- Good Samaritan killed while trying to help others - Kirk Dowling, 45 was driving down the Ventura Freeway this morning, when he stopped to help someone in a Dodge Caravan on the side of the road. As Dowling walked along the freeway’s south shoulder to the accident scene, Sara Kacee, a 28-year-old, driving a 2004 Honda Element, failed to see the stalled vehicles until it was too late. When she swerved hard to the right, where she first struck Dowling and then his vehicle, which was pushed into the Dodge Caravan. Dowling suffered major head trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Dodge Caravan driver, 29-year-old Gaston Carrizo of Glendale, was not injured. Kacee was not arrested and received minor injuries.
- Homeless accused of torturing cats - A transient with a history of animal abuse is in a San Bernardino County jail, accused of torturing cats. Court documents show Timothy Kooyman, 24, was charged last week with six counts of felony animal cruelty and one count of recklessly causing a fire. Sheriff’s officials say Kooyman was found May 13 in Rancho Cucamonga with two cats that had broken bones and whose tails had been cut off. He later was linked to an arson where a cat had been doused with gasoline, lit on fire and thrown into a field. He was being held Tuesday without bail.
- South LA school evacuated after chemical scare - At 10:45am at Jordan High School in South LA was evacuated today after a student sprayed an unidentified chemical into the hallway of the main building. No one was hit directly with the spray, though seven staff members complained of minor nasal and throat irritation. A county hazardous materials team swept the area, and a Fire Department squad took air samples, walking the building’s two floors and going through each classroom while students waited outdoors. The air samples tested negative for chemicals. “Either [the chemical] had disappeared into the air and become insignificant, or it was something very minor.”
- Mother arrested for taking children with her on drug deals - Enedina Cardona Rodriguez, 36, was arrested Monday afternoon after she left five of her children alone for at least 12 hours and took her two youngest children with her at she went to sell heroin out of her SUV. LeBaron says officers searched the single mother’s two-bedroom apartment and found about $10,000 in cash and $40 in black tar heroin in a baby show and wads of money stuffed into various places. When confronted by police, LeBaron said, Rodriguez remained passive. Police has seen her taking children along with her on drug deals multiple times before. “We’ve seen other kids that were with her, but usually only two at a time,” he said. On Monday, her seven youngest children, five boys and two girls ages 3, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13 and 16, were taken into protective custody. The eldest, an 18-year-old son, doesn’t appear to be involved in the alleged drug dealing and was not taken into custody. Rodriguez is jailed pending $100,000 bond on suspicion of felony drug dealing and cruelty to a child.
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