Samuel Bond Haskell, 37, was arrested in November 2023 in connection with the murders of his wife, Mei Haskell, her mother, Yanxiang Wang, and her stepfather, Gaoshan Li. He had pleaded not guilty to the murder charges and was being held without bail pending trial.

Samuel Haskell Jr. is accused of murdering and dismembering his wife and his in-laws in the Tarzana home they shared in November 2023, prosecutors said.

The Sunday afternoon encounter marks the city’s second fatal police shooting in a week; the police auditor says his office was abruptly barred access to the shooting scene.

San Jose Police said they suspect that the man officers fatally shot on Sunday had killed his child and called 911 to get into a deadly confrontation with police.

According to the San Jose Police Department, investigations were underway into a stabbing incident that resulted in an “officer involved shooting.” According the SJPD, a call came in at 3:23 p.m. Sunday afternoon, but the investigation was still active as of late Sunday night.

California: A late-night bus-stop scare in Victorvile, California sent detectives digging for a possible killer after residents stumbled across a teddy bear that looked disturbingly as though it had been stitched from human skin.

A man in California has been arrested over a grisly scene at a petrol station, where police say he staged a "macabre teddy bear" made to look as if it were constructed from human flesh. Hector Corona Villanueva,

A "human skin" teddy bear found outside a gas station in Victorville over the weekend but it turned out to be a practical joke, according to authorities.