The Los Angeles Police Department has launched internal investigations on the officials of the officers in two houses in San Fernando Valley where they investigated violent assault reports, but did not find the victims because they did not enter.
In both incidents, the people who call reported having heard or witnessing a violent and active assault on the dispatators of 911, and then a body was found in each location.
On Tuesday, LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell went to the two incidents during a meeting of the City Civil Police Commission, the Department's Supervision Board. McDonnell recognized that the officers did not immediately enter any of the households and said he opened administrative investigations in relation to their responses.
Menashe Hidra's body was found on April 26 inside his apartment in the Valle del Quinto Floor village after an assailant broke into a neighboring unit, jumped from his balcony to his and attacked him.
Three days before, the neighbors called the authorities to say that they heard shouts, then a man shouting: “I will die. I will die,” according to sources of the law. The officers responded to those calls, knocked on the door and left without finding anything.
The same day that Hidra's body was discovered, like Aleksandre Modebadze's body, who was beaten to death inside his house of Woodland Hills. In that case, a woman inside the house called 911 and reported the assault, but the officers who arrived hit and left. Just when they returned later they found Modebadze, injured in death.
At Tuesday's meeting, Commissioner Rasha Gerges Shields asked the boss how the department determines whether a call is a possible false call, often known as a call of “swelling”, aimed at triggering a great police response to the victim's direction, or legitimately one where “someone who may need their help” is within the premises.
It's hard, said the boss. When the officers arrive and nobody responds to them, the 911 operators will try to call the person who calls more information and see the previous incidents in the same direction to help the officers decide. The officers will also try to talk to the neighbors before entering a location, McDonnell said.
“There is a sensitivity not to kick a door and enter a place,” he said. “So we are doing a fairly deep immersion in that.”
Currently, the two homicides do not seem related, added the boss.
Although the suspects in the homicide of Woodland Hills have been arrested, the man seen in the ring door chamber that stalked the corridors of the Valley Village Apartment Complex, where Hidra was killed, remains exceptional. The boss said investigators believe they have identified the assailant, who has a history of violent crimes.
Hidra's body was discovered inside his apartment on the upper floor in the Ashton Sherman village complex around 2:30 pm, by Van Nuys division officers doing a social assistance control after a friend worried. He was declared dead on the scene. He had a puncture wound in the head, and there was blood beside him on the floor, according to sources familiar with the police report.
The blood stained wall between Menashe Hidra's apartment and a neighboring vacancy.
(Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times)
The officers had been called to the apartment three days before by the neighbors.
In a recording of a police dispatch call before 4 in the morning of April 23, a dispatcher is heard informing the call to the officers in the field: “Van Nuys units, possible Adw [assault with a deadly weapon] In Progreso … the person who calls listens to two men fighting and fighting, hitting and screaming. “Multiple sources of application of the law say that police officers responded to the scene but never entered the apartment.
One day before Hidra's body was discovered, LAPD officers investigated a robbery in the vacant apartment next door. Inside, the officers found a destroyed Claraboya and dry blood, according to two unauthorized sources to discuss the investigation.
The researchers suspect that the murderer may have broken into the hidra's neighboring vacant apartment through a Claraboya, then moved from the balcony of the unit to his.
The bloody footprints and the marks were visible on the wall between the Hidra balcony and the vacant apartment later when a journalist visited the residents last week. The blood was also visible in the handle of the door of a ladder exit, where the assailant is seen fleeing the building in a video published by the police.
Blood was left in a door handle on the ladder in the Valley Village Apartment Complex, where Menashe Hidra was killed.
(Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times)
The suspect was seen with a dark hooded jacket, a white shirt and blue jeans on the day of the murder.
The same day Hidra's body was discovered, through the valley in Woodland Hills, 47 -year -old Modebadze, suffered a fatal head injury. Three assailants broke up during the early hours of Saturday, Los Angeles Police said.
A woman called LAPD around 12:30 am and informed that three people had broken into her house and hit her partner before the call was suddenly cut, according to sources of application of the law. The 911 operator tried to return several times without success. Shortly before 1 in the morning, the officers arrived at the house, but no one responded to the door, there was no noise from inside the house and the blinds were low, the fountains told the Times.
Modebadze was later found by battered officers with a traumatic lesion in the head and finally died from his wounds.
According to sources of application of the law, the woman filed a complaint before the LAPD against her officers for her response.
The officers of the Lapd Marshal working group, with the help of the FBI, located suspects in the murder of Modebadze in a matter of hours and arrested them.
