Eric Leonard

2 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Andrew Blankstein |Eric Leonard |Rebecca Cohen |Tim Stelloh

Newly released police video shows a bestselling author and wife of Weezer’s bassist armed with a handgun as she was confronted by Los Angeles Police Department officers searching her Eagle Rock neighborhood for a trio of hit-and-run suspects earlier this month. “Put the gun down! Hey, put the gun down,” officers are heard saying in the bodycam video as they looked over a backyard fence and saw Jillian Lauren Shriner. “Lay the gun down,” officers yelled repeatedly.

1 month ago | nbcchicago.com | Eric Leonard |Andrew Blankstein

Prosecutors in Los Angeles filed a murder charge with special circumstances Monday in the disappearance and death of Oscar Omar Hernandez, the 13-year-old boy who vanished after visiting a soccer coach in the Antelope Valley last month. That coach, identified by Hernandez's family as Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino, was arrested last week by LAPD detectives investigating the teen's disappearance, although he was booked on an unrelated assault charge from last year.

Aug 15, 2024 | yahoo.com | Andrew Blankstein |Eric Leonard |Rich Schapiro

Andrew Blankstein and Eric Leonard, NBC Los Angeles and Rich SchapiroAugust 15, 2024 at 4:48 PM·4 min readFive people – including two California doctors, a reputed drug dealer known as the "ketamine queen" and Matthew Perry's live-in personal assistant – have been charged in connection with the actor's accidental overdose death, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Perry, 54, was found face down in the heated end of a pool at his Pacific Palisades home on Oct. 28, 2023.

Aug 15, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Andrew Blankstein |Eric Leonard |Rich Schapiro

An arrest in Southern California on Thursday in connection with the overdose death of actor Matthew Perry, law enforcement sources told NBC News. Perry, 54, was found face down in the heated end of a pool at his Pacific Palisades home on Oct. 28, 2023. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office attributed his death to the acute effects of ketamine, an anesthetic with psychedelic properties.

Aug 15, 2024 | flipboard.com | Andrew Blankstein |Eric Leonard |Rich Schapiro

Multiple people charged in connection with overdose death of actor Matthew PerryAt least one individual was arrested in Southern California Thursday in connection with the death last year of Perry, which was attributed to the acute effects of ketamine. Multiple people have been charged in connection with the accidental overdose death of actor Matthew Perry, law enforcement …