A Latino in his 30s was shot dead by Santa Ana police during a Sunday night altercation that also injured an officer, according to the O.C. Register.
SAPD police officers in a patrol car found the man in a parked, white truck in the parking lot of a strip mall on Edinger Avenue and Sullivan Street at about 11:30 Sunday night, according to the SAPD. Continue reading
A Santa Ana Unified School District employee driving a work box truck struck and killed a 13-year-old bicyclist named Priscilla Vallejo, on Monday morning, before 7:50 a.m., as she was in a crosswalk on the West Edinger Avenue and South Center Street intersection, causing officials to close a major street for at least six hours, according to the O.C. Register.
Police officers and OCFA paramedics performed CPR on the victim, but they were not successful. She died at the accident location due to “severe injuries to the head and chest.” Continue reading
A man in his 20’s was found shot to death on a Santa Ana sidewalk late Sunday in what police are investigating as a gang-related attack, according to the OC Register.
The shooting is thought to have taken place at around 8:45 p.m. in the 1400 block of South Center Street, near Diamond Elementary School.
Santa Ana police investigators indicated that the shooting might be gang-related. They also believe more than one person attacked the man and then fled on foot. Continue reading
