UPDATE, MAY 23, 12:31 P.M.: Irvine's Shalabh Rastogi is being held without bail pending a scheduled arraignment in Santa Ana today on charges that he strangled and murdered his wife in the apartment they shared with their three children, prosecutors announced.

The 39-year-old finance worker faces one felony count of murder and a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in state prison if convicted, according to an Orange County District Attorney's office (OCDA) statement.
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The death penalty will be sought against Yorba Linda 24-year-old Itzcoatl "Izzy" Ocampo, the accused serial killer of four homeless men and a mother and grown son fatally stabbed between October 25 and January 13, prosecutors announced today.

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas convened a panel of senior staff and veteran homicide prosecutors to go over the case before making the call to seek the ultimate punishment for the discharged Marine, according to his office.
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This phrase should be saved on a hot key, it's been typed so much this year: police, responding to a call of gunfire, found a man shot up in front of an apartment complex. The latest victim was Hector Omar Rocha, who was gunned down Tuesday evening in the 900 block of West Lodge Avenue in Anaheim, taken to a hospital that listed the 29-year-old in critical condition, and died Wednesday afternoon.
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UPDATE, MAY 9, 10:40 A.M.: The Orange County coroner's office has identified the 17-year-old boy found shot to death in an Anaheim driveway Friday as Kevin Fahim Danyal.

Online tributes from friends say the Anaheim resident's nickname was "Soldier."
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UPDATE, MAY 8, 4:10 P.M.: A statement on the continued arraignment of Orange 31-year-old Shazer Fernando Limas, who could get the death penalty for allegedly killing his girlfriend and their two young boys, gives new ages for the children.

Said originally by Orange Police to have been 2 and 4 years old, and then ages 4 months and 2 years old, Emmanuel and Fernando Limas were actually 3 months old and 1 year old respectively, according to the Orange County District Attorney's office.
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I didn't say anything because I didn't want to jinx it, but 2012 was shaping up to be a relatively light year when it came to the County of Orange, which isn't exactly Detroit when it comes to murders anyway. However, multiple murders like the one last month in Orange, coupled with a rash of recent killings Johnny Law links to gang activity, put us back on the normal 187 track. The latest? Early today in Santa Ana.
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A Santa Ana 23-year-old has been arrested for the murder of a man who was whacked on the back of his head with a skateboard while he was sitting on a bench in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park last Friday evening.

Marcus Herrera, who is also accused of stealing the wallet of Robert Musial, 55, was arrested while riding a Muni bus Sunday morning.
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UPDATE, MAY 2, 10:23 A.M.: The trail from the body of Luis Arreola, who died in an emergency room after being found with gunshot wounds outside apartments in Anaheim April 25, led investigators to alleged meth dealers and an apparent plot to steal drugs from them.

Six suspects from Anaheim, Commerce, Montebello and Los Angeles had their Wednesday arraignments on charges of murder and conspiracy to sell and distribute methamphetamine continued to May 22.
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UPDATE, MAY 2, 9:42 A.M.: The 21-year-old man shot to death Friday afternoon in what Santa Ana Police believe was a gang shooting has been identified as Daniel Gonzalez Jr. of Santa Ana.

A description of his suspected killer has not been released, but police are investigating the murder of the Santa Ana man as gang retaliation for the stabbing of a rival earlier in the day.
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UPDATE, APRIL 30, 9:31 A.M.: Camp Pendleton Lance Cpl. Cory Killgore says the murder of his estranged wife Brittany Dawn Killgore left him "devastated," that the 22-year-old does not deserve the "salacious gossip and rumor" surrounding her death and that he is going to seek justice for those who took her away from him and something positive from the tragedy so her life will not have been lived in vain. Killgore shares his feelings in a statement released by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
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