Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

PASADENA - A dog did not survive a very destructive house fire Saturday.

Three properties were damaged by the fire in the 1000 block of East Bell Street November 9. First responders were sent to the home just after 1:30 p.m. November 9. No people were injured, according to the Pasadena Fire Department.

The one of the properties that burned is a total loss.

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

LOS ANGELES - Investigators named the 41-year-old man who died on a train platform in Pasadena July 24.

Isaac Hackett was identified by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner. He was a Monrovia resident.

While the medical examiner continues to defer the cause of death, a recent crime report published by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Transit Services Bureau suggests Hackett fell.

“Officers assigned to Pasadena PD conducted the preliminary investigation and stated the male fell from the apartment complex located above the station,” according to the Transit Services Bureau in a written statement.

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It is not publicly clear if Hackett fell accidentally, was pushed, or possibly jumped.

A Line train service temporarily bypassed the Memorial Station during the investigation, according to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

PASADENA - A death investigation is underway after a body was found on an A Line train platform early Wednesday.

First responders were sent to the Memorial Station, 125 E. Holly St., at 4 a.m. July 24. The victim is described as a Black man in his 40s, according to Lt. Matt Campeau of the Pasadena Police Department.

Campeau would not elaborate if there was anything suspicious about the man’s death.

The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner is on scene.

A Line train Service has been restored to the Memorial Station after trains temporarily bypassed the location during the investigation, according to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

PASADENA - The suspect accused of murdering a man at a Pasadena Park November 18 was arrested and charged with murder and was charged with crimes stemming from other incidents in town.

Aaron Miguel Conell, 24, was officially charged with one count each of murder, attempted murder and assault with a semiautomatic firearm, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Conell allegedly shot and wounded another victim October 29 at Washington Park, 700 E. Washington Blvd., the same park where 64-year-old Mickey Cooper was found shot dead last week.

Conell is also accused of walking up to a driver at a Pasadena gas station and aiming a handgun at the driver’s head, according to the District Attorney’s Office.

Mickey Cooper is the brother of former NBA basketball player Michael Cooper. Michael told ABC7 Eyewitness News that the brothers would often play basketball at the same park where Mickey was slain.

Mickey led a somewhat troubled, but otherwise quiet life in his adult years.

If convicted as charged, Conell will face 50 years to life in prison.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

PASADENA - A man was found dead from apparent gunshot wounds in a public park early Saturday morning.

A ShotSpotter alert was received and officers were dispatched to Washington Park, 700 E.. Washington Blvd., at 4:10 a.m. An unresponsive man was found suffering gunshot from apparent gunshot wounds. He was declared dead at the scene, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

A motive for the shooting is apparently not known.

The Pasadena Police Robbery Homicide Unit is investigating. Anyone with information on this shooting is urged to call the Pasadena Police Department at 626-744-4241. Remain anonymous by calling LA Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), through the P3Tips mobile app, or lacrimestoppers.org.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

PASADENA - Authorities named the accused gunman who shot and killed a woman at an apartment complex Monday.

Guary Lonnie Shuford III, 32, Was led away from the building by several swat officers after barricading himself inside of an apartment complex for roughly eight hours.

Shuford, on parole for robbery, was booked on suspicion of murder, according to Pasadena Public Information Officer Lisa Derderian.

The Pasadena Police Department named the shooting victim, 34-year-old Jamila Elysse Moss, a Pasadena resident. She was found deceased on what investigators described as the exterior portion of the apartment complex in the 200 block of South Raymond Avenue.

The incident was likely domestic violence.

Resident Angelicque McQueen claimed that the shooting occurred next her apartment unit. She heard the gunfire ring out. Soon, officers with weapons drawn descended upon the complex. She and her son Devon De La Hoya fled the complex after officers ordered McQueen to lock her dogs in the bathroom

“Around 9:30 this morning we heard gunshots. We heard two, then heard six after that,” McQueen told SGV CityWatch. “I went down to walk the dogs. Everything was normal. I get greeted with a SWAT team at the exit door.”

An officer screamed at McQueen to get back upstairs. Once back upstairs, McQueen said she saw officers with weapons trained on her neighbor’s unit.

Three sworn officers with shields escorted McQueen and her son to an elevator to evacuate the complex.

McQueen claims the shooting victim may have fallen, or was thrown from a window and down below to near the Metro A Line Del Mar Station.

Glendale police officers and crisis negotiators aided in the operation.

Bus shuttles replaced Metro trains throughout much of the day as the Del Mar station remained closed with only several police officers to secure the station.

The apartment complex faces Central Park, which was oddly populated with park goers and apartment residents not only eager to get back in, but anxious to retrieve their pets left locked in their units. Some residents still inside the complex casually exited during the ordeal.

Around 5:30 p.m., this reporter was led by residents through a neighboring business’s parking lot to the north side of the apartment complex, and got close enough to the apartments to hear a man yelling and screaming from a window overlooking the Del Mar Station.

Several powerful flash bang grenades were used. The powerful blasts echoed throughout the area.

Once Shuford was place in a white patrol vehicle, the vehicle peeled out south on Raymond Avenue.

Robbery-Homicide detectives with the Pasadena Police Department arrived to take over the investigation.

Train service to the Del Mar Station was reestablished Tuesday morning.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

PASADENA - A driver is dead, his female passenger uninjured after he was found with gunshot wounds behind the wheel of a vehicle on Angeles Crest Highway early Saturday morning.

Officers responding to a solo traffic collision on Angeles Crest at mile marker 28.36 found a crashed sedan around 3:21 a.m. The driver, identified as 32-year-old Los Angeles resident Jessie Munoz, died after attempts to revive him. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

Robbery/Homicide units from the Pasadena Police Department believe robbery was the motive for the shooting.

Anyone with information on this shooting is urged to call the Pasadena Police Department at 626-744-4241. Remain anonymous by calling LA Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), through the P3Tips mobile app, or lacrimestoppers.org.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

PASADENA - Police announced the arrest of a man and woman accused of homicide in the October 30 fatal shooting of a Rialto man.

David Lamont Hunt-Cooks, 28, and Brittney Chenise Ruth, 32, are facing one count each of homicide after the Los Angeles County Attorney’s Office formally filed charges January 11. The duo were arrested January 9, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

The duo are accused of their involvement in the death of 22-year-old Martrell Eric Robinson who was shot dead just before 1:30 a.m. October 30, 2022. The shooting took place in the 100 block of Painter Street.

Robbery/homicide detectives from the Pasadena Police Department identified multiple suspects who are connected to a local criminal street gang. A search warrant was served in Pomona January 9 with the assistance of the US Marshall Service, Southwest Fugitive Apprehension Task Force, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

Hunt-Cooks is being held in lieu of $3 million bail. Ruth is being held in lieu of $2 million bail, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

Anyone with information on this case is urged to call the Pasadena police Department at 626-744-4241. Remain anonymous by calling LA Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), through the P3Tips mobile app, or lacrimestoppers.org.

Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

PASADENA – Stunning video was recently released in the investigation into a deadly police shooting of a carjacking suspect.

Adam Youines, a 35-year-old transient from the Montebello area was shot and killed by Pasadena Police as he inched the stolen minivan at officers.

Youines allegedly took a white 2002 Honda Odyssey minivan at gunpoint during a carjacking just before 11:30 p.m. at East Mountain Street and North El Molino Avenue. Two hours later, the minivan was caught on a red light camera speeding through North Garfield Avenue and Via Campo in Montebello, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies found the vehicle a short time later and pursued the driver after he allegedly failed to stop. The reckless driver forced deputies to stop the pursuit at the 605 and I-10 freeways.

Monrovia officers attempted to stop the driver in their city after he was witnessed driving erratically and another pursuit began. The California Highway Patrol assisted with the chase once it entered the freeway.

Monrovia officers chased the suspect for 18 minutes in Pasadena, before Pasadena officers took over the chase. The suspect made attempts at stopping the minivan impossible with his high-speed reckless driving which took the pursuit into opposing lanes multiple times, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

The suspect slowly stopped at a strip mall in the 600 block of North Lake Avenue where officers negotiated with him for eight minutes. The suspect was seen on video supplied by the Pasadena Police Department pointing a handgun at his own head. He repeatedly wanted officers to kill him, even after dispatchers got his mother to speak with him.

Officers blocked all exits from the strip mall and ordered the suspect to surrender, but he inched the minivan at officers stationed at a parking lot exit and officers opened fire, killing Youines at the scene.

PASADENA – A child is without parents now after a man killed his estranged wife, then himself Saturday night, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

The shooting occurred in the 800 block of Merrett Drive. The bodies were located around 10:40 p.m. August 27 and identified as Armando Garcia, 37, and Sylvia Garcia, 29.

Investigators allege Armando, an Altadena resident, arrived to his estranged wife’s residence, shot her and then turned the gun on himself.

The child was unharmed.