Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau

The death of a girl whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag off an equestrian trail in Hacienda Heights was ruled a homicide, sheriff’s officials said Friday.

A vigil was held Thursday night for a girl whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag off an equestrian trail in Hacienda Heights.

Strangers in community gathered in honor of a girl whose body was dumped in Hacienda Heights. Police are still trying to identify her.

Authorities Wednesday sought the public’s help to identify a girl between 8 and 13 years old whose body was found partially stuffed inside a duffel bag near an equestrian trail in the Hacienda Heights area.

The body of a child thought to be 7 to 10 years old was found Tuesday near a hiking trail in the Hacienda Heights area, prompting an investigation by homicide detectives.

A man allegedly stabbed his sister and lunged at police officers with a knife, who opened fire and killed the suspect, on Saturday.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department requested information related to the murder of Tristan Beaudette, who was shot and killed on June 22 while camping with his two daughters in Malibu Creek State Park near the 1900 block of Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas.

A man died after he was shot in a front yard of a residence located in an unincorporated area of the county outside Azusa, authorities said Thursday.

Police released a composite sketch Wednesday in hopes of identifying a man wanted in the slaying of an elderly couple in their home in La Verne last month.

Homicide detectives are asking for the public’s help in tracking down the killer of a couple found by a groundskeeper in their home in a gated community. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015.