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December 10, 2007 | From a Times Staff Writer
The weekend shooting death of a 27-year-old man in Buena Park may have been gang-related, police say. The victim, whose name was not released, was walking in the 6300 block of Los Robles Avenue about 7 p.m. Saturday when he was approached by a man who fired two rounds from a handgun. One round struck the victim, who was taken to UCI Medical Center in Orange, where he died early Sunday. A witness reported seeing a car slowly following the shooter, who fled on foot.
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May 25, 2002 | MONTE MORIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
A Buena Park man accused of killing a teenage neighbor who stole a Halloween decoration from his front porch was convicted Friday of voluntary manslaughter by a jury that concluded the shooting was an accident, not murder. Prosecutors had sought a second-degree murder verdict against Pete T. Solomona, saying he shot his 17-year-old neighbor in a rage over having his plastic pumpkin stolen. The jury, however, said it believed Solomona's story that the gun went off by accident.
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October 7, 2009 | Richard Winton
A man accused of killing his wife, model Jasmine Fiore, did not acknowledge the killing in a suicide note left on his laptop computer but expressed his love for her repeatedly and wrote that he was jealous and angry, police said. Buena Park Police Sgt. Bill Kohanek on Tuesday said the 1 1/2 -page "suicide letter" was recovered by investigators from Ryan Jenkins' laptop after the former VH1 reality show contestant hanged himself in a Canadian motel room not far from the border after a pursuit by U.S. authorities.
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August 19, 2009 | Andrew Blankstein and Richard Winton
A contestant on a reality TV show was named a "person of interest" by police Tuesday in the case of a 28-year-old swimsuit model whose dead body was discovered stuffed into a suitcase and dumped into a Buena Park trash bin over the weekend. Buena Park police say they want to talk to a Canadian national who was last seen with Jasmine Fiore last week at her Fairfax district home on Edinburgh Avenue. The man, Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a 32-year-old real estate developer from Calgary, reported Fiore missing Saturday.
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August 21, 1998 | LESLEY WRIGHT
A businessman who has followed the Rev. Wiley S. Drake's legal troubles with the city offered Thursday to donate a temporary shelter for the homeless to Drake's church. Robert McClure, director of the mortgage company Equibuild Corp. in Irvine, said he would donate a prefabricated modular building to First Southern Baptist Church to help Drake resolve his problems stemming from the housing of homeless people. "As an observer, I fully support his efforts," McClure said.
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December 10, 2003 | Mai Tran and David Haldane, Times Staff Writers
Wendy Vernon did something Tuesday that most parents do only in nightmares: She signed documents certifying that her three children are dead. "This is a horrible day," she said, choking back tears and holding onto her daughter's doll. "You can't begin to understand. It was the hardest thing I've ever done." Vernon's children -- Amber, 12, and twin 10-year-olds Matthew and Robert -- died Saturday while visiting their father, Todd Vernon, at his home in Santa Clara.