another hopeless chase

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“Now, Rosaz not only has lost her partner, but also the primary caregiver for her sons, ages 3 and 5. Castillo prepared family meals, always trying to make healthful food. He did the laundry and kept the house clean, Rosaz said.

Her sons are taking the loss hard. Evan, the oldest, has begun having tantrums. Lately, Erik has been listless. Rosaz herself can’t sleep. She has dreams in which Castillo is alive, and she wakes to the reality that he is gone.”

Castillo, a resident of South Los Angeles, was hanging out with friends near the public restrooms on the north side of Echo Park Lake when he was fatally stabbed by a man. The suspect, who is believed to be homeless, may have been angry over the mistaken belief that Castillo and friends were making fun of him, police said.

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The victims were riding on the L.A. River path with their family at around 9 p.m. on when the two suspects demanded their bikes, said detective Larry Burcher with the Northeast Division. After an argument, the suspects shot the cyclists in the legs. One of the suspects rode away on one of the victim’s bikes.

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A computer program used by the county’s Department of Children and Family Services had indicated several times that there was a high risk of abuse against Yonatan, according to social service and police records obtained by the L.A. Times. But social workers determined that “the allegations of physical abuse were inconclusive,” said the Times.

The boy’s mother, Veronica Aguilar has pleaded not guilty to murder and child abuse charges.

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Cruz Tzoc , 23, of Los Angeles, plead no contest to vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in connection with the death of 26-year-old Tomas Brewer, an aspiring screenwriter from Massachusetts. Tzoc was sentenced on Friday by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Fred Wapner.

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Police and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said Tzoca was observed by an officer of the Rampart Division driving about 60 mph on the city streets. Other media reports have pegged Tzoca’s blood-alcohol level at twice the legal limit.

“I can’t put my hands around it,” said Chip Brewer, a retired carpenter and best known hereabouts as the inventor and founder of the Gloucester Soap Co. “At least I can function now. The first couple of days, I was in shock.”

Tomas would have been 27 next month. He first moved to Los Angeles in 2013, not long after graduating from Emerson College in Boston with a major in screenwriting. He wanted to write movies and followed the well-trod path to LA.

“He was a writer,” Chip Brewer said. “He was really creative and wrote a lot of different kinds of things. He was also a cartoonist.”

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