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THURSDAY, APRIL 30 - May 6 , 2015
Baldwin Park Man Arrested for Arson That Resulted in Three Deaths in S. El Monte
- Photo by Terry Miller
By Terry Miller and Jennifer Schlueter A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection to a fire at a tire shop in South El Monte that left three people dead early Saturday morning. A surveillance video
led homicide detectives to Roberto Fuentes of Baldwin Park, who was seen at the shop before the attack. A witness told police he saw several men throw a Molotov cocktail
into Cheque Tires in the 1200 block of Santa Anita Avenue and then run from the scene at approximately 5:30 a.m. On Sunday, Fuentes was arrested for murder and is being held
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in lieu of $1 million bail. In vain, responding Los Angeles County firefighters tried to save a man trapped behind a fence who was tryPlease see page 2
California Task Force 2 Deploys to Nepal Earthquake– International Red Cross Already Assisting Victims
Bumble Bee Foods, Two Others Charged in Death of Employee Trapped Inside Industrial Oven
Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey announced Monday that Bumble Bee Foods LLC and two others were charged with willfully violating worker safety rules, allegedly causing the 2012 death of an employee who became trapped inside an industrial oven at the company’s Santa Fe Springs plant. “We take worker safety very seriously,” District Attorney Lacey said. “For the past year, prosecutors
and investigators from my office have begun rolling out to major industrial incidents involving serious worker injuries and death. Our goal is to enhance the criminal prosecution of workplace safety violations. Although the Bumble Bee investigation began in 2012, this case represents our commitment to protecting workers from illegal – and, potentially, deadly – on-the-job practices.” Please see page 2
Thousands Join March to Turkish Consulate General on Centennial of Genocide By Terry Miller
By Terry Miller
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- Photo Courtesy Red Cross International
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on 25 April. Authorities report over 2,000 people have been killed and many buildings have collapsed in the capital, Kathmandu. As search and rescue efforts continue, hospitals in the capital continue to function but are stretched to the limit. Powerful aftershocks continue to be felt, so further damage is a risk, increasing the climate of fear amongst the local population.
Major relief organizations, including the Red Cross, have already arrived on scene and describe the indescribable destruction this massive quake caused. While details of the impact continue to come in, the Nepal Red Cross, which has extensive experience in responding to natural disasters, is providing first aid, search and rescue, blood to medical facilities in the capital and support to first responders.
Reports vary, but well over 3,000 people have been killed in Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh, and at the Nepal-China border, with some 5,800 more injured. Many are feared trapped under rubble and the number of casualties is expected to rise. Some eight million people have been affected by the quake. At least 15 aftershocks, ranging from magnitude 5 to 6.7, caused further damage to buildings and increased the risk of col-
lapse. Tremors were felt as far away as Lahore in Pakistan, Lhasa in Tibet, and in Dhaka, Bangladesh. More than six million people live within 60 miles of the epicenter, located some 50 miles northwest of the densely populated capital Katmandu which itself has a population of 2.5 million. Buildings and infrastructure have been damaged and destroyed. ElecPlease see page 3
Thousands of people marched in Los Angeles Friday, April 24th to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the killings of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire. Throngs joined for Friday’s six-mile walk from the Little Armenia neighborhood to the Turkish Consulate, carrying flags and signs denouncing Turkey. The event comes after President Barack Obama once again stopped short of calling the 1915 killings a “genocide.” Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the
Photo by Rick Keshishi
time of World War I. Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, and earlier this month recalled its ambassador to the Vatican after Pope Francis described the killings as genocide. Michael D. Antonovich issued the following statement on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide: “Today, we mark the 100th anniversary of one of the darkest chapters in human history. The centennial of a crime that Pope Francis called ‘the first genocide of the 20th century,’ in quoting the statement made by Pope John Please see page 4