A transgender woman was kicked and pummeled on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and some of it was caught on video.
LAPD
The LAPD this week released the security footage of a douchebag in a YSL t-shirt and two to three other winners (one of them is seen smiling) with the hope that someone might recognize them and turn them in:
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An elementary school teacher accused of killing his estranged wife in West Hills was arrested in San Bernardino County shortly after midnight, police tell the Weekly.
Kane via KTLA News.
Details from LAPD headquarters were scarce, but reports indicate that 46-year-old Michael Rodney Kane was tracked to a motel room in Joshua Tree where ...
He was arrested overnight: See the story here.
Seniju
Cops were on the lookout for an estranged husband who forced his way into his wife's West Hills residence over the weekend and killed her, leaving her "lying in the street suffering from multiple stab wounds," according to an LAPD account.
The suspect was identified as 46-year-old Michael Rodney Kane:
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The man believed to be the Santa Monica rampage shooter left a note expressing sorrow for the death of his father and brother, police said tonight.
Zawahri via the SMPD
The also said farewell to some friends and stated that he wished that his mother was taken care of financially, according to Santa Monica police officials:
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Three West L.A. gangsters were charged today in connection with a fatal shooting in Santa Monica.
SMPD
The violence was part of an ongoing rivalry between Santa Monica 13 gang, to which the two victims belonged, we were told, and Sotel (for the Sawtelle community) in West L.A:
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Despite questionable data, the Los Angeles Police Commission approved a controversial LAPD report about the city's hit-and-run crisis on Tuesday. 
Ivan Minsloff
The study now heads to the L.A. City Council's public safety committee, where Councilman Joe Buscaino will decide if LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is doing everything he can to curtail hit-and-runs after intense media scrutiny that was kicked off by the L.A. Weekly cover story "L.A.'s Bloody Hit-and-Run Epidemic."
Hit-and-runs "need to be prioritized," says Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition education director Colin Bogart. "This needs to be really addressed."
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Updated at the bottom with gang-tie information. First posted at 3:48 p.m.
Levy Ernesto Rodriguez via the SMPD
See also: 1 Dead in Santa Monica Gang Attack Near SMC.
Yet another shooting, this one on Sunday, has shaken up a Santa Monica community already saddened by Friday's rampage.
Luckily the victim in Sunday afternoon's attack did not sustain life-threatening injuries, cops say. And now they want you to help find the suspect. Because, police say, they know who it is:
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Updated at the bottom with one dead, possibly two arrested. Headline has changed. First posted at 11:55 a.m.
Highway Patrol Images / Flickr
Two people were shot not far from Santa Monica College this morning, shaking up a community already shocked by Friday's unrelated rampage.
The violence in the 1500 block of Michigan Avenue, a neighborhood long known for its gangs and occasional shootings, was reported at ...
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It didn't take long for nutosphere to pontificate about the possible motives of alleged Santa Monica rampage shooter John Zawahri.
The Santa Monica shooter the SMPD says is John Zawahri.
His family is from the Middle East, therefore he must have been an extremist -- a domestic terrorist with roots in a Western-hating world. Not so:
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The Los Angeles Police Commission will receive a long-awaited report from LAPD Chief Charlie Beck on Tuesday morning about L.A.'s serious hit-and-run epidemic. Judging from a copy of that report, it looks as if Beck is more interested in repairing public relations damage than solving a major public safety problem.
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck
"The report is all spin to get around the elephant in the room," says Don Rosenberg, an L.A. resident whose son was killed by an unlicensed driver and has been keeping close tabs on the LAPD's response to the hit-and-run crisis. "They don't have a good story on hit and runs, and tried to come up with something else."
L.A. Weekly first exposed the controversy in the widely read 2012 cover story "L.A.'s Bloody Hit-and-Run Epidemic," which caught the attention of L.A. City Councilman Joe Buscaino and California State Assemblyman Mike Gatto.
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It wasn't long after the bullets stopped flying that a politician said it was time once more to consider serious gun control legislation.
Courtesy Antony Citrano
Congressman Henry Waxman, who represents much of the L.A. County coastline and the area of Friday's Santa Monica rampage, said over the weekend that "enough is enough" when it comes to mass shootings:
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The death toll in the Santa Monica rampage went up to six today as Santa Monica College announced that 26-year-old Marcela Franco succumbed to her injuries at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
Courtesy Antony Citrano
She was leaving SMC with her father in his SUV when a suspect opened fire, killing 68-year-old Carlos Franco, a longtime groundskeeper at the campus, and initially putting his daughter in critical condition:
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The man who cops say went on a murderous rampage in Santa Monica yesterday was armed with an AR-15-type assault rifle and enough magazines to hold 1,300 rounds, local Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks told reporters this afternoon.
Security video captures suspect entering SMC library; photo via SMPD
The attack that took the lives of four and has one additional victim in "grave" condition was premeditated, she said:
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As many as 
Sgt. Richard Lewis of the SMPD. six four people were killed by a gunman who lost his own life after police confronted him and fatally shot him on the campus of Santa Monica College today.
Here's what appears to have happened:
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A custodian at Santa Monica College reports witnessing a gunman in military-like apparel shooting an elderly woman just outside the campus library today.
Dennis Romero The scene at Santa Monica College this afternoon after a shooting spree that left a half-dozen dead.
Jorge Saldana, 47, says that he was in the library checking fire extinguishers when he saw the Santa Monica College gunman -- who police believe shot five four people in three different crime scenes around Santa Monica before heading to the campus -- come down a staircase, toting his weapon. "To me, he looked like police," Saldana reports. He believes the man was wearing a bulletproof vest. "He was very calm, walking very slow."
Added at the bottom: D.A. Jackie Lacey responds.
Kelly Soo Park.
It was a murder that shocked the Westside:
A 21-year-old aspiring model, Juliana Redding, who once posed for Maxim magazine, was slain in her Santa Monica apartment in March of 2008.
The suspect was a woman, 47-year-old Kelly Soo Park, who was associated with a doctor, Munir Uwaydah, who had business dealings with the victim's dad:
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A man was severely beaten at a downtown Los Angeles club over the weekend, police said. His condition was so grave that homicide detectives have already opened an investigation, the Weekly has learned.
Whisper LA
The attack happened early yesterday at Icon LA Ultra Lounge near Staples Center and LA Live:
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See also: Jogger Dies After She's Attacked by 4 Pit Bulls East of Palmdale.
File photo of a pit bull via maplegirlie / Flickr.
Remember that horrific attack earlier this month by a pack of pit bulls that ended the life of a jogger in Littlerock near Palmdale?
A neighbor who happened to own six pit bulls (and allegedly had a marijuana grow operation at his house when deputies came knocking) was charged this week with murder, cultivating marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale, possession for sale of a
controlled substance, and assault with a deadly weapon, prosecutors said:
When it comes to crimes against the tourism industry, SoCal cops work fast. Anaheim police today announced an arrest in that scary blast yesterday inside the Mikey's Toontown section of Disneyland. 
Disney
And it wasn't a pimpley-faced teenager, as predicted. It was an inside job. Allegedly:
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See our latest here: A Disneyland insider has been arrested in connection with the blast.
Disney
A minor blast inside a Disneyland trash can scared the bejesus out of tourists and locals alike and had authorities temporarily evacuating Mickey's Toontown before they realized how minor tonight's apparent prank was.
Our sister publication OC Weekly was one of the first to break the news of the baby explosion and subsequent evacuation:
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