Tag: Homeless Stabbings

Parents Sue City, LAPD for Son’s Fatal Stabbing by Homeless Man

February 25, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—The parents of a man stabbed to death in 2021 by a homeless man in Beverly Grove sued the city and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on Feb. 24, alleging the city and the department were already aware of a growing homeless problem in the area and downplayed the concerns of multiple neighbors…

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Homeless Man Charged With Attempted Murder After Territorial-Related Stabbing

February 15, 2022
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WESTMINSTER, Calif.—A Westminster homeless man was charged with multiple felonies after allegedly stabbing another homeless man on Feb. 12 over what appeared to be a territorial dispute, just weeks after being arrested on suspicion of stabbing another homeless man. Sang Van Phan, 47, was charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon other…

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Man Pleads Guilty to Thanksgiving Stabbings of Two Transients

November 1, 2021
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SAN DIEGO—A man who stabbed a pair of homeless people—one fatally—in two separate Midway District attacks on the same day pleaded guilty Nov. 1 to murder and attempted murder charges. Forrest Robert Brantley, 40, is expected to receive a 33 years-to-life state prison term when he is sentenced for the attacks, which occurred on Thanksgiving…

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