Suspect John David Corey, 57, also known as Joker , is accused of starting a fire at The San Gabriel Mission as it was undergoing renovations on July 11, 2020, to mark its upcoming 250th anniversary celebration
A man has been charged with setting fire to a historic Roman Catholic church in Southern California last summer, prosecutors announced on Tuesday.
Suspect John David Corey, 57, also known as Joker , is accused of starting a fire at The San Gabriel Mission on July 11, 2020 as it was undergoing renovations to mark its upcoming 250th anniversary celebration.
More than 85 firefighters, 12 engine companies, five truck companies, four rescue ambulances and five battalion chiefs were called to the blaze, according to the San Gabriel Fire Department.
California Supreme Court pulls back woman s death sentence because of judge behavior
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Sandi Dawn Nieves is unlikely to face death when she is resentenced. Life in prison without parole is more likely.Eric Risberg / Associated Press
The state Supreme Court upheld a Los Angeles County woman’s murder convictions Monday for setting a fire that killed her four young daughters in their home while also trying to take her own life. But in a rare reversal, the court overturned her death sentence because of the trial judge’s repeated disparagement of the woman’s lawyer and her witnesses.
Superior Court Judge L. Jeffrey Wiatt told Sandi Dawn Nieves’ public defender that he was wasting the court’s time, called one of his questions “ridiculous,” told jurors he had fined the lawyer for misconduct, and also wrongly barred a psychologist from testifying about Nieves’ mental problems at the 2000 trial, the court said.
The July 2020 blaze scorched the art-covered walls and hallowed roof of the church at a historic Spanish mission in Southern California.
The charred rooftop of the 215-year old church at Mission San Gabriel in Southern California, damaged by a July 11 fire, is visible from the trellis lining the entrance to the mission’s courtyard. (Courthouse News photo / Martin Macias Jr.)
LOS ANGELES (CN) The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged a 57-year-old man Tuesday with sparking a fire last summer that badly damaged the historic Mission San Gabriel church in Southern California.
Prosecutors say John David Corey broke into the 250-year-old Mission San Gabriel on July 11, 2020, and set off a fire in the church that began to swell after 4:20 a.m.
May 2, 2021
There were 60 people murdered in L.A. County as of Feb. 28 – a 186% jump from the 21 killings reported during the same period in 2020, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department told Fox News in a segment that aired Thursday.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva told Fox News criminals are emboldened by District Attorney George Gascón’s progressive policies and stressed that people must understand that such elections will have consequences.
“They need to really pick and choose very carefully because for them it’s very easy to say, ‘Oh yeah, all cops are bad,’ and, ‘Let’s reform and defund the police,’” Villanueva said. “Yet they’re the very first ones to pick up the 911 when someone’s crawling over their back gate trying to get into their house.”
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