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David Perdue holds a bullet.

The last time we checked in with David Perdue, he was holding one of the bullets a Torrance police officer fired at him in those tense SoCal days in early February when rogue ex-LAPD cop Christopher Jordan Dorner was on the loose. As Perdue demonstrated, police were so freaked out by the threat posed by now late, former La Palma resident Dorner--who'd been blamed for killing a cop and an Irvine couple tied to a cop (before supposedly slaying a sheriff's detective)--that they were literally shooting at anything that moved. Well, as you might have expected when you first heard about the Perdue saga, the mess is going to have to be resolved in court.

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See the update at the end of this post on Victor Manuel Sanchez being arraigned today on charges of murder and other counts.

ORIGINAL POST, JUNE 3, 10:11 A.M.: The man killed in a crosswalk during a Santa Ana police chase last week has been described as a "genius" computer-gaming engineer. Some bystanders first believed the victim struck by a car Thursday was a local homeless man, but Andrew Scott Reisse, 33, has since been identified as the co-founder of Oculus VR, a Kickstarter-funded startup developing the Oculus Rift virtual-reality gaming headset.

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The Los Angeles Police Department firing of Christopher Jordan Dorner, the former La Palma resident and "rogue ex-officer" who presumably took his own life after terrorizing Southern California law enforcement and killing four in early February, has again been deemed justified, according to a veteran civil rights attorney.

But the LAPD insists the review has not yet been completed and no conclusions have been reached.

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An Alaska man who is missing on the Big Island of Hawaii is wanted for questioning in the murder of a former Tustin woman.

The body of Brittany-Jane Royal, a 25-year-old who was two months pregnant, was found tangled in fishing line in the Pacific last Tuesday. Medical examiners later concluded she had been strangled.

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Just about everyone has weighed in on Christopher Jordan Dorner, the rogue ex-LAPD cop said to have taken himself out as fiery Big Bear walls collapsed around him on Feb. 12, the same day he committed his fourth alleged murder.

Count Marxists among those chiming in, asking whether Dorner was a "revolutionary role model."

The answer may surprise you.

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A 26-year-old man standing in his Garden Grove front yard early on Memorial Day was shot and later declared brain dead, according to police.

It's unclear at this hour if the unidentified victim had been disconnected from life support at UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange, according to Lieutenant Jeff Nightengale, the Garden Grove Police Department spokesman.

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Stanwood Fred Elkus fatally shot Dr. Ronald Franklin Gilbert in a Newport Beach examination room because the Lake Elsinore barber was angry the urologist botched prostate surgery 21 years ago, according to a jailhouse interview.

"I'll admit what I did was a terrible thing," the 75-year-old murder suspect reportedly said.

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See Update No. 4 at the bottom of page 2 about K.C. Joy answering "hell no" when asked if he murdered his "dream," Maribel Ramos. Update No. 3 on page 2 is about unrequited love being a possible motive in the case. Update No. 2 at the bottom of the next page is about the charges against Joy. Update No. 1 on the next page concerns allegations of past violence by Joy in Tennessee.

ORIGINAL POST, MAY 20, NOON: Kwang "K.C." Joy, who is currently being held in lieu of $1 million bail, is due to be arraigned Tuesday for the murder of the 54-year-old's roommate of one and a half years, Maribel Manriquez Ramos.

Questioned by police and the media in the days after the 36-year-old U.S. Army veteran and Cal State Fullerton criminology student went missing, Joy had described Ramos as his best friend and the only family he had.

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Who did better work identifying Kwang Choi "K.C." Joy as the suspected murderer of Maribel Manriquez Ramos? Police investigators or a Yelper?

There's no doubt police quickly had 54-year-old Joy in their sights, as the suspect himself admits in a bit.

But someone on Yelp got clued in before Joy's arrest was announced.

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See the updates at the end of this post about one of the eight parties shut out from the $1 million Christopher Dorner reward going to court to stop the distribution of funds today, and a judge in Los Angeles shutting him down.

The Los Angeles Police Department on Thursday released a three-judge panel's determination on the distribution of the $1 million reward for information leading to the capture of Christopher Jordan Dorner--a reward that included $100,000 from the city of Irvine. Twelve parties had sought chunks of the reward, but the judges settled on three. "We acknowledge the decision of the panel and the judges' wisdom," Irvine Mayor Steven Choi says in an Irvine Police statement.

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