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Noah Beard and Angel Nanu Uriarte Charged For 6 Murders

Noah Beard and Angel Nanu Uriarte are two gang members from California who are charged in the massacre of a family leaving six people dead. According to police reports Noah Beard and Angel Nanu Uriarte would go to a home and allegedly murder Rosa Parraz, 72; Eladio Parraz Jr, 52; Jennifer Analla, 49; Marco Parraz, 19; Alissa Parraz, 16; and Nycholas Parraz, 10 months.

Police from Goshen California rushed to the scene believing they were responding to an active shooter but instead they would find the bodies of the six victims who were all fatally shot in the head. The investigation to find the two gang members took a bit but Noah Beard would be taken into custody and following a shootout with investigators Angel Nanu Uriate would be transferred to the hospital with gunshot wounds and remains under police guard.

California does have the death penalty however it has been nearly twenty years since the last execution and basically it is nonexistent

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Two gang members were arrested early Friday, one after a gunbattle, in the January massacre of six people including a baby at a central California home associated with a rival gang, the Tulare County sheriff said.

Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said Noah David Beard, 25, was taken into custody and Angel Nanu Uriarte, 35, was wounded in the shootout with federal agents and was undergoing surgery, but was stable and expected to survive.

“I’m happy we were able to put these two men behind bars,” the sheriff said.

The suspects and members of the victims’ family have a long history of gang violence but the motive for the shooting “is not exactly clear,” Boudreaux said at a news conference at the sheriff’s headquarters in Visalia.

The Tulare County District Attorney’s Office charged both suspects with six counts of murder and other crimes. They face a potential sentence of the death penalty or life in prison without parole, prosecutors said.

The six victims, including a teen mother and her baby, were gunned down on Jan. 16 in rural Goshen, a community of 3,000 in the San Joaquin Valley.

Authorities said both suspects had been under around-the-clock surveillance since Jan. 23 in a massive investigation that culminated in Friday’s arrests and involved sheriff’s detectives, prosecutors, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other law enforcement agencies.

Search warrants were served at locations in Goshen and Visalia, and about eight inmate cells associated with the Nuestra Familia prison gang were searched in five state prisons, Boudreaux said.

He said sheriff’s authorities waited until they had DNA evidence to make the arrests to bolster the case. No further details of the evidence were provided.

Both suspects had prior run-ins with the law. Uriarte was convicted in 2015 of assault with a firearm in association with a street gang, and Beard had juvenile convictions, prosecutors said in the court filing.

The victims were identified as: Rosa Parraz, 72; Eladio Parraz, Jr., 52; Jennifer Analla, 49; Marcos Parraz, 19; Alissa Parraz, 16; and Nycholas Parraz, 10 months.

A surveillance video released by authorities Friday showed a teenage girl running outside and placing a baby on the other side of a fence, then jumping over it herself. Authorities said Beard shot and killed the teen and baby, who were both found dead in the street, shot in the back of the head.

Among the adult victims was a woman who was found kneeling and shot in the head, authorities said.

The sheriff has said Alissa Parraz had just been awarded full custody of her son after he spent months in the foster care system. The two were reunited on Jan. 13 — three days before they were killed.

The shooting was reported by a woman who called 911 during the violence. She is heard on a recording released by authorities frantically telling a dispatcher that her boyfriend was shot and that the shooters were still there.

“They’re coming back,” she said. “Please hurry, please!”

The Goshen killings were part of a violent and deadly month in California.

On Jan. 21, a shooting at Monterey Park dance hall killed 11 and wounded nine. The gunman later killed himself. On Jan. 23, shootings at two Half Moon Bay farms killed seven and wounded one before the suspect was arrested.

https://ktla.com/news/california/2-arrested-in-central-valley-shooting-that-left-6-dead/

Dharmesh Patel Charged With Attempted Murder By Driving Off Cliff

Dharmesh Patel is a man from California who has been charged with attempted murder for driving his Tesla off a cliff with his wife and two children inside. According to police reports Dharmesh Patel drove his Tesla off a cliff that was 250 feet high. Somehow everyone in the car survived the brutal crash but now Dharmesh Patel is in a lot of trouble as he has been charged with multiple counts of attempted murder. On top of that Dharmesh Patel is also facing domestic violence charges against his wife and young daughter

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A man who the United States authorities say deliberately drove his family off a cliff in Northern California early in January was charged on Monday with three counts of attempted murder, court records show.

The man, Dharmesh A. Patel, 41, was arrested after the crash on suspicion of attempted murder and child abuse after his Tesla careened more than 76m off a treacherous cliff with him, his wife and two children inside, the authorities said.

Remarkably, all four survived with non-life-threatening injuries after emergency workers rescued them from the rubble.

But as details emerged from witnesses and from evidence gathered at the crash site, the authorities said, it quickly became clear that the crash had been no accident.

Patel, they said, had intentionally steered the car from the rocky bluff, and would be taken to San Mateo County Jail after being released from the hospital.

He was to be arraigned on Monday on charges of attempted murder, a spokesman for the San Mateo County Court said.

He is also accused of causing great bodily harm and committing domestic violence against his wife and seven-year-old daughter, state court records show.

Efforts on Monday to reach Patel’s lawyer were not immediately successful.

Emergency responders had been stunned that the family had survived the Jan 2 crash after they extracted Patel, his wife and two children from their mangled white Tesla.

The car had careened off a stretch of Highway 1, about 32km south-west of San Francisco, and smashed into the rocks abutting the Pacific Ocean, the authorities said at the time. The area is often referred to as Devil’s Slide.

Luckily, the car landed upright on its wheels, the authorities said, making the passengers easier to reach through the side windows.

It was very unusual, they said, for anyone to survive a crash of such magnitude.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/father-who-drove-family-off-us-cliff-charged-with-attempted-murder

Robert Jacob Pleads No Contest To Sex Crimes

Robert Jacob is the former Mayor of Sebastopol California who has just plead no contest to a host of sex crimes involving an underage boy. According to the victim he met Robert Jacob on Grindr and the former Mayor Robert Jacob knew how old he was. The victim would testify that he had multiple encounters with Robert Jacob who would also bring other men into the encounter.

Robert Jacob would be arrested and had been charged with an assortment of sex crimes. Ultimately Robert Jacob would make a deal with prosecutors and plead no contest to ontacting the victim with the intent to commit a specific offense, arranging to meet the victim to engage in lewd and lascivious acts and committing acts of sexual abuse against a victim under age 15. Robert Jacob will be sentenced later this year

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Former Sebastopol Mayor Robert Jacob pleaded no contest to six counts of child sex crimes and will be sentenced to seven years in prison and spend the rest of his life as a registered sex offender.

Jacob, 45, was scheduled for a jury trial Friday, but during a readiness conference last week he reached a plea deal with the Sonoma County District Attorney’s Office, said Andrew Lukas, the chief deputy district attorney.

In a March court hearing, the victim, who is a minor, testified that he met Jacob through the Grindr dating app. He said Jacob knew he was underage, but touched him sexually multiple times, sent him nude photos and invited unknown men to have sex with him.

Jacob pleaded no contest to procuring a child for lewd or lascivious acts; lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 15; sexual penetration with a foreign object; distribution or showing of harmful matter; contact or communication with a minor with the intent to commit a specified offense; and unlawfully arranging to meet a minor to engage in lewd and lascivious acts.

He also admitted to several aggravating factors: the victim was particularly vulnerable; he induced others to participate in the crime; and he carried out the crime with a manner indicative of planning, sophistication or professionalism.

Five charges were dismissed based on the plea bargain, Lukas said.

Jacob, who founded a medical marijuana dispensary Peace in Medicine, was elected to the City Council in 2012.

In 2013, he was selected as mayor, making him one of the first mayors in the nation with a background in the medical marijuana industry.

In March 2016, Jacob took a leave of absence from office to care for his ailing mother. He also stepped down from his leadership position with Peace in Medicine, which merged with another dispensary in 2017.

The case came to light in 2021, when someone, possibly the victim or his parents, reported the sexual assaults to child protective services, which relayed them to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office, said Sebastopol Police Chief Ron Nelson.

Because the assaults, which occurred between December 2019 and March 2021, took place in Jacob’s home in Sebastopol, they were referred to Sebastopol police, who arrested him on April 10, 2021, Nelson said.

The District Attorney’s Office would not comment on the case before the sentencing, Lukas said.

Jacob’s attorney, Chris Andrian, did not return calls seeking comment.

Jacob is scheduled to be sentenced March 23 before Judge Christopher Honigsberg.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/former-sebastopol-mayor-pleads-no-contest-to-child-sex-crimes-reaches-deal/

Chunli Zhao Murders 7 In California

Chunli Zhao is a man from California who would murder 7 fellow farm workers in Half Moon Bay. According to police reports following a disagreement at work Chunli Zhao would murder four people at the Concord Farms, and three more Mountain Mushroom Farms two miles away. Chunli Zhao would be quickly arrested and taken into custody. This latest mass shooting is just 24 hours removed from 11 people being shot and killed by Huu Can Tran at a dance studio in Monterey Bay

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Seven people were killed in a mass shooting that spanned two separate scenes in Half Moon Bay Monday afternoon, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.

Four victims with gunshot wounds were found dead at about 2:22 p.m. at a nursery along the 12700 block of San Mateo Road (Highway 92), the sheriff’s office said. Another shooting victim was taken to Stanford Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

Shortly after that discovery, three more shooting victims were found dead at another nursery along the 2100 block of Cabrillo Highway South, according to the sheriff’s office.

Authorities identified the suspect as 67-year-old Half Moon Bay resident Chunli Zhao. He was taken into custody without incident at about 4:40 p.m. after he was found in his vehicle in the parking lot of the sheriff’s office substation in Half Moon Bay, the sheriff’s office said. A semi-automatic handgun was found in his car.

Zhao shot three of his victims in the trailers where they lived next to the field where they worked, and then gunned down two others in the field itself, officials said.

“They were farmworkers affected tonight. There were children on the scene of the incident. This is truly a heartbreaking incident in our community,” said Supervisor Ray Mueller.

Authorities believe Zhao acted alone, San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus said. A motive for the shooting spree wasn’t immediately known.

The victims are believed to be workers on the properties, Corpus said. Half Moon Bay Councilmember Debbie Ruddock said the victims are Chinese farmworkers.

“This is a devastating tragedy for this community and the families touched by this unspeakable act of violence,” Corpus said.

A family reunification center was set up at IDES Hall, which is located at 735 Main St. in Half Moon Bay.

The shootings in Half Moon Bay come on the heels of a weekend mass shooting in the Southern California city of Monterey Park that left 11 people dead.

“This kind of shooting is horrific,” Corpus said. “It’s a tragedy that we hear about far too often, but today it’s hit home here in San Mateo County.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he was meeting with victims of the Monterey Park shooting when he learned about the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay.

“Tragedy upon tragedy,” he said in a tweet.

Other local, state and federal leaders issued similar sentiments.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/deadly-shootings-half-moon-bay/3137085/

Monterey Park Shooter Huu Can Tran Commits Suicide

Huu Can Tran the man police believes is responsible for the Monterey Park shooting that left ten people dead would commit suicide when surrounded by police. According to police reports Huu Can Tran who police describe as a 72 year old dance teacher at the Star Ballroom in Monterey Park California would open fire at the same dance studio killing ten people and injuring ten more before fleeing in a van. Huu Can Tran would head to a nearby hospital for treatment when he was surrounded by police and would take his own life with the same illegal automatic weapon.

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California authorities have identified the suspect in Saturday’s mass shooting that killed 10 people and injured 10 others at a ballroom during Lunar New Year celebrations.

Los Angeles Sheriff Robert Luna identified the suspect as 72-year-old Huu Can Tran.

The identification came hours after the suspect shot and killed himself in a white van in Torrance, about 30 minutes from the shooting location in Monterey Park. Authorities said it was the same van the suspect had used to flee Saturday night’s shooting.

Law enforcement officials surrounded the van with tactical vehicles and bomb squad trucks earlier Sunday before entering the vehicle. Luna said several pieces of evidence – including a handgun – were found inside the van linking the suspect to the shooting scene.

Luna said no other suspects are at large and there was “no longer a threat” to the community. Authorities have not provided a motive saying the investigation is ongoing.

Seven people remain hospitalized, Luna said. He did not have the exact ages of the victims but said they all appeared to be over 50.

“I still have questions in my mind, which is: What was the motive for the shooter? Did he have a mental illness? Was he a domestic violence abuser? How did he get these guns and was it through legal means or not?” said Congresswoman Judy Chu, who spoke alongside Luna at Sunday evening’s press conference outside Monterey Park City Hall.

Luna said the shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park left five women and five men dead and wounded another 10 people. Then 20 to 30 minutes later, a man with a gun entered the Lai Lai Ballroom in nearby Alhambra.

The suspect entered the Alhambra club with a gun, and people wrested the weapon away from him before he fled, Luna said.

Monterey Park is a city of about 60,000 people on the eastern edge of Los Angeles and is composed mostly of Asian immigrants from China or first-generation Asian Americans. The shooting happened in the heart of its downtown where red lanterns decorated the streets for the Lunar New Year festivities. A police car was parked near a large banner that proclaimed “Happy Year of the Rabbit!”

The celebration in Monterey Park is one of California’s largest. Two days of festivities, which have been attended by as many as 100,000 people in past years, were planned. But officials canceled Sunday’s events following the shooting.

The shooting occurred at Star Ballroom Dance Studio, a few blocks from city hall on Monterey Park’s main thoroughfare of Garvey Avenue, which is dotted with strip malls of small businesses whose signs are in both English and Chinese. Cantonese and Mandarin are both widely spoken, Chinese holidays are celebrated and Chinese films are screened regularly in the city.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-police-identify-gunman-monterey-attack-killed-10-people-injured-10-others-mass-shooting