A 20-year-old mother and her boyfriend have been arrested after the woman's 2-year-old son found a gun hidden in a couch and fatally shot himself.
A candlelight vigil was held in Pomona in honor of a 16-year-old boy who authorities say was abused, tortured and killed, allegedly by his stepmother.
"She's a monster. She's not a stepmother...He's 16 years old. He had a future ahead of him." The slaying of a 16-year-old boy and the arrest of his stepmother on murder, abuse and torture charges have shocked a Pomona neighborhood.
Police say a Pomona woman killed her 16-year-old stepson, while the boy's father did nothing to prevent prior abuse by her.
The family of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez wants to make sure people remember the murdered Palmdale boy with a mural in downtown Los Angeles that will serve as a remembrance to abused children.
A Palmdale woman who pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of her 8-year-old son, Gabriel Fernandez, has filed court papers seeking a new hearing in her case.