The Los Angeles Police Service launched internal investigations on the police ‘responses in two houses in the San Fernando Valley where they investigated violence reports, but did not find the victims because they did not go inside.
In the two incidents, the appellants said they had heard or attended an active violent assault on the distributors of the 911, and later an organization was found at each location.
On Tuesday, the LAPD chief Jim McDonnell, addressed the two incidents at a meeting of the City Police Commission, the supervisory board of the ministry. McDonnell admitted that the officers did not immediately entered one or the other house and said that he had opened administrative surveys related to their responses.
The body of Menashe Hidra was found on April 26 in his apartment in the Valley Village on the fifth floor after an attacker burst into a neighboring unit, jumped from the balcony to his and attacked it.
Three days earlier, the neighbors called the authorities to say that they heard, then a shouting man: “I’m going to die. I’m going to die, ”according to sources of application of the law. The agents answered these calls, struck the door and left without finding anything.
The same day that Hidra’s body was discovered, the body of Aleksandre Modebadze, which was beaten to death in his house in Woodland Hills. In this case, a woman inside the house called 911 and reported the assault, but the police arrived and left. It was not until his return later that they found Modebadze, deadly injured.
During Tuesday’s meeting, Commissioner Rasha Gerges Shields asked the chief how the ministry determines whether a call is a possible false appeal, often known as the “blurring” appeal, intended to trigger a great police response to the victim’s address, or legitimately a person where “someone who may need your aid” is inside the principles.
It’s difficult, said the chief. When the officers arrive and no one answers them, the operators of the 911 will try to recall the original caller to obtain more information and examine the previous incidents at the same address to help the agents to decide. Agents will also try to speak with neighbors before entering a place, said McDonnell.
“There is a sensitivity not to kick a door and to enter a place,” he said. “So we make a fairly deep dive on this subject.”
Currently, the two homicides do not seem to be linked, added the chief.
Although the suspects of the Woodland Hills homicide were arrested, the man seen on images of ring door cameras tracking down the corridors of the Valley Village apartments where Hidra was killed remains exceptional. The chief said the investigators thought they had identified the attacker, who has a history of violent offenses.
Hidra’s body was discovered inside her high-end floor apartment at the Ashton Sherman village complex around 2:30 p.m. by officers from the Van Nuys division making a wellness check after a friend was worried. He was declared dead on the scene. He had an injury to the head, and there was blood next to him on the ground, according to sources familiar with the police report.
The blood -stained wall between the apartment of Menashe Hidra and a neighboring vestige.
(Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times)
Police had been called in the apartment three days earlier by neighbors.
In a registration of a police dispatch call before April 4, a distributor is understood to report the call to officers on the ground: “The van Nuys units, possible adW (assault with a deadly weapon) in progress … The calling hears two men fight and fight, strike and shout.” Several sources of application of the law said that the police responded to the scene but never entered the apartment.
One day before the discovery of Hidra’s body, LAPD officers investigated a burglary in the vacant apartment next door. Inside, the police found a broken light well and dried blood, according to two unauthorized sources to discuss the investigation.
The investigators suspect that the killer may have entered the vacant apartment that Hidra neighbor through a well of light, then moved from the unity balcony to his own.
Bloody hands footprints and marks were visible on the wall between the Hidra balcony and the vacant apartment after a journalist visited residents last week. The blood was also visible on the handle of the door of a staircase, where the attacker is seen fleeing the building in a video published by the police.
The blood was left on a handful of staircase cage door in the Valley Village apartments complex where Menashe Hidra was killed.
(Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times)
The suspect was seen wearing a dark hood, a white shirt and blue jeans on the day of the murder.
The same day, Hidra’s body was discovered, through the Woodland Hills valley, Modebadze, 47, underwent a deadly head of the head. Three attackers broke into the early hours of Saturday, Los Angeles police announced.
A woman called LAPD around 12:30 p.m. and reported that three people had entered her home and beat her partner before the call suddenly cut, according to sources of law. The operator 911 tried to recall several times without success. Shortly before 1 a.m., the police arrived at home but no one answered the door, there was no noise from inside the house and the blinds were broken, the sources in Times told.
Modebadze was then found by poorly beaten police officers with a head trauma and finally died of his injuries.
According to sources of application of the law, the woman has filed a complaint with the LAPD against her officers for their response.
The agents of the LAPD Marshal working group, with the help of the FBI, located the suspects in the murder of Modebadze in a few hours and placed them in police custody.
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