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.

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.

PASADENA – Detectives released a single image of what they described as the getaway vehicle used in a murder from three months ago.

A white four-door SUV was caught on surveillance video fleeing south on Fair Oaks Avenue around the time a man was fatally shot May 2 around 8:42 p.m. Eric Lynn Thomas, 28, was found shot to death at an apartment complex, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

Pasadena officers were called to the common area of an apartment complex in the 1700 block of North Fair Oaks Avenue to the shooting. Officers also received notifications from the City’s ShotSpotter gunfire detection system, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

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

PASADENA – One suspect was arrested, two others were sought after an 82-year-old man was fatally stabbed in a Pasadena neighborhood Wednesday.

Officers responded to a home in the 1000 block of North mentor Avenue for an assault with a deadly weapon call July 6 and discovered a man deceased with stab wounds around 2:16 p.m. Officers somehow obtained a suspect vehicle description and located the vehicle parked at a nearby commercial area, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

The victim, who suffered multiple stab wounds, was identified as Glenn Calvin, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

The suspect in the vehicle was spotted just after 3 p.m.

The suspect was found at a Target shopping center, 3121 E. Colorado Blvd., in East Pasadena. As a precaution, the Target was evacuated while the suspect in the vehicle was taken into custody. The suspect’s name was not provided.

The motive for the killing remains either unknown, or has not yet been publicly released. Authorities have not released descriptions for the two other suspects.

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

PASADENA – Detectives are seeking public help in identifying anyone responsible for assaulting and burning alive a man found gravely wounded January 1, 2021.

The Pasadena Police Department revealed that Ulises Nieto-Cabrera, 30, was targeted and intentionally set ablaze. Detectives want to speak with the persons whom they said have “intimate knowledge of Nieto-Cabrera’s murder.”

Police were called to the 700 block of Rockwood Road New Year’s Day 2021 at 8 a.m. to a report of a man down. Nieto-Cabrera was found bloodied and severely burned. He later died at a hospital.

Anyone with information on this murder is urged to call the Pasadena Police Department at 626-744-4241. Information can be provided anonymously 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 - A male adult died from apparent gunshot wounds in the 1700 block of North Fair Oaks Avenue Monday night.

Police were called around 8:42 p.m. to the location for a person down May 2. The city’s brand new Shot Spotter system also alerted police of multiple gunshots, according to Lt. Marsha Taglioretti of the Pasadena Police Department.

“When our officers arrived they did find one person down, a male adult, and he was deceased,” Taglioretti told SGV CityWatch.

Pasadena Police detectives have been notified and will be taking over the investigation. There is no suspect description yet available, Taglioretti told SGV CityWatch.