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CBS News
22-07-2025
- CBS News
Los Angeles DA Hochman to announce charges against man who drove into crowd outside East Hollywood nightclub
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman is set to announce charges against the man who police say drove into a crowd outside of a popular nightclub in East Hollywood over the weekend. Tuesday's news conference was slated to begin at 3:30 p.m. Fernando Ramirez, 29, was taken into custody after the incident outside of Vermont Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard early Saturday morning. According to authorities, Ramirez made a U-turn and plowed into the large group of people around 2 a.m. The Los Angeles Police Department said it was investigating it as an intentional act. As many as 36 people were injured and seven were in critical condition in the immediate aftermath, the Los Angeles City Fire Department said. All injured people survived with injuries ranging from minor pain to serious fractures and lacerations, the LAPD said. After driving into the crowd, bystanders pulled Ramirez from the vehicle and physically attacked him. A gunman shot Ramirez in his lower back during the chaos, leaving him with injuries that required surgery. Ramirez survived the shooting. The LAPD said on Sunday evening that it was searching for the shooter, who was described as a Latino man between 5-foot-6 and 5-foot-7 and 150-170 pounds. It's not yet clear if Hochman will speak about the shooter during Tuesday's news conference.
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Yahoo
1 dead, 5 injured by ‘intentional' Palm Springs, Calif., car explosion
May 17 (UPI) -- A car explosion killed one and injured five in Palm Springs, Calif., Saturday morning during what local police are calling an "intentional act." The explosion happened in a parking lot at 1199 N. Indian Canyon about 11 a.m. and damaged several buildings, Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills said in a Facebook post. "The blast appears to be an intentional act of violence," Mills said. "The blast field extends for blocks with several buildings damaged - some severely." Mills said the "incident appears to be isolated," and FBI investigators are on the scene. The identity of the deceased person is unknown. The FBI's Los Angeles field office confirmed it is investigating the explosion. "FBI assets being deployed include investigators, bomb technicians and an evidence response team," the FBI Los Angeles said in a post on X. Several medical facilities are located within and near the blast area, including the Desert Regional Medical Center, NBC News reported. Some windows were damaged at the medical center in a medical office building that was facing the explosion, hospital spokesman Rich Ramhoff told the Desert Sun. Although it is open and fully operational, access is limited due to the police response. Hospital officials ask visitors to stay away until full access is restored on local streets. An American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic is located near where the car was parked when it exploded, but none of its employees were injured. ARC officials said no damage occurred to the eggs, embryos and reproductive materials at the fertility clinic. "We are heavily conducting a complete safety inspection and have confirmed that our operations and sensitive medical areas were not impacted by the blast," ARC officials said in a Facebook post. The fertility clinic will be open and fully operational on Monday morning with staff available to address any concerns its clients might have. California Governor Gavin Newsom has been briefed on the explosion, his press office said in a social media post. The state is working with the FBI and local police to support the response to the car explosion.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Yahoo
Car explosion at Palm Springs fertility clinic rocks California desert city
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — An explosion at a fertility clinic in the tony California city of Palm Springs appears to have been intentional, local authorities said. One person was found dead, and the FBI said it was sending investigators, including bomb technicians, to the scene. Palm Springs Police Chief Andy Mills said in a statement Saturday that the blast 'appears to be an intentional act of violence' and that several buildings damaged, some severely. 'There has been one fatality, the person's identity is not known,' Mills' statement said. The act was being investigated as a possible car explosion, said two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss preliminary information from an ongoing investigation. One of the officials told AP that investigators believe the person who died is likely the person who set off the explosion, but cautioned the investigation is still in its early stages. Authorities have not disclosed a motive. Explosion outside Palm Springs reproductive facility was 'intentional act of violence,' mayor says FBI's Los Angeles field office said in a social media post on X that 'assets being deployed include investigators, bomb technicians & an evidence response team.' Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also assisting. The city of Palm Springs said Saturday that the explosion happened at 11 a.m. local time and that residents were being asked to avoid the area around North Indian Canyon Drive near East Tachevah Drive. Dr. Maher Abdallah, who runs the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic, confirmed that his clinic was damaged. He told The Associated Press in a phone interview that all of his staff were safe and accounted for. The explosion damaged the practice's office space, where it conducts consultations with patients, but left the IVF lab and all of the stored embryos there unharmed. 'I really have no clue what happened,' Abdallah said. 'Thank God today happened to be a day that we have no patients.' Aerial footage showed a burned-out car in a parking lot behind the building that housed the fertility clinic's office space. The blast caved in the building's roof and blew a wide debris field across a sidewalk and four lanes of the street on the other side of the structure. Rhino Williams, 47, was chatting with customers at a restaurant he helps manage inside the Skylark Hotel just over a block away from the scene when he heard a huge boom. Everything rattled, he said, and Williams — who has a background in aviation — immediately sprinted to the scene to see if anyone was in need of help, thinking a helicopter might have crashed. Williams saw a large dark gray plume of smoke and covered his nose with his shirt as he smelled burning plastic and rubber. He said he saw a building had 'blown out' into the street, with bricks and debris scattered everywhere, and spotted a car's front axle on fire in the building's parking lot. He said it was the only car in the lot that he saw. He ran into the building, calling out and peering behind the counter to see if anyone was inside. He did not hear a response and did not see anyone behind the counter. Williams said he ran around to check on other nearby buildings. Multiple windows of the neighboring liquor store were also blown out, he said. Once he saw authorities arrive, he headed back to the hotel. Nima Tabrizi, 37, of Santa Monica, said he was inside a cannabis dispensary nearby when he felt a massive explosion. 'The building just shook, and we go outside and there's massive cloud smoke,' Tabrizi said. 'Crazy explosion. It felt like a bomb went off. … We went up to the scene, and we saw human remains.' Palm Springs is a tony community in the desert about a two-hour drive east of Los Angeles. Its known for upscale resorts and a history of celebrity residents. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
