ALHAMBRA — Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich has announced plans to propose a $20,000 reward Tuesday for information leading to the capture of the hit-and-run driver who fatally struck an elderly, wheelchair-bound Alhambra man late last year.
Shih–Siang Ho died at the scene of the Dec. 1, 2009 crash at the 6th Street underpass at Ramona Road in Alhambra, police and coroner’s officials said. The driver of the unknown-type vehicle fled the scene and has not been found.
Alhambra Police said Ho was believed to be heading home from his sister-in-law’s house when he was struck about 1:20 p.m.
Antonovich plans to propose a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the hit-and-run driver at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, according to written statement issued by his office.
Investigators are renewing their request for the public’s help in locating the hit-and-run vehicle and its driver, according to the statement. It likely had minor to moderate damage on the front, passenger side as a result of the crash.
Anyone with information is asked to call Alhambra police Officer Brandon Cardella at 626-570-5119.
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Some updates on local cases
The Board of Supervisors is about to extend the time limit on the $10,000 reward offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of two men suspected of killing Sammantha Salas in January.
Salas was gunned down in a section of Monrovia known as “No Man’s Land.” Police believe her killing was the result of a series of escalating gang violence attacks between black and Latino gangs that took on racial overtones.
The reward vote takes place Tuesday.
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Sheriff’s homicide Lt. Dan Rosenberg said Monday that all five juveniles suspected of taking part in the robbery that killed Covina Hills resident Michelle Chien at her home earlier this year will be tried as adults. One suspect, Victor Maurtua, 19, a member of the El Monte Flores gang remains at large in the case.
“This is a pretty vicious case,” Rosenberg said. “And it was random basically. These were local kids. One individual orchestrated the whole things and the others followed along.”
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Rosenberg also has a crew working alongside LAPD detectives in hopes that they can solve the slaying of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Juan Escalante, 27.
The deputy was slain outside his home two weeks ago, as he left for work at Men’s Central Jail.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
A U.S. Army reservist, Escalante had worked for the Sheriff’s Department for 2 1/2 years. He was assigned to the “high power” unit, where dangerous inmates — many of them violent gang members — are housed in single-man cells. Investigators said this week that the shot that killed Escalante was fired from behind him and that he may not have seen his killer or killers.
Ropsenberg said deputies and officers are working alongside and getting along.
“We’re working real well together,” he said. “We still don’t have a motive, but we’re looking at everything.”
REWARD!
The Supes are offering a $10,000 reward for information on the murder of Evelyn Mosley, according to a press release put out this afternoon.
Mosley, 90, was killed last Thursday after a brief struggle in her home in the 3200 block of Lincoln Avenue in Altadena.
Her body was discovered by fire fighters responding to a call at the home.
Reward in Whitehead case extended
THe Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to extend the amount of time a reward would be offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer or killers of Robert Whitehead, a good samaritan who was shot to death outside his parents home when he confronted a group of taggers.
Arrests have been made in the case and at least one man suspected of involvement, Paul “Malo” Salazar, a onetime Bishop Amat student who was an alleged member of Puente 13, is dead.
Salazar was killed outside his home last summer.
Hit and Run Reward in Granado case

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will vote on a proposed reward in the Hit and Run death of Covina resident Ralph Granado, pictured above with his wife Rose. Granado was killed on his way to work at the County Assessors office on July 20. Tragically a week later his nephew was killed in Whittier when he was struck by a drunken driver.