A jury on Monday found a 26-year-old man guilty of fatally assaulting a Marine reservist in Old Town Pasadena, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

A jury deliberated less than two days before finding Fernando Sabino Ramirez, a Latino from Rowland Heights, guilty of involuntary manslaughter and one count of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, prosecutors said.

Jurors also found true an allegation that Ramirez inflicted an injury that left 25-year-old Joshua Martinez comatose due to a brain injury.

On Aug. 5, 2013, Martinez was with a group of friends at Ix Tapa, a restaurant and bar in the 100 block of East Colorado Boulevard. About 1 a.m., he got into an argument. After leaving the bar with his friends, he was “attacked without provocation,” said Pasadena police Lt. Tracey Ibarra.

After the assault, Martinez was taken to a hospital, where ...

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A 31-year-old man pleaded not guilty last week to gunning down famed tattoo artist and body piercer Michael “Trigz” Pebley during a fight in North Hollywood in October.

Robert Falcon, a Latino from Sylmar, faces one count of murder for allegedly shooting Pebley to death, said Greg Risling, Los Angeles County district attorney's office spokesman.

Falcon was taken into custody Oct. 28 after Los Angeles police detectives received arrest and search warrants.

Police say Falcon was inside Tattoo & Body Piercing in the 6300 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard about 5:50 p.m. Oct. 9 when Pebley entered.

The two men got into an argument, which quickly escalated into a brawl, police said.

After the fight spilled out of the tattoo shop and onto the sidewalk, police said Falcon produced a handgun and shot Pebley.

Falcon ran off and Pebley was pronounced dead at the scene.

Pebley, a father ...

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Two brothers could be sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison after they were convicted on Friday of killing an 18-year-old man at Cleveland High School in Reseda.

Anthony Carpio, an 18-year-old Latino, and Michael Steven Carpio, a 20-year-old Latino, were found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Kevin Orellana, said Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Scott Marcus.

The death occurred after the brothers, who authorities say are members of the Rockwood street gang, approached Orellana as he played handball on campus after school and challenged him as a possible gang rival.

Witnesses said that during the fight, Anthony Carpio stabbed Orellana. The brothers then ran into a getaway vehicle driven by Michelle Pineda, 20, prosecutors said.

Los Angeles police investigators used social-media accounts of the attackers to help piece together the events.

Pineda pleaded no contest on Oct. 20 to being an accessory after ...

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The man was taken to Cedars Sinai in the early morning hours as a John Doe, the victim of a possible assault. He had been discovered between parked vehicles in Hollywood with two black eyes, a bruised face and a laceration on his nose.

A police officer tried to identify him through fingerprinting, but his hands were too swollen. For days, he lay in a hospital bed, unidentified and unconscious.

Wendy Mairena's friend, Ramon Estrada, had been missing for almost a week when she headed out early for the LAPD's Hollywood Community Police Station.

She and a group of friends already had walked nearby streets, passing out fliers, trying to get information on Estrada's whereabouts. The last time anyone had heard from the 36-year-old hotel banquet server was about 1:45 a.m. July 7, when he called his boyfriend of nearly 14 years, Michael Shutt, to ...

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The day before Halloween, Christopher Walker, 26, sat on the patio of an Altadena burger stand off Fair Oaks Avenue about 4:30 p.m.

He'd stopped on his way to pick up his 5-year-old daughter from kindergarten.

A light-colored sedan drove up. A person got out and shot at Walker multiple times. Then the shooter got back into the car and fled east on East Calaveras Street.

"No words were exchanged," said Lt. Holly Francisco with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. It was the first homicide in Altadena, where Walker grew up, since 2012.

So far, investigators are looking for witnesses, and Walker's friends and family are stunned. After a rocky childhood, his parents, Ursula and Richard Walker, thought they had their son back.

"The man who was murdered was not some street thug," his father said.

Christopher Walker had a steady job in marketing ...

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