Violent Crime Stats Spike Near Dodger Stadium As Ball Club Kicks in $25,000 for Info in Stow Beating

The Dodgers stepped up late Monday and sweetened the pot, adding their own $25,000 reward to the $25,000 already offered for information about the suspects in the assaults on Bryan Stow and his two companions Thursday.

[Ed: On Tuesday, the Los Angeles City Council added a $50,000 contribution, bringing the total reward to $100,000.]

As of Monday, Bryan Stow remained in the hospital with critical injuries to the head, while his friends were released with minor injuries. The three are paramedics in Northern California who had come to visit Los Angeles for the game.

Police released composite sketches of the suspects Friday. (See accompanying gallery.)

The Dodgers' reward comes as data  from the Los Angeles Police Department--and mapped by the Los Angeles Times--showed Thursday night’s incident helped push weekly violent crime stats abnormally high near Chavez Ravine.

Four violent crimes were reported for the week, all of them occurring on March 31 between 8:25 p.m. and 9:15 pm on Thursday in Elysian Park.  According to the LAPD database, three aggravated assaults took place along Elysian Park Avenue at 8:25 p.m., while a fourth was situated at  Stadium Way and the Golden State Freeway at 9:15 p.m. Genevieve Bravo of the Northeast Divison confirmed that the incidents at 8:25 p.m. were all related.

The four crimes came as Elysian Park was averaging about 0.1 violent crimes per week over  the last three months. A total of three property crimes were also reported last week. Two were car break-ins.

In adjacent Echo Park, just one violent crime was reported between March 26 and April 1, while property crimes  jumped to 17 compared to an average of 12.4  per week over the last three months.  Three reports of grand theft auto and seven car break-ins were among those reported.

Silver Lake actually saw a dip in property crimes, with 10 reported between March 26 and April 1, compared to a weekly average of 14.5 over the last three months.  According to the data, the area had gone six consecutive days without a violent crime report.

In Elysian Valley, along the L.A. River, no violent crime and no property crimes were reported between March 26 and April 1.

The suspects in the assaults on 42-year-old Stow and his companions are described as two male Hispanics between the ages of 18 and 25 wearing Dodger clothing. 

They reportedly made a getaway in a light-color, four-door sedan, driven by a young woman about five-foot-three and in her 20s.

They reportedly grabbed Stow from behind and pulled him to the ground, beating and kicking him.

According to LAPD Northeast Division detectives, Dodger fans tried to stop the attack, but they did not stop the suspects from driving away.