It was like a scene out of a movie. On August 31, 1985, Richard Ramirez, the depraved rapist and murderer whomLos Angeles newspapers had dubbed “The Night Stalker,” got off a Greyhound bus in East Los Angeles. He slipped out a back door to evade the undercover LAPD officers waiting for him there and ducked into a convenience store. There, he saw his face plastered on the front page of every newspaper as all eyes turned to him. He took off on foot, running across four lanes of highway traffic and onto the sizzling blacktop of residential streets.
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He attempted to steal one car, then another, and was rebuffed by a man named Manuel de la Torre, who grabbed a metal bar from a nearby fence and swung it at the serial killer. A crowd began to gather, crying out in Spanish that this was the man. Dozens of East L.A. residents swarmed Ramirez, beating and punching the self-proclaimed emissary of Satan who had paralyzed the city for the past six months. If a sheriff’s vehi
Shop with a Cop fundraiser provides Christmas gifts for Bluffton families
Bluffton Today
Shop with a Cop, a longstanding charity for children in Bluffton, took place again this holiday season despite some doubts created by a turbulent year.
The event is usually a day before Christmas, when some local children whose families are enduring financial hardships are given a gift card and the chance to go shopping with a Bluffton Police Department officer.
Spokesperson Joy Nelson said last month there were “funding concerns” with the police-organized and volunteer-driven event after the department missed an annual fundraiser because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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