Tustin

Police are investigating a verbal and racial attack that was caught on video at a popular Orange County shopping plaza, and the woman in the video believes she was targeted because she asked a man to keep his social distance.

The man used a racial slur in the video, which drew the attention of Congresswoman Katie Porter. Hetty Chang reported on NBC4 News on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020.

Two students from the Southland who attend Harvard are headed to Oxford to study as Rhodes Scholars, it was announced Sunday. Elijah DeVaughn of Compton and Carissa Chen of Tustin were among 32 students chosen for the prestigious honor, which provides all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England.

Elijah DeVaughn of Compton and Carissa Chen of Tustin were among 32 students chosen for the prestigious honor. Video broadcast Tuesday Nov. 24, 2020 on Today in LA.

Their union local counted at least 46 positive cases, and at least one death. She was identified as Gale Ballard, 51, a 20-year phone company veteran.

Workers remain concerned after at least 46 people tested positive for COVID-19 according to the union. Patrick Healy reported on NBC4 News on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020.

Saluting the Class of 2020 from Tustin High School in Tustin.

Tustin is trying to instill trust, with a symbolic gesture. Vikki Vargas reports June 3, 2020.

A 24-year-old man beat a 75-year-old woman in the face, sexually assaulted her and left the victim unconscious and partially nude in the bushes, before stealing the woman’s car and driving off with a 16-year-old girl, Tustin police said Monday. The victim was found, partially nude and unresponsive laying in bushes around 10:30 a.m. on Friday in the 600 block…

Despite social distancing orders throughout Southern California, large crowds gathered to watch a street takeover in Tustin Friday night. Video shows large groups of people standing close together and not practicing social distancing as they cheered on cars doing dangerous street stunts in the middle of an intersection. Drivers took advantage of the empty streets near Del Amo and Valencia…

As seen on Today in LA on Saturday, April 18, 2020.

A 59-year-old resident of a two-story apartment building in Tustin was in custody Thursday on suspicion of setting the predawn five-alarm blaze that damaged or destroyed 38 of the building’s 40 units. Patrick Andrew Ceniceros made incriminating statements while being interviewed by Orange County Fire Authority detectives, according to Lt. Andrew Birozy of the Tustin Police Department. He was arrested about 8:45 p.m....

A 59-year-old resident of a two-story apartment building in Tustin was in custody on suspicion of setting the predawn five-alarm blaze that damaged or destroyed 38 of the building’s 40 units. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020.

Two people were injured and several residents are unaccounted for in a fire that caused a roof collapse early Wednesday at a two-story apartment building in Tustin.

Residents recall dramatic escapes from the apartment building that went up in flames and losing their homes. Now, police believe this fire may be a crime. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020.

 Residents needs to figure out where they will sleep after a huge fire destroys an apartment complex. Vikki Vargas reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m., Feb. 12, 2020. 

A fast moving fire blazed through a Tustin apartment complex early Wednesday morning, injuring two. Toni Guinyard reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020

A fast-moving fire left at least 100 people without homes in Tustin. Toni Guinyard reports for Today in LA on Wednesday Feb. 12, 2020.