Monthly Archives: April 2012
Hundreds to remember homicide victims Sunday in Whittier
Officials identify Hacienda Heights man killed in crash on the 57 Freeway in Pomona
Arcadia officials study crosswalk where fatal crash occurred last year
ARCADIA – The city’s legal team and traffic safety experts Sunday re-created the scene of a crash that killed a teenage girl and badly injured another in hopes of learning more about the circumstances of that fatal crash, which occurred just over a year ago.
Officials blocked off the 600 block of Duarte Road, between Baldwin and Lovell avenues, as they studied the crosswalk where Alice Zhang, 16, of Arcadia was fatally injured and her friend Priyanka Patel, 17, of Upland was badly hurt on April 10, 2011.
Investigators mounted a camera inside a car similar to the one driven by Du in the crash as they ran it through the movements involved in the fatal crash.
A gurney with a camera mounted on it was used to capture
the point-of-view of the victims, and two women of the same heights as Zhang and Patel repeatedly re-enacted the crash in concert with the Lexus as officials and traffic engineers studied the scene.
Investigators said the driver’s “excessively dirty” windshield, along with glare from the afternoon sun, played a major role in the crash.
The driver – Bowen Du, 20, of Arcadia – has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty last year to a misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter and reckless driving.
Firefighters rescue dog and cat from Pasadena apartment fire
DUI suspected in major-injury crash on the 605 in Baldwin Park
Updated: Burning body found on sidewalk in Altadena
Northbound 605 shut down in Baldwin Park after major-injury crash
AP: Brazil police arrest 3 for murder and cannibalism
SAO PAULO (AP) — Police have arrested three people for allegedly killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their flesh to make stuffed pastries known as empanadas that they sold to neighbors in their northeastern Brazil city.
The three suspects – a man, his wife and his mistress – belonged to a sect that preached “the purification of the world and the reduction of its population,” police inspector Wesley Fernandes in the city of Garanhuns told the Globo TV network Friday.
The newspaper Estado de S.Paulo said the man, Jorge Beltrao Negromonte, wrote a 50-page book titled “Revelations of a Schizophrenic” in which he says he hears voices and is obsessed with the killing of women.
Fernandes said the three were arrested Wednesday and had confessed to the crimes.
The three allegedly lured women to their house by promising them a job as a nanny. They were tracked down after one of the arrested women used a credit card belonging to a victim who disappeared last month.
Police found the remains of the two women in the backyard of the suspects’ house, which enraged neighbors burned to the ground Thursday.
Fernandes identified the three as Negromonte; his wife, Isabel Cristina Pires; and his mistress, Bruna Oliveira da Silva.
The three allegedly had plans for killing another woman living in the nearby city of Lagoa do Ouro, Fernandes said.
– From the Associated Press