USC student will not face charges in fatal on-campus stabbing of homeless man: ‘Genuine fear for his life’
A University of Southern California (USC) student who police say stabbed and killed a homeless man who was trying to break into his car on Greek Street will not be charged, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office announced Thursday. LA DA George Gascon declined to press charges against Ivan Gallegos, 19, who was arrested following […]
Portland Area Spent over Half a Billion on the Homeless
Addressing homelessness in the Portland, Oregon, area will reportedly cost a lot of money in 2023, with most of the funding going to temporary shelter, services and housing arrangements. According to an analysis by ECOnorthwest, “local governments and nonprofits” in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties spent $531 million on homelessness, Fox News reported. report On […]
Woman’s lost luggage ends up in Hollywood homeless encampment
An American Airlines passenger discovered his lost suitcase had landed in a homeless encampment in Hollywood, California, and was missing its contents. Grace told KABC-TV that she flew from Dallas to Hollywood Burbank Airport, but her luggage took a much longer route. “I went to Denver. And [from] “From Denver, back to Dallas, and then […]
NYC homeless woman sexually assaulted outside Staten Island ferry terminal
A homeless woman sleeping outside the Staten Island ferry terminal on Wednesday morning woke up to a real-life nightmare in which she was sexually assaulted by a pervert, police said. Police said that at about 4:20 a.m., the 35-year-old victim was lying on the ground near a restaurant in the St. George Terminal when an […]
Friends of college student booked for murder of homeless man claim he acted in self-defense
A teenager currently in a Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of killing a homeless man said he acted in self-defense, friends say. Shortly after 8pm on Monday, 19-year-old Ivan Gallegos and two friends heard a car alarm going off nearby and after calling police, the two went to investigate the alarm themselves. “Throughout his […]
Class action lawsuit claims San Diego officials who cleared out encampments violated constitutional rights of the homeless
San Diego officials are accused of violating homeless people’s constitutional rights in a federal class action lawsuit. They left They left the camp and abandoned their possessions. “They just want to keep kicking people when they’re down… It’s really awful.” The lawsuit alleges that the encampment sweeps violate the homeless’ due process rights and equal […]
19-Year-Old USC Student Arrested For Allegedly Stabbing Homeless Man
A 19-year-old University of Southern California (USC) student has been arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for the stabbing death of a homeless man on Monday night, authorities confirmed. The Los Angeles Police Department posted a press release online announcing that authorities arrested 19-year-old Ivan Gallegos and charged him with murder following an […]
USC fraternity student stabs homeless man to death on Greek Row
A University of Southern California student is accused of stabbing and killing a homeless man after catching him breaking into a car on the school’s Greek Street side Monday night, police said. Ivan Gallegos, 19, confronted the man in the parking lot of an off-campus housing building around 8:15 p.m., pulled out a knife and […]
19-year-old student stabs and kills homeless man who was breaking into cars near USC, police say
California police say a 19-year-old college student stabbed and killed a homeless man who was trying to steal his car outside the University of Southern California. The Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement that officers responded to a report of an assault with a deadly weapon on West 28th Street around 8:15 p.m. […]
Former homeless man sounds alarm on California’s policies
Jared Krickstein, a formerly homeless man, said California’s approach to homelessness has failed and that the current system is a job-finding program for liberal arts graduates. Krickstein experienced the horrors of San Francisco’s street camps firsthand, having lived there for years as a homeless, drug-addicted man who should have benefited from California’s extremely generous policies […]