A person was hit by a vehicle in a traffic collision involving a school bus at a Compton intersection Thursday morning, officials said.

A person was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries from the intersection of Wilmington Avenue and Laurel Street, where the collision was reported at about 6:25 a.m., according to the Compton Fire Department.

Authorities didn't say what vehicle struck the pedestrian, but confirmed that a school bus was involved in the collision. A short school bus was seen at the intersection.

A man who led police on a short pursuit through North Hollywood and Burbank early Thursday was shot and killed after officers say he rammed into an LAPD patrol car, police said.

The chase began when Los Angeles police officers of the North Hollywood Division followed a suspected stolen car with paper plates driving erratically near Magnolia Boulevard and Riverton Avenue about 1:45 a.m., LAPD Officer Preciado said.

Officers followed the car, and the driver sped off, leading to a pursuit into Burbank that lasted only six minutes, Preciado said.

After pulling into a "makeshift cul-de-sac" near Pass Avenue and National Boulevard in Burbank, the driver then began ramming the passenger side of the patrol car, Preciado said.

The officer in the passenger side fired shots at the man, and the man ran away on foot down an alley west of Pass Avenue, he said.

Preciado said officers took the man into custody after the chase, and then Burbank firefighters arrived and pronounced the man dead.

Additional details about when exactly the man died after being struck by gunfire were not clear.

Preciado said the car was stolen, and it was not known if the man was armed.

A pet rescue and retail store in Southern California that places dogs in their "forever homes" may be looking for a new home of its own.

The landlord of the Studio City property is attempting to evict Lucky Puppy Rescue and Retail from its current unit, the rescue's owner said.

"It’s not fair. It’s Lucky Puppy. We save dogs for goodness sake. They don't have to do it the way they’re doing it. They're just being nasty," owner Rachel Kennedy said.

The optical business that was operating next store has since moved out, complaining of a stench. The pet shelter claims they looked into the matter and had the building's air systems examined and cleaned. The health department also inspected the space twice.

"Both times we passed with flying colors, we got an A," Kennedy said.

The property owner has asked Lucky Puppy to leave the space, citing an addendum that the owner says is fraudulent. Kennedy maintains she never signed the document.

The landlord's attorney declined to comment on the pending eviction.

Kennedy told NBC4 that she didn’t think "he [the landlord] ever expected us to fight back and the community has helped us so much."

Lucky Puppy retained a lawyer and is "fighting back," she said. "We won our first round in court."

The shelter's supporters have started a petition and are raising money for their next battle in court.

Community members often stop by the Studio City shop simply to see the rescue dogs. A little girl named Sophie told NBC4 that she's heard the news about Lucky Puppy and "it makes me feel sad and disappointed."

Those who wish to donate to Lucky Puppy can do so at their Facebook page.

Police released surveillance photos Thursday that may help locate the driver who struck a 14-year-old boy in Santa Ana and took off over the weekend.

The boy suffered a severe brain injury in the hit-and-run, and was fighting for his life, his family said Monday.

The high school freshman, only identified by his family as Juan, was struck as he walked to school on Saturday.

The surveillance photos released Thursday morning showed a black BMW.

The driver is not visible in the photos and the license plate number is difficult to make out.

Detectives said they were searching for a 2001-2006 BMW 300 series. It has a missing mirror and fog light with damage to the passenger side fender, police said.

Police found the teen lying in the street unconscious at the intersection of Fairview Street and Civic Center Drive at 8:10 a.m. Saturday.

The boy’s family only identified him as Juan, and said he was a boy who loves science and the band "Coldplay."

He was in critical condition at UC Irvine Medical Center as of Thursday.

A University of San Diego law student has filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming college officials discouraged her from reporting an alleged rape by two fellow students.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights is investigating how the college handled reports of the same incident.

The lawsuit, filed Feb. 13, says the 29-year-old woman was raped by two men in the bathroom at an off-campus party in May 2013. The woman told NBC 7 she did not immediately report the incident to police because she was afraid.

"It's horrifying and stigmatizing. I didn't want to be that girl that got raped. Nobody does," she said.

But when she discovered one of her alleged attackers was in her evidence class the next fall semester, she informed her professor.

The court papers and the woman's attorney, Dan Gilleon, say the professor and university officials discouraged her from reporting the incident to the San Diego Police Department and from pursuing administrative action against the men.

"I felt that they didn't really care," she said. "They made me feel like there wasn't very much they could or would do for me." 

"They informed Doe that female students alleged sexual assault 'all the time,' and specifically mentioned a particular (but unnamed) female student that was 'handling it on her own,'" the lawsuit says.

David Bristol, an attorney who represented the two accused students, said USD took her allegations very seriously, conducting their own investigation through the school police department.

School officials appointed a three-member panel to hold an administrative hearing on the incident.

“They heard all the evidence and heard from witnesses and based on everything they heard, they determined she had not met her burden to show my clients had violated any policies and procedures of the university,” said Bristol.

But the lawsuit claims hearing officers allowed “false evidence” to be introduced about the woman’s sexual history and interests.

“They had their friends come up to me, you know, up there during this hearing and call me a slut and say, you know, I'm known to be a whore,” said the woman, who is referred to in court papers as Jane Doe. “And these are people that don't even know me.”

When the panel determined the men were not responsible for the allegations, the woman elected not to appeal the decision, Bristol said.

"There was no investigative aspect to the hearing. There was no fact-checking. It was basically he-said; she-said and what I said wasn't enough for them. Actually, it was he-said she-said and they were allowed to present a few witnesses who called me a whore and that was basically the administrative hearing," the woman said. 

A spokeswoman for USD said the university is limited in what it can say about the specifics of the lawsuit.

"We respect the privacy of all of our students, especially related to sensitive issues of this nature, and we do not discuss student matters like this publicly," Pamela Gray Payton wrote in an email response to questions from NBC7.

The alleged victim said the university wouldn't explain their investigative process to her and refused to ensure her confidentiality if she identified her alleged rapists.

"I just felt very alone," said the woman who asked not to be identified. "I felt alone and unsupported and I didn't know what to do because nobody was helping me through the situation. I was completely on my own."

The woman said she was forced to drop out of school for a time and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result.

When she returned a few months later, she had a no contact order against the two men, although it has changed her interactions with the school itself. She said she only goes there for classes and avoids networking and social events with other students.

“I've already lost so much, and so much of my life has been destroyed,” she told NBC 7. "I had to leave my work briefly just to recover emotionally from this. At this point, there is very little left for me to lose." 

Her attorney Dan Gilleon said his client decided to file this lawsuit to help women who have been too afraid to report sexual assaults against them.

"She said, 'Listen, I'm going to come forward. I'm going to be a lawyer sometime soon. I'm going to be representing victims, and I'm not going to take the path that USD was kind of encouraging for me,'" Gilleon said.

She has since reported the case to the San Diego Police Department, which opened its own investigation, the court document says. No charges have been filed against the men.

"They're still walking around campus when I'm going to class. They're still there. I have to see them whether I like it or not." 

The woman told NBC7 she didn't think she move forward with her life or be someone who is supposed to be upholding the law as an attorney without coming forward and speaking out.

"And maybe more women can start to feel like they can report these things because no woman should have to go through what I went through," she said. "No student signs up to be raped at school." 

A U.S. Education Department investigator told NBC 7 their investigation into how USD handled the incident started last December.

The university could lose millions of dollars in federal funding if the department finds it has policies and procedures that violate laws regarding sexual violence.

"If you're gonna take state and federal money -- millions and millions of dollars they take of state and federal money -- then you have to comply with state and federal law," said Gilleon, "which says that when a woman comes forward and says she's been raped, you need to embrace her, you need to protect her, you've got to make sure that she feels safe."

He said the school has about one month to respond to the lawsuit against them.

The search for the brother of a woman fatally shot in San Gabriel ended with his arrest Thursday night in Riverside County, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department.

Johnny Goins, 31, was detained by local authorities  at a Moreno Valley shopping mall around 8:30 p.m. Los Angeles County deputies took him into custody and booked him for murder in the shooting death of his sister, Tanaya, 32, in an incident described by detectives  as domestic violence.

She was shot in the apartment where she was raising her 12 year old son in the 5100 block of Rosemead Boulevard. Deputies responding to a call of shots fired found her already dead. The son was transported to a local hospital with a wrist injury determined not to be serious. How he had suffered the injury, investigators could not immediately say.

Family members gathered to mourn the loss, their pain all the more unbearable after it became apparent her brother had been identified as the suspected shooter.

"She didn't deserve to die like this. Not from her brother...This ain’t right," said a cousin.

It was not clear to neighbors how long the brother had been staying at the apartment. They knew more about the significant other who lived with Tanaya Goins in an apparently volatile relationship.

Neighbor Mary Espinosa, who lived across the courtyard, said she heard frequent arguments.

Three days ago, Espinosa said, Tanaya Goins threw his clothes at him outside the door and he went to another apartment.

Shortly after 6:30 a.m. Thursday, Espinosa said she heard Goins shouting. Shortly thereafter, neighbors heard three to four shots, and the voice of a man who was yelling.

Investigators determined the voice was that of the significant other, who remained at the scene — not the brother who left, and is believed to have taken the gun with him.

Arriving deputies also found the 12 year old son with an injury to his arm.

Espinosa said he was holding his wrist, shaken and praying for his mother.

The son went to the hospital, the injury determined to be not serious.

Tanaya Goins' mother showed a photo and shared a poignant epitaph.

"She was going to school to be a criminal investigator," her mother said. "She was just finishing up."

A utility truck plowed into the front of a home in Gardena Thursday morning causing major structural damage to the residence.

The crash happened at the 2900 block of W 139th Street shortly before 11 a.m.

An elderly couple that was home during the crash was not injured.

A large pulley attached to a Los Angeles County Fire Department truck was used to pluck the white vehicle out of the home's living room area.

The driver suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene of the crash.

It took firefighters nearly an hour to remove the truck.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department pursued a vehicle on the freeways and streets in Los Angeles County, officials said.

A white car, reported stolen, sped down freeways from Norwalk, sheriff's deputies said. Two people were reportedly in the car: a man, who was driving, and a woman.

The car pulled into the parking garage of a Target in Azusa. Minutes later, police were seen arresting a man and woman.

Sheriff's deputies confirmed that officers with the Azusa Police Department took two people suspected of stealing the car into custody.

Officers are @Target completing an investigation. The store is open for business/no harm to the community at this time. #expectmorepayless

— Azusa Police (@AzusaPD) March 5, 2015

A passenger jet skidded off a runway at LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence as it tried to land amid a blinding wintry mix Thursday morning, sparking a minor fuel leak in one of its wings, prompting evacuations and injuring several people, Port Authority officials say. 

There were 127 passengers, including Giants tight end Larry Donnell, and five crew members on board Delta flight 1086, an MD-88 headed to New York from Atlanta, Georgia, when it slid off the runway around 11 a.m., authorities said. Two dozen people reported minor injuries, according to the FDNY, and three of those people were taken to the hospital.  

Passengers described feeling turbulence as they landed, like a rocking motion. One said the jet hit the runway and didn't slow down until it smashed into the fence, inches from the water.

The impact caused a minor fuel leak on the plane's left wing, the Port Authority said. The fuel was leaking at a rate of about 1 gallon per minute, but fire crews were able to quickly stop the leak. 

LaGuardia's two runways were shut down immediately after the accident and the city's Office of Emergency Management said all incoming and outgoing flights had been suspended. Several LaGuardia-bound flights were diverted and nearly 900 flights were canceled. One of the runways reopened around 2 p.m., allowing air traffic to resume, though travelers were advised to check the status of their flights with their carriers. 

About 3 inches of snow had fallen in New York at the time of the accident, but wind, sleet and snowflakes combined to hamper visibility and make paved surfaces slippery. NBC 4 New York meteorologists say freezing fog was observed near LaGuardia around 11 a.m., which likely coated the already snow-topped runways with an icy glaze and may have contributed to the accident.

Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye said that the two planes that arrived on Runway 13 before Delta 1086 landed smoothly, with pilots reporting good braking ability. Foye added that the runway was plowed shortly before the plane skidded off the runway.

Audio logs from LiveATC.net provide a clearer picture of the circumstances before and after the accident. About 30 minutes before the scheduled Delta flight 1086 landing, air traffic controllers are heard asking ground crews about the conditions of Runway 13. 

According to the logs, the crews advise traffic control there is about a quarter inch of wet snow on the runway and a snow bank about a foot high. The tower repeats the conditions back.

"Affirmative, and the runways have not been treated," crews respond, according to the LiveATC.net logs. "We're just grooming and plowing."

The logs later capture the moment air traffic controllers try to get in touch with the flight.

"Delta 1086 ... Delta 1086? Delta 1086, tower are you with me?" controllers are heard saying.

The pilot does not respond, and controllers are heard over the next few minutes speaking with ever-increasing urgency as the assess the situation. 

"The airport is closed, the airport is closed. We have a 3-4," one voice says.

"We have an aircraft off the runway. LaGuardia Airport is closed at this time." 

Photos posted to Twitter and other social media showed the tail of the plane dipping into the snow; the nose was pointed upward and appeared to be damaged. Other photos showed the front of the plane smashed through the fence as passengers climbed out onto a wing and trudged through snow to safety. 

Video posted to Instagram from Donnell shows orderly exits as passengers respond to directions from officials in orange reflective vests. Donnell said later he and the other passengers were scared, but otherwise mostly OK; he said he felt "blessed."

"I feel fine physically and hopefully all the other passengers did not have any significant injuries," the Giants player said in a statement released by the team. "We were all shocked and alarmed when the plane started to skid, but most importantly, as far as I know, all of the passengers and flight crew were able to exit the plane safely.” 

Multiple emergency crews from different agencies, federal and local, respond to the scene. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating.

In a statement, Delta said all customers deplaned safely and were transported to the terminal.

"Our priority is ensuring our customers and crew members are safe," the airline said. "Delta will work with all authorities and stakeholders to look into what happened in this incident."

In October, a Delta MD-88 flight from Atlanta with about 63 people on board struck the concrete pier supporting the same runway involved in Thursday's accident, and had its landing gear ripped off. The 75-ton plane skidded, 2,700 feet on its nose wheel and belly; the fuselage cleared the pier by only 16 inches, according to NTSB data. Three minor injuries were reported. 

A group of dad bloggers is pushing Amazon to rename its “Amazon Mom” membership program to a more inclusive “Amazon Family” in the United States.

The campaign, which started over two years ago, has gained a new momentum this week, following the death of blogger Oren Miller, an early champion of the campaign.

The “Amazon Mom" program, which caters to new parents and caregivers and provides discounts on diapers and other kid-centric items, already is called "Amazon Family" in the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries where Amazon operates.

Miller, a father of two who died on Feb. 28 after a nine-month battle with lung cancer, asked Amazon back in 2013 to call the program what it’s named in many countries outside the U.S.

“It's not about a name and it's not about me personally being offended,” Miller wrote on his blog, Blogger and a Father. "… It's about a company that looks at the U.S., then looks at England, and then decides that over there, parent equals mom or dad, while here, well, we're not ready for that yet.”

The number of dads who stay at home with their children has risen in recent years from 1.1 million in 1989 to up to 2 million in 2012, according to the Pew Research Center.

Miller first drew attention to the name in 2013 when he pointed readers to a petition established by another blogger, Jeffrey Harrington, a dad from Kansas.

On March 3, Miller’s fellow bloggers restarted the campaign, using the hashtag #AmazonFamilyUS and sharing a graphic created by Chris Routly, who publishes the Daddy Doctrines, to ask the company to change the name.

By Thursday afternoon, Harrington's change.org petition gathered over 5,200 signatures.

“This is not a case of dads versus moms,” wrote Carter Gaddis, a member of the 1,000-strong dad blogger community Miller founded, and a “Today” contributor. “We’re not angry. We’re baffled, frankly, because most of us believe that Amazon is better than this.”

As of Thursday afternoon, Amazon has not responded to a request for comment.

About 4 million American households include at least one adult with increasing memory loss or confusion, a new federal study shows,

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study is the first to report on worsening memory loss or confusion in households and could offer insight into the health and financial consequences for families. Older adults with complaints about memory have a greater risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, which is potentially a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease.

Matthew Baumgart, the senior director of policy for the Alzheimer’s Association, told NBC Owned Television Stations that the findings should be a "wake-up call for the long-term care system."

“It is really important to look at these numbers, and for the public health system to take notice,”  Baumgart said. “It’s a wake-up call for the long-term care system. It should be a wake-up call for the federal government to invest more in the research so that we can change the trajectory of the disease.”

The researchers analyzed data from the 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, looking at households in 13 states in which at least one adult had memory loss or confusion that had gotten worse in the last 12 months.

They found that included 12.6 percent of households. In 5.4 percent of households, all of the adults had experienced increased memory loss or confusion.

The researchers wrote that their findings highlighted the magnitude of the problem and could affect public policies.

“For example, increasing awareness about recognition of signs and symptoms of cognitive decline in self or others can allow household members to seek medical advice and plan for future needs,” they wrote.

Baumgart said that there was an epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States and that the numbers were projected to get even worse.

“We’re going to go from over 5 million Americans living with the disease today to as many as 16 million by 2050 — that’s tripling the number of people who are living with this disease,” Baumgart said. “It’s the most expensive disease in America so you can imagine the burden that this huge growing number of people with it will is going to have on our system unless we do something about it.”

Baumgart said that the CDC’s data on people beginning to have memory problems was important as a good predictor for future dementia.

“It is really important to look at these numbers, and for the public health system to take notice,” he said. “It’s a wake-up call for the long-term care system. It should be a wake-up call for the federal government to invest more in the research so that we can change the trajectory of the disease.”

A second report, also from the CDC, looked at the age and health of Americans with memory limitations and also difficulties functioning. It found that they tended to be younger.

Those researchers looked at data for people 45 years or older from 21 states that participated in the 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.

“Eligibility for services is often age-dependent; our findings underscore a need to ensure assistance for people who have increased confusion or memory loss and functional difficulties but who do not meet the present age-related eligibility requirements,” the researchers wrote.

NBC Owned Television Stations' Jennifer Vasquez and Evan Carr contributed to this report.
 

Eleven-year-old San Franciscan Cash Ashkinos can't afford the tuition for an entrepreneurial summer camp, so he's turned to crowdfunding to raise money.

His IndieGoGo campaign was closing in on $2,000 in donations at the time of this writing, which is just shy of a $2,500 goal that he has set in order to attend Camp Inc., a Jewish entrepreneurial camp in Colorado.

The initiative caught the eye of a writer at Time.com, who wondered whether Cash may be "The Next Mark Zuckerberg?"

"I think that people see on the video how earnest and excited he is about the camp and want to help him," his mother Tanya Schevitz told NBC Bay Area. "You can see in the video that he's both nervous and excited. He's an 11-year-old, and he comes off that way, and I think people can see how real the campaign is."

Schevitz noticed that many people have donated money in increments of 18, an important number in Judaism that represents good luck.

"That makes me feel good and shows Cash that his Jewish community cares," she said. "I didn't grow up with a Jewish community around me, and I love that he has that."

Cash said in his video that if he exceeds his $2,500 goal, he'll donate the rest to the Camp Inc. scholarship fund for other children to use.

Cash once created a lemonade stand to raise enough to go to a summer camp that he was interested in; his mother said that this campaign is a natural extension of his entrepreneurial spirit and his aptitude with computers.

"I'm pretty sure that his future is in the world of Silicon Valley," she predicted, noting that he currently dreams of designing video games.

Cash is part of a growing wave of children across the country leveraging sites like IndieGoGo for their educational pursuits.

A 9-year-old in Massachusetts raised over $20,000 on Kickstarter to develop an original role playing game for RPG Camp. Her goal was just $829.

Organizers behind a proposed stadium for the Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers in a Los Angeles suburb filed paperwork Wednesday to bring their plan before voters.

Submission of the ballot initiative to the city of Carson, California, marks an incremental step in development of the $1.7 billion project.

If approved, it would modify zoning laws to allow construction of a stadium on the site of a former landfill.

Organizers, funded by the two teams, could begin collecting petition signatures as soon as next week to place the plan on the ballot. They'll need to get 8,041 signatures in the next 180 days.

The Raiders and Chargers announced last month they are planning a shared stadium in Carson if both teams fail to get new stadiums in their current hometowns.

A ballot approval would put the plan on the same footing as another NFL stadium project 10 miles away in Inglewood that is backed by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke.

The fast-tracked Inglewood plan last week got to skip the ballot process with a simple City Council vote because it is being added to an already-in-progress development.

Yet another stadium plan, for downtown Los Angeles, also remains alive, but has no team attached.

UPDATE: Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Officer Wilson was at the GameStop to buy a gift for his son.

Philadelphia Police are in mourning after the loss of one of their own.

Officer Robert Wilson III, an 8-year veteran with the 22nd District, died from his injuries after he was shot several times at close range during an attempted robbery inside a North Philadelphia GameStop.

The 30-year-old father left behind two young children, as well as a grandmother.

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"Take a moment and say a prayer for this family," said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey. "And this 9-year-old boy who will now grow up without a father. A 1-year-old is going to grow up without a dad because of what happened today."

Wilson, who was in full uniform, along with his partner, went inside the GameStop at the Hope Plaza Shopping Center on 2101 West Lehigh Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Suddenly, two armed men came inside and announced a robbery.

"We don't know if they knew he was a police officer or not," Ramsey said. "We suspect, perhaps, they did not."

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Wilson immediately confronted the pair, leading to a shootout. The suspects, who were on both sides of the officer, shot at him several times at close range as Wilson returned fire, officials said.

"Even though he was being struck multiple times, he continued to fire until the fatal was fired," Ramsey said.

Customers at the shopping center ran for cover. Sharon Coffield, an employee at the nearby Rainbow Clothing Store, told NBC10 she heard the gunshots and then witnessed part of the shooting.

"My assistant manager ran to the door," Coffield said. "She was getting ready to pull down the bleachers and that's when she saw the cop out there shooting!"

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Wilson's partner heard the gunfire and shot at the suspects as well, police said.

"Whoever was in the GameStop, they must've been shooting out," Coffield said. "And he was like, shooting in. And he was running across the lot."

One of the suspects was struck though police have not yet confirmed whether he was shot by Wilson or his partner.

The second suspect who wasn't struck fled the store and tried to blend in with a crowd outside but was quickly apprehended by responding police officers, according to investigators.

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A call for an officer down went out at 4:44 p.m. and Wilson was rushed to Temple University Hospital, where he died from his injuries at 6:25 p.m.

"I knew him," Ramsey said. "He was one of the best police officers this city has to offer. A very, very brave, heroic individual. Even though he was struck multiple times he was able to continue to fire." 

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The suspect who was shot was taken to Einstein Hospital, though officials have not yet revealed his condition. Police also said the suspects had priors, and one was on parole.

Police later recovered the suspects' weapons at the scene of the shooting, a .40-caliber and a 9mm. One of the weapons had an extended clip, allowing the suspect to fire more rounds than usual, officials said.

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Wilson along with his partner were part of the group of 22nd District Officers who volunteered to participate in the trial run of the Philadelphia Police body camera program. During our interview with him in December, Wilson told us he wanted to work to rebuild trust between police and the community.

"It's less negative reaction from the community," Wilson said. "They're recording us and we're recording them also." 

Ramsey also said he met Wilson through the body camera program.

"I had a chance to meet all of them when I stopped by there to talk to them and thank them for volunteering," he said.

Ramsey did not confirm whether or not Wilson was wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting. Police were able to recover surveillance video from the GameStop however. The video was reviewed by homicide investigators.

Ramsey, who is part of a national task force focused on law enforcement's relationship with the local community, also spoke on the danger police officers face on a daily basis.

"People tend to lose sight of the dangers inherent in being a police officer," Ramsey said. "Sometimes they're seriously injured or even murdered as a result of trying to protect every single person in this city...He put his life on the line to make Philadelphia a better city and a safer city."

A police procession was held for Officer Wilson Thursday night as an ambulance transported his body to the Medical Examiner's Office.

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf also released a statement on Wilson's death.

“My deepest condolences are with Officer Robert Wilson’s family tonight and his colleagues at the Philadelphia Police Department, especially the officers of the 22nd District," Wolf wrote. "This senseless act is devastating and a stark reminder of the danger faced everyday by our brave men and women in uniform. Across Pennsylvania, members of law enforcement and our first responders put their lives on the line to protect our families and our communities. We can never forget their selfless service and sacrifice.”

Officer Wilson is the eighth Philadelphia Police officer to die from a gunshot since 2006, according to the Fraternal Order of Police. Moses Walker, who was also from the 22nd District, was the last Philadelphia Police officer to lose his life. He was shot and killed after finishing his shift back on Aug. 18, 2012.

One of the gunmen convicted in Walker's death will be formally sentenced to life in prison Friday.

There may be only one queen crowned on prom night, but that didn't stop dozens of high school students from feeling like princesses Thursday.

"Every girl wishes to go to prom. I didn't have a dress and I was talking to my therapist and she introduced me to this," said high school senior Karen Ibanez in her newly chosen black gown and pointy gold pumps. "I was so happy I got the dress because now I can go to prom."

Ibanez is one of 80 teenage girls participating in Operation School Bell Prom Day, an annual event hosted by the Assistance League of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Unified School District that gives donated dresses, shoes and accessories to low-income and homeless students from 20 LAUSD schools.

Normally, Operation School Bell dresses homeless elementary school students. But once a year, the organization turns its focus to an older set.

"Today is making underprivileged homeless girls from Los Angeles Unified School District feel like a princess and have their Cinderella moment," said Linda Levine, co-chair of Prom Day at Operation School Bell.

These students represent thousands of young people in Los Angeles who face incredible challenges like homelessness and poverty, while maintaining grades and attendance, supporters of the program say.

Volunteer stylists helped the young women pick out the perfect outfit in a "pop-up boutique" for their special nights.

High schooler Lorena Lopez was on the hunt for a red dress - not too long ago, she wasn't even sure she was going to prom.

"I was having doubts on whether or not to go because of all the expenses that have to be covered," Lopez explained. "Learning about this opportunity was just a bonus for me. I was like, I have to go because it's amazing how people actually donate to give us."

Traffic snarled in Santa Monica on the westbound 10 Freeway at Lincoln Boulevard due to police activity Thursday morning.

The dead body of a male in his 60s was found near a homeless encampment, Sgt. Rudy Camarena said, a Santa Monica Police Department spokesman.

A prlimarinary investigation showed no signs of foul play, he added.

Officials closed the left lane of the westbound off ramp and a Sigalert was issued shortly before 11 a.m. The lane was reopened several hours later.

Aerial footage showed crime tape strung across the grassy divider between the Lincoln Boulevard exit and highway. Several SMPD officers were on scene investigating the area.

A third shooting victim died Thursday, one day after gunshots were sprayed into a crowd outside of a nightclub and gas station in San Bernardino.

Up to 30 shots were fired into a crowd of around 200 people in the parking lot of the Stingers Bar and NightClub before 2 a.m. Wednesday, killing one person, officials said. Minutes later, another person was fatally shot at a nearby ARCO gas station.

A third shooting died about 5 a.m. Thursday, San Bernardino Police Lt. Richard Lawhead said.

Lawhead also said one person was taken into custody but did not release additional details.

One person remained in critical condition Thursday, and three others were treated and released from the hospital.

The ordeal began earlier in the evening when a group of people had been denied entry into the club, police said, because security recognized them as gang rivals of patrons who were already inside.

After they were turned away, they hung around the parking lot, and police were called to remove them from the property, police said. The group left when police arrived, but returned to confront the other group as the club was closing.

Investigators are asking anyone with information to call the San Bernardino Police Department at 909-384-5742.

A second man pleaded not guilty to murder Thursday in connection with a fatal car crash that left two spectators of a Chatsworth street race dead one week ago.

Irael Valenzuela, 38, has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. His arrest Tuesday followed the Saturday arrest of a 21-year-old man as police investigated a deadly hit-and-run crash.

A Ford Mustang was racing another car when it lost control, skipping over a curb and plowing into a crowd of spectators on a sidewalk in Chatsworth at about 2 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, police said.

The crash left two people dead and a third in critical condition, according to police. Eric Siguenza, 26, and Wilson Thomas Wong, 50, were identified by the LA County Coroner's office as the two people who died.

Another man was also charged with murder in connection to the case earlier this week.

It is unclear if investigators believe Valenzuela was behind the wheel of either of the cars caught on cellphone video racing.

Detective Bill Bustos, who is investigating the case, declined to say what role police believe Valenzuela played in the race.

"I’m not focusing on the driver. I’m saying that they are 'participants' in this illegal street race," he said.

Valenzuela's attorney, Jay Jaffe, said outside court that the charges are excessive.

"This really should not have been filed as a 'murder,'" Jaffe said. "But — if filed at all — it should have been filed as 'vehicular manslaughter.'"

That charge would carry a lighter penalty.

On Tuesday, Henry Michael Gevorgyan, 21, pleaded not guilty to murder charges in connection with their deaths. Prosecutors allege that Valenzuela and Gevorgyan promoted and organized the street race.

Prosecutors connected Gevorgyan to the car, but his attorney said cellphone video shows he was standing on the street at the starting line of the race, not driving one of the cars.

Both men face 33 years to life in prison if convicted and their bail has been set at more than $2 million each.