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story where police in torrance, california, roughly 30 miles away from monterey park are a deadly shooting took place have now surrounded a white van earlier today police described the suspect maybe in a white van. we understand that police have surrounded that vehicle as you see right there with those bear cat vehicles, nose to tail as well as squad cars that are nearby with doors open and officers out of their vehicles. and also los angeles county sheriff's have released an image, three images of what they believe the suspect looks like. and they also calling this person a homicide suspect. and they described earlier in the press conference, it is an asian man and now more detail on this special bulletin image. 5'10", 150 pounds. the shooting took place at a lunar new year festival
welcome back. live pictures right now of these police vehicles that have surrounded a white van. live pictures now. seeing a much more relaxed posture of police that were standing behind the open doors in the squad cars. josh campbell with us now. josh, this vehicle fit it is description of what police say witnesses saw the suspect from last night's shooting in monterey park may have been in a white van. describe now what we are seeing and appears to be a much more relaxed posture of police there. >> reporter: that's right. law enforcement source told me that this van, the standoff on
so they try to keep information close to the vest. so we don't know if they started honing in on a particular vehicle. around the city of los angeles, a lot of squad cars as well are equipped with license plate detectors. so if they were near the scene, more information about the subject vehicle that they were looking for and that included a license plate, all it would take to trip law enforcement, they're interest is for a squad car or a license plate reader around the city to -- that van to drive by that and now to gather realtime information. so those are some of the possibilities. we don't know specific. but again going back to the key point. i could tell you as an example when i was here with the fbi in los angeles. at fbi l.a. headquarters, they had bearkat vehicles and you launch them for specific operations if you're doing a high risk arrest or if you have some type of emergency situation. but they have no know where to
>> instead of sentencing 25 years to life, the judge lowered his bail allowing him to be released. he was come again, rested for failing to appear at his sentencing and additional criminal charges. that same judge released him again. he would not be here today if the judge had done her job. >> todd: a massive line of squad cars escorting cordero's remains to the office were dozens lined up to pay respect. cordero, a ray of sunshine was just 32 years old. a manhunt in georgia accused of killing a sheriff's deputy there. the shooting occurred in atlanta yesterday morning as the officer was minutes from making it home from work. and discover the fallen officer lying dead in his car. the 24-year-old victim his name is being held until his family was notified only had a shield, carley.
be watching our. it was 7:30. an early autumn sun had just begun to take on the honey glow of a long evening. neighborhood kids were still struggling home from soccer practice. >> was it believable to you? >> well. yes and no. because the way that he fell, to me, looked staged. >> to get us to stop, so that they could rob us. >> yeah, we thought it was a setup for us. >> so you didn't know whether he was going to assault you? or whether he was running from that guy for a real? >> exactly. >> then, said trevor and marissa. the masked men retreated in the alley to this garage. >> and that's where he stood. he stood on guard like he was protecting something. >> i said i was getting out of here right now. >> trevor and marissa left the man on the ground pleading for help, like some seasoned method actor. and ran from this twilight zone episode. when they got home, they called the police. so squad cars were on the streets. as it angle toward the horizon. but then, after supper, quiet.
the masked men retreated in the alley to this garage. >> and that's where he stood. he stood on guard like he was protecting something. >> i said i was getting out of here right now. >> trevor and marissa left the man on the ground pleading for help, like some seasoned method actor. and ran from this twilight zone episode. when they got home, they called the police. so squad cars were on the streets. as it angle toward the horizon. but then, after supper, quiet. nothing out of place. nothing amiss. >> that was that. until, weeks later when police came back here looking for johnny altinger. and they wondered, was the guy in the alley, actually johnny, not an actor? a real victim? one of them went downtown to check on a report that was taken from trevor and marissa. and? it did not fit. that call was taken a week before johnny disappeared. besides, no victim ever came forward. no one claimed to have been attacked by a masked man. the whole thing sounded almost like, well, like a scene from a movie. coming up! just maybe, a tv show about a
cook county sheriff said it is the carjacking number of the nation. the numbers are down from last year. 2021 was so bad a spokesman said cook county's numbers doubled new york and l.a. combined. a multi-agency vehicle hijacking task force has been formed with the sheriffs police, city police and suburban agencies and federal government using helicopters and squad cars tracking hijacked vehicles. dispatch center links the communication and gets cops to the scene. cook county says they recover upwards of 80% of the vehicles but catch and prosecute roughly 15% of the hijackers. on the hijacking task force sometimes you have kids doing the hijackings just for a thrill ride. sometimes they sell the cars. most of the time the hijacked car is used for another crime like a drive-by shooting and it can't be traced to the gunman. >> bill: start with the small
congresswoman, she is an advocate for defunding the police but spent half a million campaign dollars towards her own private security. using campaign donations to pay for private security. here is what she said about it. >> they would rather i die? you would rather me die, is that what you want to see? >> suck it up. defunding the police has to happen. >> dana: how do those two things make sense. >> they don't, that's the whole point. can everyone say that now? that doesn't have private security and top end private security? where you defunded the police and no more squad cars driving around or the call time for 911 the 30 minutes so every resident can say did you want me to die? they live in the first world. it is about me, not anything else. defund the police probably raises her a lot of campaign funds but it won't affect her because of her security team.
to break the law or policy but officer went on to say that they will maybe up bogus charges just to get rid of them. >> you know, it takes a balance behind the scenes by good leadership if a mayor is really doing her job, for instance. she will have relationships where she can address that and they don't have to be fighting in public. i mean, this is an embarrassment for the city as they leave. they've bumped other cities more dangerous cities out of the way to take the banner -- the notorious awful violent banner of murderous most murderous city in the united states. what an embarrassment that you can't go behind closed doors to work out difficulty so your citizens don't have to say what you played for the pawns we're waiting for there to be squad cars at least where extreme see them. those cops want to do their jobs. but if you're not going to back them up and you're not paying them or take a portion of their benefits to do nonpolicing
to break the law or policy but officer went on to say that they will maybe up bogus charges just to get rid of them. >> you know, it takes a balance behind the scenes by good leadership if a mayor is really doing her job, for instance. she will have relationships where she can address that and they don't have to be fighting in public. i mean, this is an embarrassment for the city as they leave. they've bumped other cities more dangerous cities out of the way to take the banner -- the notorious awful violent banner of murderous most murderous city in the united states. what an embarrassment that you can't go behind closed doors to work out difficulty so your citizens don't have to say what you played for the pawns we're waiting for there to be squad cars at least where extreme see them. those cops want to do their jobs. but if you're not going to back them up and you're not paying them or take a portion of their benefits to do nonpolicing