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A high school soccer player was tragically shot to death in front of his Winnetka home on Wednesday night, reports KTLA News.

Seventeen-year-old Francisco Rodriquez, a senior at El Camino High School, was returning from a soccer game when the suspect was approached by a teenage girl at his home, according to witnesses. The girl then reportedly lured Rodriguez to his front yard where she shot him several times. Rodriguez later died at the hospital.

A horrific shooting at a Southern California Edison building in Irwindale left two employee victims dead and two in critical condition, reports KTLA News.

Police believe 48-year-old Andre Turner, also an employee at Edison, shot the four victims on Friday afternoon before turning the gun on himself.

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the shooting, but witnesses told KTLA that Turner seemed to be targeting specific people.

“He told people to leave and he was very deliberate about who he shot,” an employee said. “He did not like management.”

One of Death Row Records most famous artists, Tupac Shakur, once wrote in his ode to Los Angeles, To Live and Die in L.A.: “It’s the City of Angels and constant danger.”

For former Death Row Records Vice President John Atterberry, the danger came swift and shockingly as he drove his Mercedes Benz down Vine Street in Hollywood into the path of alleged gunman Tyler Brehm. Police say Brehm opened fire early Friday morning on passing motorists before he was shot and killed himself, according to KTLA News.

A violent encounter with a 300-pound, naked body builder left a Colton couple with critical injuries after he beat them in a suspected “roid-rage”-and-drug-fueled attack, reports The San Bernardino County Sun.

The incident occurred late Saturday when the couple arrived at their North Pennsylvania Avenue home to find 22-year-old Ruben Arzu naked on their porch. While the wife called the police, Arzu allegedly attacked her husband and caused major head trauma and injuries, according to Colton police Cpl. Ray Mendez.

Arzu then reportedly attacked the woman, throwing her and causing facial injuries. Although he tried to flee after the attack, neighbors surrounded the suspect in another home’s backyard.

Dr. Conrad Murray was given the maximum sentence for involuntary manslaughter in the death of patient Michael Jackson on Tuesday, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Murray was sentenced to four years in prison despite the defense’s request that he receive probation.

In addition to paying almost $1,000 in fines and fees for his conviction, Murray was also ordered by Judge Michael Pastor to pay restitution to the Jackson family. However, it will not likely be the prosecution’s requested amount of $100 million, given the state of Murray’s financial affairs.

The fate of Brandon McInerney and closure for Lawrence King's family has finally been reached with McInerney's acceptance of a 21-year sentence plea deal on Monday, reports the Los Angeles Times.

McInerney, who at the age of 14, pulled a gun out of his backpack and shot his classmate Lawrence King in the head in 2008, will serve time until his late-30s. The now-17-year-old has already spent four years in jail, waiting for his fate to be decided during his criminal trial.

After months of pre-trial posturing by attorneys, competing witness testimony, and rabid public speculation, the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray ended with a guilty verdict, reports laist.com.

Murray, the personal physician for mega-pop-star Michael Jackson, was formally charged with involuntary manslaughter after a seven-month investigation. Murray was accused of administering a lethal dose of propofol, a powerful anesthetic, to Jackson, which led to the singer’s death.

Three days after the worst mass killing in Orange County history, accused killer Scott Dekraai made his first appearance in court on Friday. Prosecutors in the Seal Beach shooting trial stated they would seek the death penalty against Dekraai and expect to face an insanity plea from the suspect, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Dekraai is currently charged with eight felony counts of special circumstance first-degree murder and one felony count of attempted murder in connection with the shooting deaths of nine people, including his ex-wife, at a Seal Beach salon last Wednesday.

It seems “Random Task,” the bit character of “Austin Powers” fame, may be capable of random acts of brutal violence off the set. The man who portrays him, Joseph Hyungmin Son, is suspected of killing his sex offender cellmate in a Central Valley prison after he was placed there for torturing a woman in Orange County, reports the Los Angeles Times.

His 50-year-old cellmate was reportedly a sex offender who was sentenced to two years in prison for violating his parole by failing to register with the state sex offender database. His dead body was discovered Monday afternoon at Wasco State Prison Reception Center.

In what has been called the worst mass killing in Orange County history, a gunman opened fire in a salon, murdering eight people on Wednesday afternoon, reports The Orange County Register. The possible motive for the Seal Beach shooting? The suspect may have been in a bitter custody dispute with one of the stylists, potentially throwing the spotlight on the deadliness of domestic violence during what has been proclaimed to be Domestic Violence Awareness month.

Six people reportedly died immediately, while two others died of critical injuries at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. One woman still remains in critical condition.