New York rapper Pop Smoke was killed in a shooting during a home invasion early Wednesday at a Hollywood Hills home, multiple sources tell NBC News.

Family and marriage therapist Amie Harwick died due to blunt force injuries to her head and upper body, according to a coroner’s report released Tuesday.

LAPD Chief Michel Moore says some officers have already begun to receive new training on when a person’s name can be added to a statewide police database of gang members, following the NBC4 I-Team report that a group of officers is under investigation for allegedly filing false information that labeled innocent citizens as gang members. Representatives of the California...

A man suspected of groping at least a dozen female students near campus was detained on Friday, officials said. The suspect was taken into custody about 3 p.m. near the intersection of Grand Avenue and Adams Boulevard in South Los Angeles, according to Officer Tony Im of the Los Angeles Police Department. The suspect is allegedly involved in over a…

A Los Angeles Police Department officer was arrested Monday for allegedly stealing money from a woman’s backpack while officers were conducting enforcement of an illegal cannabis grow facility. A worker at the facility notified an LAPD supervisor that money was missing from her backpack. The supervisor secured the scene and reviewed footage from cameras installed inside the building. The...

A teen boy was hospitalized with stab wounds after a chaotic confrontation Thursday with other students near a Southern California middle school. Video of the fight near Mulholland Middle School in Lake Balboa shows a group surrounding a holding what appears to be a sharp object, possibly a pair of scissors. A witness told NBC4 he saw the group chasing…

The Los Angeles Police Department supervisor who fatally shot an unarmed man near the border between Los Angeles and Culver City mistook a bicycle part in his hand for a gun, police reported Friday. Police received a call around 12:40 p.m. Saturday about a “man with a gun” and a Pacific Division patrol field supervisor in the area, Sgt. Colin…

Prosecutors have filed extortion, domestic violence, and several other charges against a former LAPD officer — who was accused of sexually assaulting and attempting to extort his one-time girlfriend, herself an LAPD detective and the wife of former LAPD assistant chief Jorge Villegas. Danny Reedy, who has not been arrested, was named in a criminal complaint filed for warrant Monday…

The Los Angeles Police Department is continuing to review the case claiming officers falsified information labeling some drivers and passengers as gang members when they were not. Eric Leonard reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020.

Authorities today released body camera video of police fatally shooting a machete-wielding robbery and carjacking suspect in Hollywood three days before Thanksgiving. One of the officer’s body cameras shows him firing his weapon at thecharging suspect as he yells for the man to stop. Other footage shows the man appearing to raise the machete over his head before being shot. Nathaniel...

Airbnb Monday announced that it is removing 28 properties from listings in the Hollywood Hills identified by the Los Angeles Police Department as creating a substantial neighborhood nuisance. “LAPD provided Airbnb with information pertaining to ‘chronic party houses,’ some of which have generated citations and cease-and-desist orders,” Airbnb said in a statement. For the 28 listings identified by Airbnb, all…

An LAPD officer suspected of fondling a dead woman’s body was charged by prosecutors and arrested Thursday, authorities said. David Rene Rojas was booked by LAPD internal affairs detectives on a warrant that accused him of having sexual contact with human remains, according to the LA County District Attorney’s Office. Rojas, 27, was arrested without incident at his home...

A 27-year-old officer faces a felony charge, accused of inappropriately touching a dead woman’s body while on duty. Christine Kim reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019.

Dozens of Los Angeles Police Department officers and detectives mobilized across Los Angeles and Riverside counties early Friday to carry out raids that resulted in the arrests of three suspects in last weekend’s fatal shooting of an off-duty LAPD officer, law enforcement sources told NBCLA.

Los Angeles Police confiscate various illegal drugs and weapons while on the job, but it’s not every day that they come across “super cute” and furry contraband.

Flowers and candles were among the items left at a memorial over the weekend for a 24-year-old off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer who was shot and killed, apparently after confronting a group that was vandalizing a Lincoln Heights building.

Police wounded a woman they say had earlier pointed a gun to her head threatening suicide at a residence in Reseda Sunday.

A U.S. Army veteran was plotting a large-scale terror attack in Los Angeles as revenge for the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.