Fullerton Ca

A man who stabbed two fellow moviegoers during a Sunday night screening of a bloody horror movie in Fullerton was still being sought Tuesday, police said. The attack, described by police as random, began about 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the AMC theater in the 1000 block of South Lemon Street. Half an hour into "The Signal," a man seated in a back row stabbed a lone moviegoer in front of him, police said.

The shuttered storefronts have been replaced by some 40 upscale restaurants, jazz clubs and bars. The tattoo parlors, pawn shops and antique stores have given way to boutiques, sidewalk cafes and luxury apartments. After two decades of redevelopment, Fullerton's once sleepy downtown has become a destination for the young, hip and well-heeled. About the only thing Fullerton's suddenly trendy central district lacks is a high-rise.

Among the best of these shopping districts is the stretch of Harbor Boulevard in old Fullerton from Commonwealth Avenue to a hop beyond Chapman Avenue. Here and along finger streets and alleyways are dozens of gems inside buildings that date to the 1920s. That alone should put you in a different mind-set. A requisite kids' stop is CM School Supply (210 N. Harbor Blvd.), filled with educational and art toys, books and yard equipment. There's even a section for infants.

The two deaths inside a Fullerton home have been blamed on a 40-year-old man who fatally stabbed a 12-year-old girl and then committed suicide, police said Wednesday. The relationship between Damian Camillo Flores and Janette Jimenez, whose parents rented him a room, had increasingly concerned her family before their bodies were found Tuesday afternoon, Sgt. Linda King said. Last month, she said, Janette's parents had asked Flores to move out, and he was in the process of doing so.

With a three-year commitment and $100 down, police officers now can buy homes in this city for half price. The City Council on Tuesday decided to enroll Fullerton in a federal program aimed at encouraging officers to buy homes in the cities they serve. Dubbed the "Officer Next Door," the Department of Housing and Urban Development program offers police officers across the nation the chance to buy foreclosed properties in troubled areas where a police presence can make a difference.

A Fullerton man awaiting sentencing for fraud has been ordered to repay $16 million to 130 investors, but his assets are expected to cover only 20% to 30% of the losses, authorities said Tuesday. Scott K. Yoshizumi, whose Cerritos-based Concord Capital Inc. promised returns of 2% to 4% a month, didn't contest a civil fraud lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

An 18-year-old Fullerton man was stabbed to death allegedly by an acquaintance Sunday morning at his girlfriend's house, police said. Mitchell Curran's girlfriend came out of the shower about 9:30 a.m. in her home in the 300 block of North Lilly Street to find him lying on the floor with multiple stab wounds. The girl, a minor, told police Curran had been arguing with Jason Tufte, 24, of Fullerton.

A 39-year-old motorcyclist killed on the Santa Ana Freeway in Fullerton on Friday night was identified as William Baclawski of Buena Park, the Orange County coroner's office said. Baclawski died after a Dodge Dakota swerved and hit his motorcycle. He was then was struck by a tractor-trailer while he was on the ground. The driver of the Dodge, Ricardo Cedeno of Anaheim, 32, failed a sobriety test, the California Highway Patrol said.

An 18-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting in Fullerton, marking the city's first homicide this year. Leonardo Rojas was standing in front of his apartment in the 3000 block of Garnet Lane about 10:42 p.m. Wednesday looking at loudspeakers he was considering buying. Witnesses told police a green Ford Explorer pulled up with several male passengers, all of whom had shaved heads. A young man in the front passenger seat pointed a handgun out the window and fired once, witnesses said.

It was never a secret. Chevron officials have planned for more than 30 years to develop the rolling Coyote Hills on the northern edge of Fullerton -- once the site of bountiful oil wells -- and build hundreds of new homes. Maybe the city's 126,000 residents forgot or figured it would never happen, hoping their once-rural town could cling to its last major stretch of open land even as homes sprung up all around. But it soon might.