Nicole Charky-Chami

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Police are seeking surveillance video and additional information after a teen allegedly shot and killed a man with a flare gun in a neighborhood just blocks from Huntington Beach High School on Friday night. It’s still an active investigation, Huntington Beach Police spokesperson Jessica Cuchilla told TimesOC. “It’s still ongoing and we don’t want to compromise any part of it, so we’re not releasing anything further on how this started,” Cuchilla said.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Nicole Charky-Chami |Nicole Charky-Chami

More than $8.4 million in illegal marijuana, plus 643 pounds of psychedelic mushrooms, were seized at an unlicensed cannabis delivery service that led to an Orange County man’s arrest, authorities announced Thursday. Kung Chau, 49, of Westminster, was arrested May 2 on suspicion of possession for sale of a controlled substance and possession for sale of marijuana, authorities said. Chau was booked at the Orange County Jail.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Nicole Charky-Chami |Nicole Charky-Chami

Three Fountain Valley sixth-graders brought a handgun and ammunition to a middle-school campus earlier this week, police announced. Officers responded to a report that a student possibly had a firearm at Vista View Middle School on Monday, according to the Fountain Valley Police Department. It was not an active shooter incident, police said. Officers allegedly discovered a handgun and ammunition while searching the students’ backpacks, officials said.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Nicole Charky-Chami |Nicole Charky-Chami

Three Fountain Valley 6th-graders brought a handgun and ammunition to a middle school campus earlier this week, police announced Tuesday. Officers responded to a report that a student possibly had a firearm at Vista View Middle School on Monday, according to the Fountain Valley Police Department. It was not an active shooter incident, police said. Officers allegedly discovered a “handgun and ammunition,” while searching the students’ backpacks, officials said.

2 months ago | latimes.com | Nicole Charky-Chami |Eric Anthony Licas |Nicole Charky-Chami

Yellow police tape hangs from a tree near where police fatally shot Geoffrey Stirling, brother of Lydia McLaughlin, during a traffic stop on Coast Highway, east of Superior Avenue Thursday evening. The 45-year-old motorcyclist fatally shot by Newport Beach police in a traffic stop last week was the brother of “Real Housewives of Orange County” alum Lydia McLaughlin. McLaughlin confirmed she is mourning her brother, Geoffrey Stirling. “My family has experienced an unimaginable loss.