Written by AARON CASTREJON
CityWatch Editor

PASADENA - Pasadena City College police officers reportedly used force to subdue and detain a suspect accused of sexually assaulting a male on a bus October 9.

The suspect reportedly followed the victim after the assault onto the Pasadena City College campus, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd. although the victim was allegedly sexually assaulted, he declined medical attention, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Transit Services Bureau.

The suspect, who was not identified, was arrested on suspicion of sexual battery and transported to the Pasadena Police Department jail for booking.

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 - Detectives are searching for a man who sexually assaulted a woman after he entered the vehicle she was sitting in.

The assault occurred around 8:40 p.m. Saturday, April 13 near Sierra Madre Villa Avenue north of Foothill Boulevard.

After entering the woman’s vehicle, the suspect threatened her with a knife and forced her to drive to a new location where he assaulted her, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

The suspect fled after the victim fended him off.

The suspect is described as a Black man in his 30s to 40s. He stands 6 feet tall, is heavyset, wore a black face mask, wore a gray hooded raincoat, light blue jean pants and black shoes. He also had a distinct raspy voice. He carried a folding knife, according to the Pasadena Police Department.

Anyone with information leading to the suspect 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 - No injuries were reported after a fire engulfed a vacant house Thursday night.

Firefighters successfully extinguish flames within 25 minutes arriving to the 700 block of East Villa Street, preventing the spread of fire to nearby trees and homes. First responders were sent to the house around 7:39 p.m., according to the Pasadena Police Department.

“The residence was found to be vacant, having been boarded up, and no occupants were discovered inside. Given the circumstances, an Arson Investigator promptly arrived at the scene,” according to the Pasadena Police Department in a written statement.

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 - 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 - Officers have an apartment complex surrounded and believe a suspect is barricaded inside after finding a shooting victim Monday morning.

Authorities are asking people to avoid a quarter-mile radius around Raymond Avenue and Del Mar Boulevard as police continue to work the scene.

Police responded to the apartment complex, which is adjacent to the A Line Del Mar Station, on a reported shooting. A female victim was found unresponsive at the scene. Information on her current condition is not readily available, according to Lisa Derderian, Pasadena public information officer.

There was no train service running to the Delmar station. Shuttle buses replace train service between Fillmore and Memorial Park, according to do you Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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.