Lancaster CA- First of all, for those of you that don’t know it, Lancaster is the new Compton of Southern California. Its a desert community in Los Angeles County, and it has a rather large criminal element that moved from south central Los Angeles after the Rodney King riots.

What I want to know is why a person would bring a meat thermometer to a movie theater in the first place.

The woman who was talking on a cell phone during a movie didn’t take to kindly to being ’shushed’ by another moviegoer. Or at least her boyfriend didn’t.

In a drama that turned more lively than the one on screen, the boyfriend allegedly attacked and stabbed the ’shusher’ in the neck. With a meat thermometer.

According to KTLA:

The stabbing occurred last Saturday at the Cinemark 22 theater at 2600 West Avenue I in Lancaster, according to Detective Richard Cartmill of the Lancaster sheriff’s station.

Deputies say that while the movie was playing, a woman was talking on her phone and the victim asked her to turn it off.

The victim was attacked by the woman’s boyfriend and another man. Deputies say he was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer.

The stabbing victim is expected to survive and is recovering at a local hospital. Two others who tried to help the victim were also injured, according to KTLA.

According to Sheriff’s officials, the suspects were described as black males. One man was wearing an orange hat with an orange jersey and the other man was dressed in a black hooded sweatshirt.

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Reading the comments on this website, I had no idea that Victoria Hope was concealing her pregnancy. How can anyone not notice the weight gain of a woman carrying triplets? Are her parents the dumbest humans on earth? What the hell is going on up there in Connecticut? Geez.

SHELTON — Victoria Hope bled to death Tuesday while delivering three stillborn babies, according to autopsy results from the state’s Chief Medical Examiner’s Office, never picking up the phone to call for help.

Instead, it was Hope’s mother, Frances — who returned to their Redwood Circle home unaware of her daughter’s pregnancy — who grabbed the phone and called 911.

Victoria Hope, who was known as Tori, apparently told no one she was pregnant, police said Wednesday as friends and family continued to come to grips with the death of the 26-year-old and her triplet sons.

When officers arrived, they found her on her bedroom floor bleeding, Detective Sgt. Kevin Ahern said. While they were tending to her, officers found two of the babies on the bedroom floor and the third on the bathroom floor, he said, adding none could be revived.

Detective Ben Trabka said police believe even the children’s father didn’t know she was pregnant. “But we believe she knew she was pregnant.” They suspect that, he said, because she had made up a false medical condition to explain why she was gaining weight.

It wasn’t clear whether the woman knew she was carrying triplets before giving birth early Tuesday afternoon. Her father, William Hope, acknowledged Wednesday that his daughter was “big” and said he doesn’t know why she hid her pregnancy.

“That’s going to be the question we’ll never have an answer for,” he said.

Hope was the mother of two children, a 6-year-old son, Devin, and a 2-year-old daughter, Gabriella, with long-time boyfriend Ricky Miller Jr. He is assumed to be the father of the triplets, but only DNA testing can determine that, Trabka said.

Hope’s tragic death sent shock waves through her circle of friends.

“She was cool. I wasn’t like real great friends with her,” John Cude informed friends on his Facebook wall. “But when I (and) she hung out she was always super nice. I read the story (about her death). This is awful and unfortunate to the fullest.”

Her devotion to children was also evident in the community. In December, she showed up to speak out against budget cuts to the Shelton school system that would have resulted in teacher layoffs.

At the Wonder Years Learning Center in Shelton, which Devin attended until he started kindergarten two years ago, Hope is remembered as a “thoughtful,” “kind-hearted” and “involved mom.”

“When her son left our preschool to start kindergarten, she called to let us know she had gotten a lot of compliments on how well he was doing, how smart he was and how social,” Laura Lipinsky, co-owner of Wonder Years Learning Center, said. “Then she bought a pizza lunch for the whole staff and everybody. She thought we deserved some of the credit for how well her son was doing, and she appreciated us and that she wanted us to know that.”

Hope had recently been laid off from her job, Trabka said.

Her mother, Frances Hope, found her daughter and the newborn babies dead in their Redwood Circle home when she returned home around 1 p.m., he said.

Hope had been home all day, Trabka said, and her 2-year-old daughter also was in the house at the time of her mother’s death.

Frances Hope called police when she found her daughter, Trabka said, but emergency officials received no calls before that from Hope.

“There were no calls that came into the Police Department from the home before that,” he said, and police have not been able to find a record of her contacting anyone else that day.

The mother declined to comment on her daughter’s death Wednesday, only saying that the family is devastated.

She said funeral arrangements would be announced Thursday.

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I don’t know what makes a person snap like this and kill an infant out of spite. What a horrible situation. How can anyone hurt a their own child? I found this on Google News and I thought that perhaps someone might know this guy and have information for law enforcement. The number to the San Bernardino Country Sheriff is at the bottom of this article. Ed.

A two-and-a-half-year romantic relationship gone sour came to a tragic end early Sunday when a distraught father led sheriff’s deputies on a chase through the mountains before pulling into a snowbank in Blue Jay and killing his infant son and himself.

Deputies said Stephen Charles Garcia, 25, of Pinon Hills, shot his 9-month-old son Wyatt at 1:19 a.m. before turning his Walther P-99 pistol on himself on a lonely stretch of Old Toll Road.

Aided by a department helicopter, sheriff’s deputies, who had pursued Garcia after deputies from the Hesperia station had trailed him into the mountains, arrived at the scene only seconds after the fatal shots were fired, said Twin Peaks Lt. Dwight Brink.

“Deputies from the Hesperia station were following him,” Brink said. “Local deputies were staged, and intercepted him. It was hard to keep him in sight,” he added, given the icy condition of roads in the Twin Peaks and Blue Jay areas that night.

Twin Peaks deputies backed off their pursuit, Brink said, for fear that an innocent person might be injured.

“It was pretty miraculous that no one was hurt in the chase,” Brink said, “and that there was no damage to any other vehicles. There were very treacherous conditions for a chase.”

According to a Twin Peaks crime report, members of the family of Katie Tagle, Wyatt’s mother, own three homes on Peak Spur Road in Twin Peaks, perhaps offering an explanation for why Garcia fled into the mountains.

FORMER ARROWHEAD RESIDENTS

Another possible explanation is that, according to a statement filed in court by Tagle during her legal wrangles with Garcia, the two had lived together in Lake Arrowhead at an unspecified previous time.

Throughout the day on Jan. 30, Garcia reportedly was in near constant phone or texting contact with Tagle, repeating threats to kill their son if they could not reconcile and inviting her to join them so he could kill them all and they could be together in heaven.

Garcia left a rambling, emotional 17-paragraph suicide note in his white Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. Until the chase reached its fatal conclusion, Wyatt sat, strapped in a child’s seat, in the back seat of the extended-cab truck. A copy of the note was obtained by this newspaper.

Throughout the note, titled “So This is Goodbye,” Garcia stressed his great disappointment over not being able to reconcile with Tagle, with whom he had lived in his parents’ home before-reportedly tired of being physically abused by him-she moved to Yucca Valley.

“Everyone kept saying give it time, keep going to court, keep doing what your doing,” Garcia’s farewell letter stated. “No body got it. Not even Katie. I didn’t want to fight Katie. I didn’t want shared custody of Wyatt. I wanted my family back.

“What good is having Wyatt full time, or 50/50 without Katie. I would of had to live with my parents forever, be alone, have Wyatt go back and forth for years to the guy Katie cheated on me with,” Garcia wrote. “I would of never been happy.”

‘LOVE YOUR FAMILY’

The note, obtained from Tagle’s family by the Hi-Desert Star of Yucca Valley, this newspaper’s sister publication, finished by stating, “I’m sorry. We love all of you. Be with your family. Live out your lives, be happy. Do not dwell on what I have done. Move on with your lives and cherish every minute of it. HOLD AND LOVE YOUR FAMILY! PLEASE IT’S MY FINAL WISH.”

The note also has a paragraph addressed to members of Katie’s family and certain of the couple’s acquaintances, who apparently attempted to head off any possible reconciliation.

“I will see you in f______ hell,” the bitterly worded paragraph reads. “I held the gun, you pulled the trigger. I cried for help. I told you this would happen. I told you to help me get my family back but you laughed at me…the blood is on your hands.”

Along with the note, this newspaper also obtained from Tagle’s family a copy of a court document which suggests Wyatt might still be alive had a judge ruled differently on a petition Tagle filed in a Victorville court just 10 days before the murder-suicide.

In her petition, heard by Judge Robert Lemkau, Tagle requested a restraining order against Garcia and a permanent end to his unsupervised Thursday-through-Sunday visits with Wyatt. Instead, Tagle requested supervised-only visits, said Stacy Moore, managing editor of the Hi-Desert Star, who interviewed members of Tagle’s family.

A week earlier, Moore said, Judge David Mazurek, assigned to the Joshua Tree courthouse, had issued an emergency protective order, temporarily banning Garcia from unsupervised visits with Wyatt.

‘DIDN’T WANT TO LISTEN’

Moore quoted Rick Tagle, Katie’s ex-husband and father of her son Dakota, as telling her, “The (Victorville) judge had not read the exhibits. Just from the very beginning, he didn’t want to listen. He started out by saying, ‘one of you is lying. I think it’s you,’ and pointed to Katie.”

Moore said Rick Tagle told her Lemkau ordered Katie and Garcia to work out their differences in mediation. He then reinstated Garcia’s unsupervised visits, Tagle’s family told Moore.

In her petition, Tagle claims Garcia is mentally ill. She states he had sent her an e-mail on Jan. 13 under the pseudonym “John Hancock.” The e-mail included a story he’d written, titled Necessary Evil, which told how he views their relationship.

The narrative unfolds in a way “ultimately leaving the petitioner (Tagle) with the ultimatum of reconciling or otherwise respondent (Garcia) was going to drug parties’ nine-month-old son to death before respondent takes his own life. This was to take place by the ‘lake,’ referring to Lake Arrowhead where parties used to reside together.”

The petition does not state where the couple had lived locally, nor how long they lived here.

The short story, a copy of which was also obtained by this newspaper, lists two endings, one happy and another tragic. In the first the couple reconciles, while in the second the father kills himself and his sons.

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

The petition also claims Garcia “has a history of hitting petitioner.” She quoted an e-mail he had sent her, in which he reportedly said, “I’m sorry for hitting you.”

Another document from Tagle’s family is a printout from Garcia’s MySpace page in which he refers to Rylee Skye Garcia. Moore said she was told Rylee is the daughter Stephen Garcia fantasized having with Tagle. Rylee’s mythical life span is listed as 5/9/2007 through 12/9/09. Moore said the former date was when Garcia met Tagle, while the latter is when he reportedly learned Tagle was in a relationship with another man.

The materials from Tagle’s family also include a document described as Garcia’s second-to-last letter to her. It’s a single-spaced, six-page missive which caustically attacks Tagle for hiding the identity of her new lover and, with the extensive use of profanity in capital letters, challenges her to examine her life.

A final document from Tagle’s family purports to be a Facebook message, running five pages long, sent to Katie on Jan. 17. It has countless repetitions of the same eight words: “How is he, is he ok? call now,” apparently referring to Wyatt.

Detectives from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the murder-suicide. The department asks anyone with information about the incident to contact Sgt. Frank Montanez or Detective Ryan Ford of the department’s Division of Specialized Investigations at (909) 387-3589.

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