, brought out a dog to search the train.

Passengers on the noon train took the 1 p.m. train leaving San Bernardino, said Metrolink spokesman Francisco Oaxaca.

An 11:20 a.m. train from Los Angeles to San Bernardino was delayed in Rialto during the incident, but service has returned to normal, Oaxaca said.

A man suspected in an apparent gang-related shooting outside a party on Arbeth Street last year is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Monday, according to prosecutors.

Isaak Torres, 19, of La Puente, faces charges in the shooting death of 25-year-old Tomas Garcia Jr., of La Puente, in the 19000 block of Arbeth Avenue, in an unincorporated area near Rialto, in Sept. 14.

The hearing was scheduled during proceedings today in Fontana Superior Court, according to the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office.

The Rialto Historical Society will feature two members of the Police Department's K-9 team at its monthly luncheon Saturday.

Officer Glen Anderson and K-9 Gilley will be in the basement of the old church at 201 N. Riverside Ave.

The lunch, which costs $5, is at noon, and the program with Anderson and Gilley will be at 1 p.m.

For more information, call the historical society at (909) 875-1750.

A 1-year-old boy nearly died Friday afternoon when he fell into a pool in Rialto.

The baby's family members told Rialto fire officials that another child was playing with the baby by the pool when he fell in the backyard pool in the 1900 block of N. Joyce Avenue around 5:30 p.m., according to a Rialto fire news release.

The other child got an older sibling to pull the baby out of the pool, and an adult started doing CPR on the baby. The children got to the pool area through sliding door.

When paramedics arrived, the baby had a pulse but was not breathing. On the way to the hospital, he started recovering, according to the release.

Fire officials want to stress that pool drownings do not only occur in the summer.
They also want to point out the importance of adult supervision, barriers to block pools, alarms on doors leading to water, swim lessons and CPR knowledge.

Rialto police arrested an 18-year-old Hesperia man Thursday after they say he was shooting a BB gun from a bedroom window and hit an 8-year-old child at Fitzgerald Elementary School.

The boy was hit in the left forearm while on the playground and was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, according to a Rialto police news release.

The boy received a puncture wound and was released from the hospital later in the day.
Police found Robert Sandoval in the 2400 block of W. Via Bello Dr.. He had been shooting from a second-story window, according to the release.

Two people were injured during a head-on collision at Etiwanda and Cedar avenues in Rialto Thursday afternoon.

One of the cars rolled over as a result of the 2:26 p.m. crash, said a county fire dispatch supervisor.

Two people whose conditions were not known needed to be taken to the hospital.

A student was injured with a BB gun at Fitzgerald Elementary School this afternoon.

Lt. Randy DeAnda said the school at 2568 W. Terra Vista Dr.had not been locked down as a result of the incident.

Officials here say the city needs someone to tout the town.

On Tuesday, the City Council voted 4-1 to introduce an ordinance creating the position of public relations officer.

The job would pay about $107,000 a year, including benefits.

"Clearly the public image is important to the city," said Councilman Joe Baca Jr.  "That's part of the job of this public relations officer, to make sure we're talking to the media so that the perception for Rialto changes."

josh.dulaney@inlandnewspapers.com

A man was shot in Rialto Sunday night while walking on East Jackson Street.

Two men approached the man in the 200 block of the street and asked him for money, said Lt. Joe Cirilo.

The man took everything out of his pockets and then ran away, Cirilo said. Then the man was shot in the arm. He was taken to the hospital and later released.

Rialto police believe the man whose body was found inside a burning house early Tuesday may have tried to kill himself, officials said.

The man, who has not yet been identified, appeared to have a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Lt. Joe Cirilo.

"It appears to us that this is a possible suicide," he said.

Coroner's officials will investigate the cause of death, Cirilo said.

Firefighters arrived at the home in the 100 block of North Pine Avenue at 3:45 a.m.

The Rialto Historical Society will host a luncheon Saturday featuring a talk by Sun editor and author John Weeks.

The lunch will be served at noon at a cost of $5. Weeks' talk will be at 1 p.m. Weeks will discuss and sign his book, "Inland Empire." The book is a pictorial history of the Inland Empire.

The Historical Society hosts a luncheon the first Saturday of every month October through June.

The luncheon will take place at the old church, the Kristina Dana Hendrickson Cultural Center, at 201 N. Riverside Ave.

For more information, call (909) 875-1750.

A man was shot in the back tonight, but San Bernardino police say it's unclear what happened.

The man and another person said they were in a car at Baseline and Medical Center Drive when someone shot into the vehicle, said San Bernardino Lt. Gwendolyn Waters.

Waters said police are not sure that's where the incident took place because they couldn't find any shell casings or anyone who heard the shots.

"Their statements are inconsistent," Waters said.

The victim and the other person in the car say they drove home to Rialto and called Rialto police, who informed San Bernardino police at 6:51 p.m.

The Rialto City Council on Tuesday will vote on whether to spend $461,000 to buy three-fourths of an acre at 2530 S. Lilac Ave. in Bloomington. Thr purchase would expand the site of future Fire Station 205 and Training Facility to a little more than four acres.

josh.dulaney@inlandnewspapers.com

The Rialto Police Department will hold another area-command meeting Jan. 27 for residents who live in the city's east end.

The 7 p.m. meeting at Boyd Elementary School will be for residents who live south of Baseline and east of Willow Avenue to discuss their concerns about their community.
Boyd is located at 310 E. Merrill Ave.

The area commander for that portion of the city is Lt. Randy DeAnda, who can be reached at (909) 820-2647. 

A man in his early 20s was shot around 6 p.m. tonight on Lorraine Place just west of Spruce Avenue in Rialto.

The man was shot in the back by another man, said Rialto police Lt. Joe Cirilo. The victim was taken to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton.

The extent of his injuries and what led to the shooting are unclear.

There was a shooting around 6 p.m. in Rialto at Spruce Avenue and Lorraine Place tonight.

Rialto Lt. Joe Cirilo said he did not yet have details about the extent of the injuries or the circumstances surrounding the shooting.