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Husband shot wife and himself. Deaths of Arcadia couple--Paul Thornton, 58, and his wife Maria Lockwood, 54--ruled murder-suicide. He died of a gunshot wound to the head and she died of a gunshot wound to the chest. They had been married a little over a year. They lived in the block of 600 West Huntington Drive.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2021
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2021
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Deaths
Lockwood, Maria
Murder-suicide
Shootings
Thornton, Paul
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Cherry Liu, a Sierra Madre City employee was murdered August 1 in a tragic murder-suicide in the 800 block of Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia. Her estranged husband Mel Liu died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1
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Mountain Views News
Date
August 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35435AN
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Roberta Reynolds, 39, an English teacher at Temple City High School, was shot by her husband in an apparent murder-suicide.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2007
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p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - suicide
Reynolds, Roberta
Item ID
30528AN
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Hunt continues for gunman in Arcadia car-to-car shooting on the 210 Freeway near Baldwin Avenue which left a woman named Betty Hernandez, 36, of Monrovia, dead. This shut down the freeway for several hours on September 4. On September 5, two people were found dead, in the block of 600 West Huntington Drive, an apparent murder-suicide. Both victims were in their 50s.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 9, 2021
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p. 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 9, 2021
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
Crimes and criminals
Deaths
Hernandez, Bertha
Hernandez, Betty
Murder-suicide
Shootings
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Li Zhu, a 68-year-old Arcadia man suspected in the death of his daughter-in-law, Xiaolin Li, was found dead in his jail cell at Twin Towers Correctional Facility at 450 Bauchett Street in Los Angeles. Deputies found him hanging in his cell, in an apparent suicide.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2014
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p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 11, 2014
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p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Li, Xiaolin
Li, Zhu
Murders
Suicides
Item ID
33924AN
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Attempted murder/suicide by trying to drive off Chantry Flat at Santa Anita Dam. Suspect holed up at the dam house, SWAT called. The suspect, a 21-year-old Los Angeles resident named Patrick Anthony Gonzalez, was arrested by Arcadia police.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 31, 2013
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p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 31, 2013
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gonzalez, Patrick Anthony
Murder-suicide
Item ID
33560AN
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Arcadia Mayor Sho Tay pays tribute to Cherry Liu as the Oct 2 City Council Meeting was adjourned. Liu, 50, who was murdered by her estranged husband August 1, who then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide. Liu was a long-time resident of Arcadia and volunteered for the City of Arcadia, frequently acted as an interpreter for city staff to help bridge the gap between cultures.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 4, 2018
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p. 1, 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 4, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 13
Subjects
Liu, Cherry
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35483AN
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A 90-year-old woman was found dead in her Arcadia home, an apparent murder victim.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Item ID
1379AN
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The coroner's spokesperson Craig Harvey, says an autopsy has confirmed that Li Zhu died of asphyxia, and the death was ruled a suicide. Li Zhu was a 68-year-old Arcadia man found hanging in his jail cell on January 8. He was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his daughter-in-law, Xiaolin Li, in the 900 block of Arcadia Avenue.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 15, 2014
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p. A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 15, 2014
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Li, Xiaolin
Li, Zhu
Murders
Suicides
Item ID
33925AN
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Suspect in Arcadia murder-suicide leaves son a note. Couple was going through contentious divorce. Couple was identified as Mel Liu, 49, and Cherry Liu, 50 year old. Mel Liu left a letter to their 14 year old son trying to explain the fatal steps he took. Cherry Liu was well known through her work at Arcadia Chamber of Commerce and Sierra Madre Senior Services.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2018
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p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35440AN
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Two shot to death Wednesday morning, August 1, in the alley near 816 Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia. Los Angeles Sheriff Department says it looks like a murder-suicide. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the second victim later died at hospital from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Later identified as Mel Liu and Cherry Liu, an estranged married couple.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2018
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p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35434AN
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Authorities identify dead woman found slain at her home in Arcadia as 76-year-old Chyong Jen Tsai. Detectives are still looking for whoever killed the Arcadia grandmother and stole a white Lexus RX300 from the home in the 300 block of East Forest Avenue. Three weeks before the killing, her home had been burglarized. Detectives are not ruling out this connection to the homicide.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
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p. A13
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 11, 2019
Pages
p. A13
Subjects
Biddle, Richard
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Murders
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Item ID
35611AN
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2001 Arcadia homicide suspect, 72-year-old Richard Cole, arrested by Los Angeles Sheriffs Department Homicide and Arcadia Police Department, in the stabbing death of his wife, Charlotte S. Cole. She was killed September 1, 2001 on the 50 block of Las Tunas Drive, in Arcadia.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 8, 2012
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p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 8, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Cole, Charlotte S.
Cole, Richard
Crime and Criminals
Murders
Item ID
33432AN
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The death of retired Pasadena police lieutenant David Henry Richter, 55, of Arcadia, was thought to be a suicide. But now detectives are investigating it as a possible homicide.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 19, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 19, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Deaths
Homicides
Richter, David Henry
Suicides
Item ID
31330AN
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Arcadia police are investigating two separate incidents as possible homicides. One man was shot and killed during a robbery at a motel and a 35 year-old transient woman was found dead at Arcadia County Park.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2004
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 12, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Homicides
Murder
Deaths
Item ID
29380AN
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59-year-old Arcadia resident Marcia Wheeler, was found slumped over the steering wheel of her car with an empty pill bottle next to her.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 16, 2002
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p. A2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 16, 2002
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Wheeler, Marcia
Suicide
Item ID
23133AN
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Richard Robert Russo, convicted in the murder of his wife Carmen, hanged himself with a bedsheet in his cell at Wasco State Prison. He died Sunday, October 15, 2006.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 17, 2006
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 17, 2006
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Russo, Carmen
Russo murder
Russo, Richard Robert
Suicide
Item ID
30427AN
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Judge found that a man was sane at the time of the bludgeoning deaths of his then-estranged wife's two teenage nephews in the boys' Arcadia home. Deyun Shi is on trial for the murders of 15-year-old Anthony Lin, who was asleep when attacked with bolt cutters, and 16-year-old brother William Lin, who was killed while studying in a separate room, on January 22, 2016. Shi was found giulty on two counts of first-degree murder.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2024
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p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2024
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Shi, Deyun
Moses, Jared (Judge)
Murders
Trials
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The body of 41-year-old Monrovia woman Carina Yong-Yi Sun was found in a vehicle at the Los Angeles County Arboretum on January 9, 2012. The cause of death has tentatively been ruled suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2012
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p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 12, 2012
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Suicides
Sun, Carina Yong-Yi
Item ID
32975AN
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Uncle is arrested in Hong Kong. Deyun Shi, 44, boarded a plane Friday after his two 15 and 16 year old nephews were found dead in their home in 400 block of Fairview Avenue in Arcadia. He was being sought in the beating deaths of Anthony Lin and William Lin, of Arcadia, and an attack on his wife in La Canada Flintridge. Both boys attended Arcadia High School. The United States Department of Justice and FBI are working with Hong Kong authorities to initiate the extradition of Deyun Shi.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 24, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Arcadia High School students
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Double homicide
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Murders
Shi, Deyun
Item ID
34622AN
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