NEWS
March 18, 2001 | SCOTT GOLD, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Despite the jailhouse suicide of a man suspected of murdering one son and chaining two others in a bedroom, prosecutors vow to forge ahead with the charges against two women, one now a widow, who lived with the man in a camouflaged desert compound near Twentynine Palms. John "Rajohn Lord" Davis, 53, hanged himself March 9 with a bedsheet in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Morongo Basin substation jail. An investigation into his death continues, sheriff's officials said Friday.
NEWS
September 26, 1987 | ERIC MALNIC, Times Staff Writer
A massive explosion at a fireworks plant, apparently detonated by a distraught husband committing suicide, hurled chunks of concrete the size of television sets over more than a square mile before dawn Friday. Two other people were injured--neither seriously--when the blast leveled the Celebrity Fireworks Co. plant in the barren, largely undeveloped scrubland on the northwestern edge of this San Bernardino County town.
NEWS
May 25, 1998 | From Associated Press
A 15-year-old boy died a day after shooting himself in the head at Rialto High School, a hospital official said Sunday. Ricardo Martin died at about 7 p.m. Saturday at Loma Linda University Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Anita Rockwell said. Martin had been in critical condition on life support since firing a .38-caliber bullet at his right temple before class Friday in the school quadrangle. A gun was reported missing from his family's home in Colton, about 50 miles east of Los Angeles.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 24, 1992 | BERNICE HIRABAYASHI, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Sun-bleached bones believed to be those of fugitive Robert Michael Allen, accused of gunning down a Hollywood producer and his son at a Culver City intersection in 1991, were discovered in the desert north of Twentynine Palms by hikers, Culver City police said Wednesday. The remains were found Tuesday, scattered alongside the bones of Allen's girlfriend, Susan Lynn Calkins, 28, who was reported missing three days before the shooting, Police Sgt. Hank Davies announced at a news conference.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
February 17, 1990 | NIESON HIMMEL, TIMES STAFF WRITER
An Anaheim man shot and killed himself Thursday after he fatally wounded his 25-year-old estranged girlfriend as she fled her Ontario apartment, police said. Rodney Terry Cornegay, 30, died instantly after he pointed a shotgun at himself and pulled the trigger, said Ontario Police Lt. Don Manning. An Ontario police officer fired three shots at Cornegay, but it is unknown, pending an autopsy, whether he was hit by the police bullets, Manning said.
NEWS
March 20, 1987 | LOUIS SAHAGUN, Times Staff Writer
A 37-year-old self-employed computer programmer committed suicide at his home on Wednesday after sexually assaulting a female Internal Revenue Service agent who had arrived at his residence for a scheduled audit of his business, authorities said. Clifton Charles Johnson was found nude in a sleeping bag in the backyard of his home, with a single shotgun wound to the head, according to Jim Bryant, spokesman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department.