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The officer was one of two injured during a freeway shootout in August — the gunman and another officer were killed. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019.

A man suspected of exposing himself and committing lewd acts in public in Long Beach was behind bars Friday, and police reached out for any potential additional victims.

The parents and brother of a 32-year-old developmentally disabled man killed during a confrontation with an off-duty Los Angeles police officer inside a Corona Costco expressed outrage Thursday over a grand jury decision not to indict the lawman and Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin’s decision to defend the finding, without pursuing any criminal charges.

The Los Angeles police officer who killed a mentally disabled man inside a Costco store in Corona will not face criminal charges.

In a tearful news conference, the Riverside couple wounded when an off-duty Los Angeles police officer fatally shot their developmentally disabled son during what the lawman contends was an act of self-defense at a Costco in Corona decried the shooting Monday and said they presented no danger to the officer.

Saying it has no intention of violating an order issued by a Riverside County judge, the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners declined Tuesday to release surveillance video of a fatal shooting by an off-duty LAPD officer inside a Costco store in Corona.

A Riverside couple wounded when an off-duty Los Angeles police officer fatally shot their developmentally disabled son during a confrontation at the Costco in Corona are battling complications as they gradually recover from their wounds, the family attorney said Wednesday.

A retired LAPD officer pleaded no contest Monday to a single count of possession of child pornography and could face up to three years in prison when he’s sentenced in June.

A young man hoping to break into the music business was shot to death on the Venice boardwalk in the summer of 2015 by a gang member looking to protect his turf, a prosecutor told jurors Monday, while a defense attorney countered that his client was only trying to defend himself from a potentially vicious attack.

A number of California prison inmates who committed violent crimes, including stabbings and shootings, have been granted parole under Proposition 57’s Nonviolent Parole Program, according to records obtained by NBC 4.

An Ontario police officer who made a remarkable recovery shortly after he was shot earlier this month in the Las Vegas massacre was honored Friday at an Anaheim Ducks game.

An Ontario police officer and his fiance, both of whom were shot in the Las Vegas outdoor concert attack, were greeted by members of law enforcement, the fire department and the community Friday afternoon when they returned to Southern California.

A motorcycle driver was taken into custody following a pursuit that started in Whittier and made its way through San Diego County.

A woman who lay among the wounded moaning in pain and others cowering in fear during the San Bernardino terror attack tasted blood and sensed death was near.

A woman who lay among the wounded moaning in pain and others cowering in fear during the San Bernardino terror attack tasted blood and sensed death was near. When she called out to a colleague and asked her to say goodbye to her mother, the other woman tried to assure her she was going to make it. “I’m not, I’m...

Police say a 36-year-old Southern California high school athletic director is jailed in suburban Las Vegas on statutory sexual assault charges after he was found with a runaway 15-year-old girl from his school.

After crime rates fell for more than a decade in Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Chief Charlie Beck confirmed Wednesday they are now on a rise with about a 12 percent increase through the first six months of this year.

A 50-year-old probationer who dubbed himself the “Mission Impossible Burglar” was arrested on suspicion of burglarizing a computer store in Huntington Beach, police said Friday.