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UPDATED: 06/21/2016 12 p.m. With official confirmation and additional information. LAKE HILLS – Riverside County Sheriff’s officials are conducting a death investigation after the body of a deceased male adult was found along the southbound shoulder of La Sierra Avenue near Tin Mine Road, in the unincorporated community of Lake Hills Tuesday, June 21. A passing motorist called 911 to report […]
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NUEVO – Officials from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department are conducting a death investigation and have cordoned off at least three potential crimes scenes, including one where a pickup truck rolled several times into a dirt field on Lakeview Avenue, north of Electric/Stadler Avenues, according to a sheriff official. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Perris Police Station and other emergency […]
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PERRIS – An infant died Thursday, May 12, after falling into a residential pool in the 500 Block of North “D” Street, in Perris, according to a sheriff official. Very few details have been released about the drowning and an investigation is ongoing into the tragic incident. The victim has not yet been officially identified and has only been described […]
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HOMELAND – Cal Fire/Riverside, Riverside County Fire personnel and investigators, Riverside County Sheriff deputies and investigators, Hemet Police officials and ATF agents are investigating a series of Homeland and City of Hemet area fires that appear to be suspicious in nature. Some of the fires include a church that was burned to the ground April 30, as well as a second […]
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UPDATE 04/07/2016 8:30 p.m. RIVERSIDE – Riverside Police are investigating what they referred to as a “suspicious death,” after a woman was found dead in a Riverside apartment, according to police officials. No information has been released regarding who found the deceased woman, who police described as a mother of five children. The investigation began on Wednesday, March 30, at about […]
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HEMET – As many as three people, including a juvenile female, were believed to have been shot and a fourth was injured during a shooting incident on Mar. 9. Officers from the Hemet Police Department responded to numerous reports of shots fired at an apartment complex at 201 South Yale Street at 11:39 p.m. Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s […]
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Trevor Montgomery MURRIETA – Toxicology reports from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Office and a press release recently issued from the Murrieta Police Department have finally begun to shed new light into a fatal accident in Murrieta that took the lives of three young Hemet residents. The coroner’s office identified the three teens killed in the fatal traffic collision […]
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Trevor Montgomery BLYTHE – Riverside County Sheriff’s officials are conducting a homicide investigation after a 6-month-old died under suspicious circumstances on Tuesday Feb. 23. At about 7:15 a.m., deputies assigned to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Blythe-Colorado River Station were contacted by medical personnel from the Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe, regarding a possible child abuse investigation. Doctors, nurses, teachers, law […]
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Trevor Montgomery Miguel Shannon / Epicenter News Photographer UPDATED: Feb. 20, 3 a.m. WRITER’S NOTE: Please keep in mind, just because the Sheriff’s Central Homicide Unit is investigating this case, does not mean this tragic incident WAS an actual homicide. CHU handles SIDS deaths as well as many NON-CRIMINAL death investigations. SAN JACINTO – Sheriff’s officials have announced that […]
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Trevor Montgomery Riverside County News Source On-Scene Reporting: Miguel Shannon / Epicenter News UPDATE #10 SAN JACINTO – Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff’s San Jacinto Police Station conducted a lengthy, day long investigation following an early morning shooting that occurred yesterday, Monday, Feb. 8. The incident, which was reported to officials shortly before 6:00 a.m., occurred in the […]
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