Jury selection begins for man accused in 2017 Cathedral City bar shooting
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Thomas Zaragoza, 39, of Desert Hot Springs, is accused of opening fire on Mike Avila following an argument that erupted at what was The Block Sports Bar & Grill at Ramon Road and Date Palm Drive on July 26, 2017. The establishment is now known as Henry s.
Zaragoza is charged with one count each of attempted murder, assault with a gun, assault on a person causing great bodily injury and criminal street gang activity. He also faces several gun- and gang-related sentence-enhancing allegations.
Riverside County Superior Court Judge Timothy Freer summoned multiple panels of prospective jurors for screening at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta. It s unclear how many days the vetting process may take because of new public health protocols that limit courtroom capacity.
Transient Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of Asian Woman
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RIVERSIDE The Riverside Police Department issued the following report on April 3 regarding the fatal stabbing of a 64-year-old woman and the arrest of a suspect.
Although the victim was of Asian descent, the police have not characterized the incident as a hate crime.
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Ke Chieh Meng
This morning just before 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 3, 2021, the City of Riverside’s Public Safety Communications Center received several calls of a woman down on Golden Avenue, just north of Stonewall Drive in the La Sierra neighborhood of Riverside. When Riverside police officers and paramedics with the Riverside Fire Department arrived, they located a woman bleeding from her abdomen area and suffering from stab wounds.
An Asian woman was stabbed while walking her dogs in California. The officers who responded to the scene found the victim on the ground bleeding, according to a New York Post report.
The racism against Asian-Americans and other races has increased due to the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic which started in China. This type of action is condemned by education leaders in the state of California. However, the recent stabbing incident that led to the death of the Asian woman is deemed by the authorities to be not connected to the Asian hate crimes. Instead, the authorities noted that it was a completely random attack.