Assaults San Bernardino County

Ontario police arrested a fourth suspect in a Labor Day weekend kidnaping that left a teen-age girl dead and two other women raped and stabbed. Detectives aided by the Police Department's SWAT team arrested Danny Sorian, 32, of Ontario at the converted garage where he lived. He was booked into San Bernardino County Jail on charges of robbery, kidnaping, rape and homicide.

A 46-year-old Ontario woman who allegedly turned off a critically ill cancer patient's ventilator early Tuesday was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, Upland Police Sgt. Ken Bonson said. Mary Trujillo was arrested at her home at 3:30 a.m. after nurses at San Antonio Community Hospital saw her leave a 66-year-old woman's room, Bonson said. When they went in, they found that the ventilator had been turned off and the woman was having difficulty breathing.

Ontario police investigators inched forward Tuesday in their hunt for three men in a grisly weekend kidnaping that left one teen-age girl dead and two other women raped and stabbed. A car used in the abduction was recovered Tuesday afternoon abandoned in the community of Rubidoux, near Riverside, but detectives said their investigation, including interviews with the surviving victims, had produced little useful evidence.

A truck driver rampaged through an apartment complex in Rancho Cucamonga, smashing several parked cars with his rig and trying to rape a pregnant woman before he was arrested, authorities said Thursday. David Aaron Berger, 32, of Yuma, Ariz., was arrested Wednesday night after he reportedly demolished a carport, tried to rape a 25-year-old, sexually battered a 37-year-old woman and tried to run down another resident. "We saw a huge diesel truck ramming into cars," said resident Leeann Russell.

A 12-year-old trick-or-treater was beaten over the head with a golf club and stabbed in the kidney with the shaft after he knocked on a neighbor's door, police said, an attack that left his quiet neighborhood shaken. Richard Hernandez was in critical but stable condition Monday at Loma Linda University Medical Center, said police spokeswoman Karen Morgan.

Their families had been next-door neighbors and close friends in Armenia, and the Gumuryan brothers thought it would be a relaxing break to take Armen Shakhkaramyan to Big Bear on a fishing trip. "He didn't even have a chance to say any last words," Shakhkaramyan's grieving brother, Sarkis, said Thursday, struggling to make sense of his brother's slaying. "I just don't understand. They gave them the money, and they shot them anyway. Armen was asleep, and then he was dead."

A truck driver rampaged through an apartment complex in Rancho Cucamonga, smashing several parked cars with his rig and trying to rape a pregnant woman before he was arrested, authorities said Thursday. David Aaron Berger, 32, of Yuma, Ariz., was arrested Wednesday night after he reportedly demolished a carport, tried to rape a 25-year-old, sexually battered a 37-year-old woman and tried to run down another resident. "We saw a huge diesel truck ramming into cars," said resident Leeann Russell.

In the final day of his attempted-murder trial, former Cal State Northridge football player Jonathan Beauregard testified that he was home asleep when his former girlfriend and her male companion were shot outside a San Bernardino bar. Beauregard, 23, is charged with two counts of attempted murder for allegedly shooting Dunyella D. Smith in the hip and Von E. Thompson in the chest and arm on Aug. 29, 1994. A bulletproof vest is credited with saving Thompson's life.

Assembly Minority Leader Jim Brulte was struck in the right arm by a BB fired by a teen-ager who evidently missed a tree that was his target, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department reported Thursday. Brulte, a Rancho Cucamonga Republican, was hit as he was on the 14th green of the Lake Arrowhead Country Club on Tuesday evening. The shot, investigated as an assault with a deadly weapon, was fired from a wooded area above the golf course.

A 10-month-old girl was in critical condition Tuesday after being stabbed multiple times while she was cradled in her mother's arms, authorities said. Kristine Crenshaw was being held by her mother, Nikki Crenshaw, about 4 a.m. Tuesday when there was a knock at the front door, police spokeswoman Margaret Diamond said. Crenshaw told police that she answered the door and the assailant began to stab the baby.

A 35-year-old man was charged Tuesday with attempted murder for allegedly beating a trick-or-treater with a golf club and stabbing him with the broken shaft. Randall Colbrunn, who was held without bail, also was charged with using a deadly weapon to inflict great bodily injury on the 12-year-old, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Ron Barbatoe. Colbrunn is scheduled to be arraigned today. If convicted on all charges, he faces a maximum penalty of life in prison with the possibility of parole.

A 12-year-old trick-or-treater was beaten over the head with a golf club and stabbed in the kidney with the shaft after he knocked on a neighbor's door, police said, an attack that left his quiet neighborhood shaken. Richard Hernandez was in critical but stable condition Monday at Loma Linda University Medical Center, said police spokeswoman Karen Morgan.

Rodney King, whose videotaped beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 brought him a $3.8-million civil award, was booked into jail Friday on misdemeanor charges that he assaulted his daughter and her mother at their Fontana home in January. The incident marks the seventh time that King, 33, has been arrested on various charges since his beating and the subsequent criminal trial of the police officers, whose acquittals sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

Three men died and a fourth was critically wounded during a shooting that erupted Friday afternoon in a second-story unit of a modest apartment building, police said. Multiple gunshots were reported about 2:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they found two unidentified men dead in the apartment, said Ontario Police Cpl. Michael Caldera. Two men were lying outside. One of them, found on a walkway at the side of the building, was later pronounced dead at San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland.

San Bernardino County prosecutors have filed 14 felony charges against John Alan Oden, the Alabama big-rig driver accused of deliberately swerving to smash cars on a desolate stretch of the freeway last month. But Oden, 23, maintains his innocence. He says he's as much a victim as the drivers who accuse him of bashing into them. In a telephone interview from his Alabama home, Oden said he remembers nothing of "the incident that made me famous in a lot of bad ways."

They heard nothing. No screeching brakes. No blaring horn. Nothing. They saw nothing, either. But they certainly felt something. From the silence and the dark it came: a terrifying jolt. The jolt of a big rig loaded with cars racing down the San Bernardino Freeway without headlights--and steering smack into them.

Civil rights abuse charges were dismissed Friday against one of six San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies accused of brutality in the alleged beatings of five Mexican nationals in 1988. U.S. District Judge A. Wallace Tashima removed Deputy Michael Stout at the request of the lawyer for the deputies.

Cal State Northridge lineman Jonathan Beauregard, accused by police of two counts of attempted murder, was back at practice Tuesday, but school officials have scheduled a meeting today that could decide his long-term fate with the program. Beauregard, 22, was arrested Aug. 29 on suspicion of shooting his former girlfriend and her male acquaintance in San Bernardino, his hometown. He hid news of the arrest from his coaches and teammates for more than a month.

A second man has come forward and said he was stabbed in the eyes by an assailant while a patient at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, police said Thursday. Fontana Police Cpl. Nate Harley said Juan Mendoza announced during a news conference called by his attorneys Wednesday that "the same thing had happened to him two years ago" that happened to Steven Solomon, 34, last week. "We haven't interviewed Mendoza yet, so we don't know any of the details about him," Harley said.

A 10-month-old girl was in critical condition Tuesday after being stabbed multiple times while she was cradled in her mother's arms, authorities said. Kristine Crenshaw was being held by her mother, Nikki Crenshaw, about 4 a.m. Tuesday when there was a knock at the front door, police spokeswoman Margaret Diamond said. Crenshaw told police that she answered the door and the assailant began to stab the baby.