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MONDAY, JULY 21, 2014 - JULY 27, 2014
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Triple homicide suspect faces multiple Local Realtor murder charges and attempted murder lends a of police officer and others helping hand By Terry Miller to special needs adults By SHEL SEGAL
singing such iconic songs as “The Way You Look Tonight,” “The Sound of Music,” “The Man That Got Away,” “Stormy Weather,” “Blues in the Night,” “You Light Up My Life” and “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe,” plus beloved music from Mary Poppins, The Magnificent Seven, Funny Girl and a symphonic arrangement of Pharrell Williams’s 2014 Oscarnominated song “Happy” from
No one ever said family had to be blood related. For brothers Roy and Robert Lewis of Monrovia, their family has come in the form of Nancy McSween, a real estate agent with Podley Properties in Pasadena. McSween has become the brothers’ “godmother” of sorts as she has helped them find housing in Monrovia and is even trying to see if she can find them some work. “They are basically low functioning,” McSween said of the Lewis brothers, who are both around age 60. “But what is interesting is the fact we get many people like them who are in board and care. And they chose not to live in a board and care. Some of them can be quite functional making just a minimal amount of money. But they chose to live on their own and on their own resources.” McSween said the brothers have had to relocate in Monrovia as the house they were living in was sold. But while the brothers would do their best to find housing on their own, they just needed someone to give them a little boost. “They would basically ride their bikes throughout Monrovia and look for signs saying, ‘For Rent,’” she said “They would call the numbers and if it was in their price range they would call me up. I knew since there was no family to assist
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Pasadena Police Chief Phillip Sanchez held a press conference Monday morning following the Saturday triple homicide in NW Pasadena. Sanchez advised the media that the suspect will be charged with three counts of murder and additional counts of attempted murder including attempted murder of a police officer. - Photo by Terry Miller
On Monday morning Pasadena city officials held a news conference on the shooting rampage that occurred Saturday afternoon in which five people were shot and three
people were killed at the hands of a gunman armed with semiautomatic weapons and lots of ammunition. The suspect in Saturday’s triple homicide has been charged
with three counts of murder and three counts attempted murder, including the attempted murder of a police officer. Please see page 3
Michael Feinstein and the Pasadena Pops celebrate ASCAP’s Centennial A who’s who of Hollywood’s music elite is coming out to play with Michael Feinstein at the Pasadena POPS’ August 16th Hooray for Hollywood concert, presented in partnership with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) at the LA Arboretum. Four of ASCAP’s top film composers and lyricists will perform their hit music with the POPS: Alan Bergman(“Windmills of Your Mind,” with Marilyn Bergman and co-written with Michel
Legrand, 1968 Oscar winner from The Thomas Crown Affair), Michael Giacchino (music fromUp, winner of the 2010 Oscar for best original score), Bruce Broughton (music from Silverado, 1986 Oscar nominee for best original score) and Paul Williams(“Evergreen,” co-written with Barbra Streisand, 1976 Oscar winner from A Star Is Born). Powerhouse vocalists Maureen McGovern, Debby Boone and Kevin Earley will make special guest star appearances,