Recent victims, preliminary

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The HR is off. We will provide more information on the following recent homicides and other cases after Tuesday.

Montebello: Joe Alvarado, 22, was shot in the 800 block of Mines Avenue in Montebello and died at 6:56 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22

Compton: Aviantay Williams, 16, a black youth, was shot at 1116 N. Santa Fe Avenue in Compton, and died at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22.

Compton: Clifford Ingram, 44, a black man, was listed as the victim of a homicide at 924 W. 130th St. in Compton; death time, 1:25 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22.

Covina: Paul Brisuela, 20, a Latino man, was stabbed at 330 W. Rowland in Covina and died at 1:26 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 22. San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports

City Terrace: Alfredo Delgadillo, 29, a Latino man, was shot once at 3816 Woolwine Drive in City Terrace and died at 11:41 p.m. Friday, Dec. 21. He was outside when two men in a pickup truck drove by, and called him over to the cab of the truck. They fired, hitting Delgadillo, and Delgadillo returned fire before dying. His shot ‘clipped the lung’ of one of the suspects in the truck, said Sheriff’s homicide Det. Jonas Shipe. He remains hospitalized in stable condition, and is under arrest, as is his accomplice. The suspects are Latino men, 25 and 32. There were drugs in the house, and investigators suspect issues related to illegal drug sales and gangs were involved in the conflict.

South-Central Los Angeles: Paulino Juarez, 34, a Latino man, was the victim of a gunshot through the heart at about 5:30 p.m. Dec. 9th in a vacant house at 229 W. Gage St. in LAPD’s Newton Division. His body was finally found at noon Thursday, Dec. 20.

Detectives in this case found themselves investigating a homicide without a body: Newton Det. Julio Benavides said that on Dec. 9, detectives got an anonymous call that someone was cleaning up a house where a man had been shot.

They arrived at the house and found several Latino males in their 20s scrubbing the abandoned house with Clorox. After some investigation, the detectives determined that some men had been in the house playing poker and drinking. There had been an argument over cheating. Someone had been shot but it was unclear who. The body had been taken by some men in a stolen Honda Accord a few hours after the shooting . They had loaded it in the trunk and left the rest of the mess for the others to clean up.

Benavides and partner Det. Johnny Villa now had evidence of a murder, but no suspect and no body. They canvassed the neighborhood, and ran into a woman who was looking for her missing husband. The husband had been at the house playing poker, and had never returned. Benavides and Villa now had a name for this victim. Finally, on Dec. 20, a city parking-ticket officer was preparing to impound a Honda Accord near a school in the 3800 block of 18th Street, and opened the trunk to do an inventory check. Paulino Juarez’s body was inside, wrapped in a blanket. Detectives caught up with the suspect, 41-year-old Jesus Garcia, the same day, and arrested him. Victim Juarez had four children, three girls and a boy, all under the age of 7. He was a construction worker.

Crenshaw: Gary Freeman, 33, a black man, was shot in the abdomen near Arlington and Adams Boulevard at about 5:30 a.m. Dec. 16 in the Crenshaw area, and died at California Hospital days later, at 1:28 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20. Freeman was on his way to his girlfriend’s house in his older Cadillac Seville when a bullet ripped through the driver’s side door and hit him in the stomach area, said Det. Frank Alvelais of LAPD’s South Bureau. The Cadillac careened into a couple of parked cars, and 911 operators got a call of a shooting--perhaps from Freeman himself, while he was still conscious.

Northridge: Two men, Felimon Contreras, 29, and Heriberto Corpus, 20, both Latino, were shot multiple times in a double homicide at 17049 San Jose Street. There time of death was recorded as 2:20 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 20. The two acquaintances were inside a house together, said LAPD Devonshire Det. Mike Fesperman. Contreras’s girlfriend came home about 2 p.m., and found them both there, dead, shot to death, and called police. There was no sign of a break-in. Both men were longtime residents of the San Fernando Valley. Corpus lived with his mother in Pacoima. They had probably died sometime mid-morning or early afternoon.

Long Beach: Ronald Henry, 67, a black man, was stabbed in the neck at 915 Dawson Ave. in Long Beach, in an apartment, and died at 5:27 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19. Police got the call eight minutes before his time of death. Paramedics were already at the scene. They said he had been stabbed multiple times.

Venice: Richard Winkleman, a 48-year-old white man, was killed by a shotgun blast near 2567 Walnut Ave. in Venice; time of death: 11:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17. Detectives believe he may have been killed in an attempted robbery. He had parked his 2002 Harley Davidson motorcycle in the alley and was walking away from it when someone confronted him. There was an argument, then a blast. He died at the scene. The suspect fled. Winkleman was divorced with grown children. He was a longtime Venice resident who had spent time in prison. Anyone with information is asked to call LAPD Pacific detectives at (310) 482 -6369.