SANTA ANA, Calif. — The man charged with opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation of mainly elderly people in Southern California wanted to “execute in cold blood as many people in that room as possible,” a prosecutor said Tuesday in announcing murder, attempted murder and other charges for the shooting that killed one person and wounded five. “But what …
Alexander Neville, 14, died of fentanyl consumption after taking what he thought was an Oxycontin pill in June 2020. Some Southern California district attorneys are joining a growing national push to file murder charges against drug dealers who manufacture or sell fentanyl that ends up leading to deaths. Loyola Law professor Laurie Levenson said that to gain murder convictions, prosecutors …