Downey

Saluting the Class of 2020 from Warren High School in Downey.

Porto’s Bakery and Cafe has decided to close its Downey location “out of an abundance of caution” after three team members tested positive for COVID-19. The popular Cuban cafe said the closure is not required, but they’re taking the voluntary measure “even though these employees had been self-quarantined and not reported to work since prior to being tested.” The...

A good Samaritan was killed while trying to help the driver of a disabled vehicle on the southbound Santa Ana (5) Freeway in Downey, authorities said Friday night. The accident occurred just north of the Lakewood Boulevard exit about 11:20 p.m. Thursday, according to the California Highway Patrol Officer M. DuLong. A Mitsubishi Lancer became disabled in traffic lanes after…

Police Sunday identified one of the people killed in a crash on a Santa Ana (5) Freeway off-ramp in Downey that left two dead, as well as the suspect accused of causing the fatalities. The suspect was identified as Cash Rencanzone, of Peoria, Arizona, who has been charged with felony hit and run. Authorities said dashcam video helped lead to…

The CHP says the deadly crash is a possibly hit-an-run, as seen on NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, 2020.

A jury on Monday recommended the death penalty for a man convicted of shooting and killing three people and wounding two others after responding to an ad for a used car, prosecutors said. The same jurors last month found Jade Douglas Harris, 37, guilty of three counts of murder and several other chargers including attempted murder and kidnapping. According to…

Two Montebello men pleaded guilty Monday to the 2015 slaying of a Downey police officer who was shot once in the face while sitting in his BMW in a parking lot near the police station. Steven Knott, 22, and Jeremy Anthony Alvarez, 25, are set to be sentenced April 17 for the Nov. 18, 2015, slaying of Officer Ricardo Galvez….

Two men convicted of more than 200 counts in a fraudulent scheme related to their work for a engineering firm in Rolling Hills Estates were each sentenced to one year in county jail and five years probation on Monday. Wilfrido Rodriguez, 48, of Downey, and Ruben Gutierrez, 45, of Huntington Beach, were found guilty in November of more than 200…

A parolee was convicted Thursday of murdering three people and trying to kill two others in Downey about 7 1/2 years ago while pretending to be interested in buying a Chevrolet Camaro. Jurors in the trial of Jade Douglas Harris were ordered to return to a Norwalk courtroom next Tuesday for the start of the trial’s penalty phase, in which…

A 23-year-old Downey man was charged with murder Monday for allegedly fatally beating his 6-year-old godson the day after Christmas. Tyler D’Shaun Martin Brand was expected to be arraigned Monday afternoon in Downey on charges of murder and assault on a child causing death. Prosecutors said Brand had been caring for the boy for several days over the holiday...

“It will never be the same without seeing that joyful face,” said Virginia Sewell, the victim’s great aunt. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30 2019.

A candlelight vigil will be held Saturday outside the South Los Angeles home of the grandmother of a 6-year-old boy who was fatally beaten, allegedly by an acquaintance of his mother. Dayvon Taylor of Long Beach was taken to St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach Thursday and died shortly after he arrived, according to coroner’s Investigator Kristy McCracken...

The vigil was held outside the boy’s grandmother’s house in Downey.

“My child was very innocent… he didn’t have a chance to even enjoy his Christmas this season,” the boy’s father said.

The Downey Unified School District’s sex education curriculum has drawn criticism from a Massachusetts-based group that is identified as a anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News at 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019.

A female robbery suspect was arrested after trying to flee police by climbing onto a building and jumping from rooftop to rooftop after a car chase ended Wednesday in Bell Gardens.

A man who allegedly shot and killed an acquaintance during an argument in Downey in 2015 has been arrested in Mexico and extradited to the United States to face murder charges, police said Tuesday.

Two men were injured on Monday when the car they were in crashed into a tree, a utility box and into a business in a Downey strip mall, authorities said.

Two men who were believed to have been speeding plowed into a Downey store, injuring them both. Michelle Valles reports for Today in LA on Monday, Aug. 26, 2019.

A Downey man was arrested Thursday in connection with more than 50 criminal charges stemming from the sale of 28 puppies — most of whom subsequently died, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.