🌱 CHP Shooting Suspect Found + Slim 400’s Murder Suspects In Custody

Hello and happy Wednesday; today is National Megalodon Day, which commemorates the day the Aurora Fossil Museum opened in 1978. I'm back in your inbox this morning with the most important things happening these days in Los Angeles. Let's do this.

Trust a K-9 unit to ferret out a hiding suspect in an encampment with little to go on but a smell. Also, is the murder of Rapper Slim 400 solved? Finally, the bribery trial of a Huizar associate is underway.

First, today's weather:

Clouds giving way to sun. High: 84 Low: 64.

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• Valera at 500 S Alameda St., $5.99
• Arco at 5301 W Olympic Blvd., $5.99
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📢 Fireworks Poll!
Fireworks are illegal in the City of Los Angeles. Scofflaws may be fined $500, $1,000, or more. How do you feel about that? Please let me know your thoughts! (As of today, 74.5% don’t want fireworks, 18.2% want “safe and sane fireworks,” 5.5% want to choose what to buy, and another 1.8% don’t care one way or the other.)

Here are the top five stories in Los Angeles today:

1. On Monday evening, a CHP officer was shot and wounded while conducting a traffic stop in Studio City. A search ensued, and a 33-year-old suspect was located in a Van Nuys apartment complex later that evening. When police entering the apartment, the suspect had fled. A K-9 unit entered the search and found him “in a nearby homeless encampment” Tuesday. (KTLA)
2. We learned on Monday that two suspects are in custody for the December murder of Rapper Slim 400. A 33-year-old is charged “with murder and being a felon in possession” while a 42-year-old faces “an accessory charge.” (NBC)
3. Tuesday morning saw the beginning of a bribery trial involving a real estate developer's dealing with former Councilman José Huizar. The defendant allegedly paid the councilman “$500,000 in cash in 2017 in exchange for Huizar's help to resolve problems with the labor union.” (Huizar is scheduled to go on trial in February.) (Patch)
4. Beginning Thursday, you have the opportunity to visit the Powamekka Café at L.A. Live. Put on by the estate of Tupac Shakur, it will serve meals until June 30. It creates a setting that allows guests to “play and parlay.” On the menu are “comfort food favorites like gumbo, fried chicken wings and meatloaf.” (LA Eater)
5. Mark your calendars! Los Angeles will hold its 37th Annual Kingdom Day Parade on June 20. You may remember that the January celebration had to be postponed due to COVID-19. The event begins at 10 a.m. and starts “on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and Western Avenue and will proceed west to Crenshaw Blvd. and then South thereupon to Vernon Ave.” Congresswoman Karen Bass serves as this year’s Grand Marshal. (CBS)

Today in Los Angeles:

• Tied Up in Knotts Author speaks at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club (7 a.m.)
• Wonderful Wednesday Storytime at the Miraleste Library (10:15 a.m.)
• Friends of the Fairfax Library Book Sale (noon)
• National Resume Workshop Webinar with the Music Forward Foundation (noon)
• All Things Comedy at the Hollywood Improv (10 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is saddened to announce the passing of retired Commander Charles "Sid" Heal, who passed away on May 24. Commander Heal joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 1977. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department via Facebook)
• The annual Lunch at the Library program is back for the summer 🥪🍎🥛 Kids and teens 18 and under can pick up meals on a first come, first served basis at select libraries. See dates and locations. (County of Los Angeles via Instagram)
• Our Bundy Westgate neighbor has a question about a recent hire with Taskrabbit. They have this "Trust and support" hourly fee added to the hourly fee of the tasker. (Nextdoor)
• Los Angeles County First District Supervisor Hilda Solis, in partnership with the LA Regional Food Bank, will be hosting a drive-thru-only food distribution in East LA. Date: Wednesday, June 22 Time: 9 a.m. - noon. Location: 337 N. Mednik Ave. (Nextdoor)
• A City Terrace Northeast neighbor has a retaining wall and fence that were destroyed by an SUV a few months ago. They're looking for a contractor to repair or replace it with six feet of concrete wall with a stucco finish and a metal fence topper, and a new pedestrian door. (Nextdoor)

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— Sylvia Cochran

About me: Sylvia Cochran works out of sunny Southern California and has been freelance writing full-time since 2005. She loves dogs, cats, books, plays Best Fiends (don't judge), embraces social justice, and tries to live out Micah 6:8.

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