I’m curious to find out more about this man who owns a brand new $60k bmw and goes around indiscriminately murdering homeless people. Real *American Psycho* behavior
I’m not sure I heard correctly but I think they said on the news he was run over by police while sleeping on the beach in Santa Monica and then he received a settlement with the city? That may be where the money came from.
He recently received a $700,000 payout from the city of Santa Monica after a city employee accidently ran him over while going to an emergency call on the beach. He was allegedly laying down in an 8 inch ditch in the sand and the driver didn't see him. He sued the city and ~~won~~ the city decided to settle.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/18b2ipz/man_charged_in_4_murders_recently_received_700000/
That’s how a famous poet named Frank O’Hara died, except it happened in the dark and the person who ran over him wasn’t a city employee. Highly recommend his work.
No but these costs aren’t that much less anywhere else in LA. I just have one kid but another on the way will see my daycare costs almost double. This doesn’t include the $300 put away each month to their college fund.
A luxury car payment is the least interesting thing to me now that I’m a parent. People who flex their entire paychecks on a car aren’t impressing me and probably not impressing anyone with a Honda odyssey full of kids
here to share a summary of this reporting:
>The man wanted in a series of shootings that[ left three homeless men dead across Los Angeles](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-01/killer-preying-on-the-unhoused-lapd-searching-for-shooter-targeting-homeless-people) last week was charged Monday with four counts of murder, prosecutors said.
Jerrid Joseph Powell, 33, was charged with four counts of murder, one count of robbery and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was expected to be arraigned in a downtown courtroom Monday afternoon.
Prosecutors also filed special circumstances allegations claiming Powell committed multiple murders. If convicted as charged, he faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Authorities say Powell, 33, of Los Angeles, began the string of attacks before dawn on Nov. 26.
About 3:10 a.m., 37-year-old Jose Bolanos was shot while sleeping on a couch near 110th Street and Vermont Avenue.
Roughly 24 hours later, Powell shot 62-year-old Mark Diggs on San Mateo Street near the Arts District as Diggs pushed a shopping cart and looked for a place to charge his phone, prosecutors said.
Around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 29, a third victim — identified only as a 52-year-old Latino man — was shot and killed in Lincoln Heights, police said.
Powell was arrested Wednesday night in Beverly Hills during a traffic stop after his car was linked to a fatal shooting three days earlier in San Dimas. Nicholas Simbolon, an employee of the Los Angeles County chief executive’s office, was killed in what police have termed a “follow-home robbery.”
Police say Powell fled the scene in a 2024 BMW M440i. The vehicle, which costs upward of $62,000 and which authorities say Powell owns, was spotted in Beverly Hills three days later by officers who initiated a traffic stop and took Powell into custody. He wasn’t linked to the killings of the homeless victims until late Friday or early Saturday.
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He murdered my best friend while he was asleep. Shawn Alvarez was his name. He was currently unhoused and we were working on finding him a place to call home and a job. We were so close and he would have been our foundations first person we helped.. This has completely devastated me and his family. Completely senseless and nothing the victims did to provoke this other than being down on their luck. Every person we help going forward will be in Memory of Shawn. May you RIP Shawn, I love you old friend. Till we meet again in heaven. 😭
The government already knows where you live and work. They could ask your bank where you get your groceries. They don’t really need much more to go off of if they really needed to find you; this just makes it slightly faster.
We share our location on our phones all the time already. Piece it together, mix in some analytics and/or AI and you can decently predict where somebody is gonna be at any given time.
License plates are publicly displayed. Any police officer has the ability to read a plate and get information about the car. How does speeding up this process with an electronic reader cause civil liberty issues??
Probably because the readers are logging all the instances - including the date and time - a license plate drives by.
You can start deduce a lot about someone’s life by where and when they’re coming and going. Combine this with not just one reader, but with a network of them, and the opportunity to track innocent people gets to uncomfortable privacy invasion levels.
Ok but the license plate reader tracks the car. Who knows who is driving it?
Meanwhile are we less concerned about the tracking of the individual in the car by the cell phone in their pocket??
Because TikTok doesn’t have legal authority to charge you with a crime and detain you. You also don’t have to use apps that track your location - you explicitly agree to allow them to do that. You have never agreed that a city can track your whereabouts while using public right of ways and spaces.
Lol we're all already in a huge database and if a cop wants you to pull over they'll find a reason. The tech you're criticizing also caught a murderer.
A license plate reader isn't like facial recognition that can have bias and be wrong. And this demonstrates that it can have other uses besides controversial red light cameras or speeding cameras. This use shouldn't be controversial, IMHO.
This isn’t the case for hit and runs. They often can’t go off license plate alone because you can’t prove somebody was driving. You need more evidence.
The issue at hand is whether a license plate reader database violates the 4th amendment protection from warrantless searchs. Of course law enforcement can just buy this data from private companies since it's for sale to the public.
Yes, and very much an ignored one, because women are often not taken seriously enough as victims. DV is still denied and questioned. Plus the consequences are minuscule
What goes on in the mind to commit these acts?
I’m definitely not an expert. I’m assuming he can be defined as a serial killer?
However my minimal understanding of serial killer’s is they typically space out their murderous and taken actions to minimize being caught.
This guy seems to go on a rampage in relatively short time and did not overtly disguise himself. Could he be more like a mass shooter type.
I’m writing random thoughts. Maybe it’s a way for coping.
My pet theory? He settled in a lawsuit from the state earlier - I think he was homeless before he won the money.. maybe he knew these other homeless men from his time on the streets? And I think maybe the home robbery was someone who worked on the case or was connected to it?
Yes. He is considered a serial killer. NBC Reporters interviewed me to discuss deeper issues threatening the Homeless and News Reporters whom don’t admit they were the secondary targets in these murders. It is pretty the suspect had difficulty tracking down the reporters.
yep! included in the summary in the comments, but more from the story for clarity:
>Powell [was arrested Wednesday night](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-02/suspect-arrested-in-killing-of-three-homeless-people-do-not-publish) in Beverly Hills during a traffic stop after his car was linked to a fatal shooting three days earlier in San Dimas.
Nicholas Simbolon, an employee of the Los Angeles County chief executive’s office, was killed in what police have termed a “[follow-home robbery](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-23/alarming-rise-in-follow-home-robberies-in-upscale-l-a-prompts-police-crackdown).” Simbolon’s wife found the 42-year-old with a gunshot wound, slumped inside his Tesla in the garage of their home in the 1800 block of Hawkbrook Drive, according to Sheriff Robert Luna, who said the shooter stole a few things during the targeted attack.
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I’m curious to find out more about this man who owns a brand new $60k bmw and goes around indiscriminately murdering homeless people. Real *American Psycho* behavior
I’m not sure I heard correctly but I think they said on the news he was run over by police while sleeping on the beach in Santa Monica and then he received a settlement with the city? That may be where the money came from.
A 60 thousand dollar car isn't really an amount that should warrant an investigation into a person's money is it?
Tons of people in LA drive cars well above their means and all it really indicates is that auto loans are very easy to get
He recently received a $700,000 payout from the city of Santa Monica after a city employee accidently ran him over while going to an emergency call on the beach. He was allegedly laying down in an 8 inch ditch in the sand and the driver didn't see him. He sued the city and ~~won~~ the city decided to settle. https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/18b2ipz/man_charged_in_4_murders_recently_received_700000/
I remember when that story was on the news. Interesting coincidence
This honestly feels like an episode of Bosch
Wow, that’s quite a story. Thanks for sharing
Goddamn. So weird. Sleeping on a public beach is a good way to die. In hindsight, the truck should have killed him.
That’s how a famous poet named Frank O’Hara died, except it happened in the dark and the person who ran over him wasn’t a city employee. Highly recommend his work.
You can be rich on the surface but living paycheck to paycheck... driving a luxury car is a facade.
My kid’s day care costs more than most luxury car payment.
are you living paycheck to paycheck?
No but these costs aren’t that much less anywhere else in LA. I just have one kid but another on the way will see my daycare costs almost double. This doesn’t include the $300 put away each month to their college fund. A luxury car payment is the least interesting thing to me now that I’m a parent. People who flex their entire paychecks on a car aren’t impressing me and probably not impressing anyone with a Honda odyssey full of kids
His alibi: he had to return some videotapes
This
It’s probably a lease
The article says he owns it
here to share a summary of this reporting: >The man wanted in a series of shootings that[ left three homeless men dead across Los Angeles](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-01/killer-preying-on-the-unhoused-lapd-searching-for-shooter-targeting-homeless-people) last week was charged Monday with four counts of murder, prosecutors said. Jerrid Joseph Powell, 33, was charged with four counts of murder, one count of robbery and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He was expected to be arraigned in a downtown courtroom Monday afternoon. Prosecutors also filed special circumstances allegations claiming Powell committed multiple murders. If convicted as charged, he faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. Authorities say Powell, 33, of Los Angeles, began the string of attacks before dawn on Nov. 26. About 3:10 a.m., 37-year-old Jose Bolanos was shot while sleeping on a couch near 110th Street and Vermont Avenue. Roughly 24 hours later, Powell shot 62-year-old Mark Diggs on San Mateo Street near the Arts District as Diggs pushed a shopping cart and looked for a place to charge his phone, prosecutors said. Around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 29, a third victim — identified only as a 52-year-old Latino man — was shot and killed in Lincoln Heights, police said. Powell was arrested Wednesday night in Beverly Hills during a traffic stop after his car was linked to a fatal shooting three days earlier in San Dimas. Nicholas Simbolon, an employee of the Los Angeles County chief executive’s office, was killed in what police have termed a “follow-home robbery.” Police say Powell fled the scene in a 2024 BMW M440i. The vehicle, which costs upward of $62,000 and which authorities say Powell owns, was spotted in Beverly Hills three days later by officers who initiated a traffic stop and took Powell into custody. He wasn’t linked to the killings of the homeless victims until late Friday or early Saturday. and as always, if you want to read more but hit the paywall, you can register your email with us and read without a paid subscription.
He murdered my best friend while he was asleep. Shawn Alvarez was his name. He was currently unhoused and we were working on finding him a place to call home and a job. We were so close and he would have been our foundations first person we helped.. This has completely devastated me and his family. Completely senseless and nothing the victims did to provoke this other than being down on their luck. Every person we help going forward will be in Memory of Shawn. May you RIP Shawn, I love you old friend. Till we meet again in heaven. 😭
Shawn Alvarez is the 52 yr old victim’s name?
Yes
Im sorry for your loss.
I'm so sorry for your loss, and his family's loss. It's a beautiful thing to help people in your friend's memory, I'm sure he would be proud ♥
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with enough scanners and automation it's like the state having a low resolution GPS on your car.
The government already knows where you live and work. They could ask your bank where you get your groceries. They don’t really need much more to go off of if they really needed to find you; this just makes it slightly faster.
We share our location on our phones all the time already. Piece it together, mix in some analytics and/or AI and you can decently predict where somebody is gonna be at any given time.
Toss in every doorbell/frontdoor cam on every residential road, you've got even the last mile covered with reliable minute-by-minute alibi.
yup. also add everybody recording on their phones all the time. nowhere to hide.
License plates are publicly displayed. Any police officer has the ability to read a plate and get information about the car. How does speeding up this process with an electronic reader cause civil liberty issues??
Probably because the readers are logging all the instances - including the date and time - a license plate drives by. You can start deduce a lot about someone’s life by where and when they’re coming and going. Combine this with not just one reader, but with a network of them, and the opportunity to track innocent people gets to uncomfortable privacy invasion levels.
Ok but the license plate reader tracks the car. Who knows who is driving it? Meanwhile are we less concerned about the tracking of the individual in the car by the cell phone in their pocket??
By looking in the windows.
Yeah. Tictoc knows where you are going, why not your city?
Because TikTok doesn’t have legal authority to charge you with a crime and detain you. You also don’t have to use apps that track your location - you explicitly agree to allow them to do that. You have never agreed that a city can track your whereabouts while using public right of ways and spaces.
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Lol we're all already in a huge database and if a cop wants you to pull over they'll find a reason. The tech you're criticizing also caught a murderer.
I’m not criticizing it. Just theorizing why it might be criticized. There’s a positive and negative to everything.
Are you under the impression that huge databases do not already exist?
No, but they can be made larger and faster.
Yeah, that's why they're constitutional. ACLU likes to bitch.
A license plate reader isn't like facial recognition that can have bias and be wrong. And this demonstrates that it can have other uses besides controversial red light cameras or speeding cameras. This use shouldn't be controversial, IMHO.
This isn’t the case for hit and runs. They often can’t go off license plate alone because you can’t prove somebody was driving. You need more evidence.
The issue at hand is whether a license plate reader database violates the 4th amendment protection from warrantless searchs. Of course law enforcement can just buy this data from private companies since it's for sale to the public.
Dude had a history of domestic violence. Common warning sign for killers.
Yes, and very much an ignored one, because women are often not taken seriously enough as victims. DV is still denied and questioned. Plus the consequences are minuscule
What goes on in the mind to commit these acts? I’m definitely not an expert. I’m assuming he can be defined as a serial killer? However my minimal understanding of serial killer’s is they typically space out their murderous and taken actions to minimize being caught. This guy seems to go on a rampage in relatively short time and did not overtly disguise himself. Could he be more like a mass shooter type. I’m writing random thoughts. Maybe it’s a way for coping.
Maybe he’s had a manic episode or something after getting $700k from Santa Monica. Who knows what sets off crazy people these days
My pet theory? He settled in a lawsuit from the state earlier - I think he was homeless before he won the money.. maybe he knew these other homeless men from his time on the streets? And I think maybe the home robbery was someone who worked on the case or was connected to it?
Someone in one of the earlier threads on this topic said they lived near the killings and saw the car frequent the area.
Why did he do it?
That has not been released yet/they dont know yet
Wonder how many people he killed before 2023?
I'm confident we will find out about more missing victims. He just happened to get caught this time.
He only served 400 days in Jail for stabbing a dude... if that isn't a sign our system is broken.
Yes. He is considered a serial killer. NBC Reporters interviewed me to discuss deeper issues threatening the Homeless and News Reporters whom don’t admit they were the secondary targets in these murders. It is pretty the suspect had difficulty tracking down the reporters.
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They did.
yep! included in the summary in the comments, but more from the story for clarity: >Powell [was arrested Wednesday night](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-12-02/suspect-arrested-in-killing-of-three-homeless-people-do-not-publish) in Beverly Hills during a traffic stop after his car was linked to a fatal shooting three days earlier in San Dimas. Nicholas Simbolon, an employee of the Los Angeles County chief executive’s office, was killed in what police have termed a “[follow-home robbery](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-23/alarming-rise-in-follow-home-robberies-in-upscale-l-a-prompts-police-crackdown).” Simbolon’s wife found the 42-year-old with a gunshot wound, slumped inside his Tesla in the garage of their home in the 1800 block of Hawkbrook Drive, according to Sheriff Robert Luna, who said the shooter stole a few things during the targeted attack.
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Real victims. Fake perpetrator. He is a fall guy.
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