Officers arrested Alexander Schecter, 24, at his Santa Monica residence on Friday and booked him on one count of rape by force, one count of forcible oral copulation, one count of robbery, one count of extortion and one count of battery.
He told police he had been in the area of lifeguard tower 55 on the 11400 block of Vista Del Mar around 7:20 p.m. Saturday when a confrontation broke out near him and he heard a gunshot. Moments later, he realized he had been shot, according to Eisenman.
Immediately, three men in plain clothes with camouflage tactical vests emerge and rush toward a man, out of view of the camera, shouting as they encounter him. "Sorry, we thought you were someone else," one of the men in camo says, as the resident screams at them for ambushing him with guns drawn. Seconds later, the three men run back to the unmarked SUV and drive away.
A driver armed with a flamethrower has rammed a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power substation in a possible "terrorism-related event." The rented silver Nissan Sentra crashed through a secured gate at the site in Boulder City, Nevada, before a gun went off on Thursday. A man, who was wearing "soft body armor" and had two shotguns and an assault rifle-style pistol, was found dead in the car suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
POMONA, Calif. -- A machete-wielding man chased a teenager through a Southern California laundromat on Saturday after seeing the teen wearing a 49ers jersey, according to the boy's father. The confrontation unfolded inside the Super Wash N Dry in Pomona, where video shows the suspect entering the business holding a large machete. The footage captures the teen running through the laundromat as the man follows him.
On Sunday, a member of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center spotted the lines Fuck Zionism and RIP Renee spray-painted on an exterior wall on the campus the second line an apparent reference to the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on 7 January. The incident was first reported by the New York Times, and the PJTC confirmed it in a statement.