Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor ALTADENA - Three men who matched the description of suspects involved in multiple shootings that left two men wounded Sunday were arrested, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.
The three suspects were located by Pasadena police officers in Pasadena Sunday afternoon. Sheriff’s detectives and investigators from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Operation Safe Streets Bureau took the three men into custody, the sheriffs department said. Deputies were on the hunt for three suspects in a silver or gray sedan, described as a possible Nissan Maxima. The shootings occurred throughout Altadena starting just after Noon with one man wounded in the 3100 block of Santa Anita Avenue around 12:11 p.m., according to Deputy Eric Ortiz of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Information Bureau. A 49-year-old Black man was found wounded at the location, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Shootings were reported at two different liquor stores in the 2600 block of Fair Oaks Avenue 30 minutes after the first shooting. No victims were found, deputies said. A 31-year-old black man was found wounded after gunfire rang out in the 3100 block of Olive Avenue, just 10 minutes after the shootings on Fair Oaks Avenue, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. A shooting was also reported in a 200 block of W. Harriet St. Shortly after, the three suspects were arrested. Motives for the shootings are either unknown, or have not been publicly shared yet. Written by AARON CASTREJON CityWatch Editor ALTADENA - A suspicious man who ran from deputies got away during a perimeter search near a Pasadena school Thursday afternoon. Deputies responded to a neighborhood around 1:30 p.m. March 5 to at least one report of a man acting suspiciously in the 2000 block of Crarie Street. The suspect fled southbound towards Pasadena, According to Lt. Sanchez of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Altadena Station. Pasadena Police assisted deputies with searching for the suspect. Nearby Marshall Fundamental School, 990 N. Allen Ave., was briefly placed on lockdown as a precaution. The Pasadena Police Department released a statement, saying that students were not in imminent danger.
The search was ended roughly two hours later without a suspect in custody, Sanchez told SGV CityWatch. The suspect was described as a white or Hispanic man wearing black pants and no shirt, Sanchez said. |
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