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Family identifies Watts teen brutally beaten while enjoying birthday hamburger
A Watts family is asking for justice after revealing that the teen brutally beaten on Tuesday was Jason Rios, who was enjoying a hamburger for his 15th birthday. On Tuesday, Rios went to the Habit Burger Grille at Freedom Plaza “while being so happy he could now go out on his own,” said Rios’ brother […]
15-year-old boy beaten by group at Watts fast-food restaurant
A teenager is in intensive care after he was brutally attacked by four people while eating at a fast-food restaurant in Watts. Jason Rios, who turned 15 just days ago, is in the intensive care unit following a disturbing assault at The Habit Burger Grill restaurant, his family said. According to his loved ones, the boy was at the eatery with a friend around 6 p.m. Tuesday when a group of four violently attacked him.
15-year-old boy jumped, severely injured in South Los Angeles
Police are searching for a group of suspects who jumped and severely injured a 15-year-old boy in the Watts area of South Los Angeles Tuesday night. The attack was reported just after 9 p.m. in the parking lot of a strip mall with restaurants near Century Boulevard and South Alameda Street. Officers responding to an […]
Woman stabbed at a Metro elevator in South LA
LOS ANGELES - A woman was stabbed in a Los Angeles Metro elevator in South Los Angeles. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department responded to a call of a stabbing near the 110 Freeway and Vermont Avenue late Monday night. The woman has since been taken to the hospital. Officials...
2 stabbed in another night of violence on L.A.’s Metro system
A woman attacked at a subway station in the Athens area was just one of two people stabbed on the Los Angeles Metro system Monday night. The first incident was reported around 9 p.m. as the woman was on an elevator that takes riders from the 105 Freeway median to the Vermont/Athens Station. The suspect […]
Men disrupt Los Angeles Metro service by climbing on top of train
Police were called to the Historic Broadway station in downtown Los Angeles after two men climbed atop a Metro train Thursday morning. Sky5 was over the scene on West 2nd Street and South Broadway at 5:45 a.m. after authorities received a call about two people trespassing in the underground tunnels used by the A and […]
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