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CITY & STATE
LAPD CHASE ENDS IN CRASH
Al SeibLos Angeles TimesLos Angeles police officers investigate the site of a crash at 1st Street and Broadway after a police pursuit in downtown L.A.closely monitor, especially
when they occur close to ma-
jor faults.
The cluster of small
earthquakes Monday is in
an area that may be along
a hypothetical unmapped
southeastern section of the
Superstition Hills fault,
Hauksson said. The Super-
stition Hills fault ruptured in
a significant earthquake in
1987, a magnitude 6.6 event
called the Superstition Hills
earthquake.
Currently, the Supersti-
tion Hills fault is mapped as
ending roughly nine miles
from the city of El Centro.
But it’s possible the fault
continues under the heart of
the city, and evidence of the
fault may be hidden by sedi-
ments that have filled up a
valley, Hauksson said.
The epicenter of Mon-
day’s magnitude 4 earth-
quake is about 25 miles
southeast of the epicenter ofthe Superstition Hills earth-
quake of 1987. The Supersti-
tion Hills quake, which fol-
lowed a magnitude 6.2 tem-
blor on a nearby fault that
hit 11 hours earlier, caused $
million in damage and in-
jured 94 people in Imperial
County and left 3,000 people
temporarily homeless in the
Mexicali area of Mexico.
Monday’s quakes were
also just four miles from the
Imperial fault. It last rup-
tured in a quake causing ma-
jor damage in the 1979 Im-
perial Valley quake. That
magnitude 6.4 earthquake
caused $30 million in dam-
age, injured 91 people, and
damaged more than 1,
homes and over 400 com-
mercial buildings.
An average of 234 earth-
quakes with magnitudes of
3.0 to 4.0 occur each year in
California and Nevada, ac-
cording to a recent three-
year data sample.A swarm of small earth-
quakes struck near the Cali-
fornia-Mexico border, cen-
tered beneath the town of
El Centro in Imperial
County.
Scientists are closely
watching the cluster, which
began at 6:07 p.m. Monday
with a magnitude 2.8 quake,
followed six minutes later by
the largest quake so far, a
magnitude 4. There were 18
aftershocks within the first
two hours, Caltech seis-
mologist Egill Hauksson
said.
By Tuesday morning,
there had been dozens of
aftershocks, including a
magnitude 3.3 quake that hit
just before 2 a.m.
No damage was reported
in El Centro, which has a
population of about 44,000.El Centro is the seat of Im-
perial County, one of the na-
tion’s most important agri-
cultural regions.
The region has been hit
hard in past quakes, most
recently during the magni-
tude 7.2 earthquake that
struck south of the Califor-
nia-Mexico border on Easter
Sunday in 2010, killing two
people in Mexicali and dam-
aging buildings on both
sides of the border.
This part of California,
about 180 miles southeast of
downtown Los Angeles, is
routinely a source of interest
among seismologists when
earthquakes happen there.
The region was particularly
active with earthquakes in
the late 1970s and 1980s.
“Swarms in this region
are often prolific and can last
for weeks,” Hauksson said.
“There’s no lack of faults
there.”
Swarms of small quakesare not unusual for this area,
Hauksson said. “These have
happened numerous times
before without being fol-
lowed by a major earth-
quake,” he said.
Swarms of small quakes
are not a reliable predictor of
earthquakes that cause ma-
jor damage, seismologist
Lucy Jones says.
Jones said two of the big-
ger quakes in historic time
closest to Monday’s swarm,
a magnitude 6.9 earthquake
in 1940 and a magnitude 6.
quake in Imperial Valley in
1979, came without any pre-
ceding swarm of small
earthquakes.
Hauksson said earth-
quake scientists would mon-
itor the earthquake se-
quence closely. Although
there is no way to predict the
exact time and location of
California’s next damaging
earthquake, small earth-
quakes are still important toQuakes hit California-Mexico border
Swarm of small temblors causes dozens of aftershocks, no damage in El Centro
By Rong-Gong Lin II
and Jaclyn CosgroveA Long Beach man has
been charged with three
counts of murder in connec-
tion with a Halloween night
crash that killed a mother,
father and their 3-year-old
son, according to the Los
Angeles County district at-
torney’s office.
Carlo Navarro, 20, was
also charged with gross ve-
hicular manslaughter while
intoxicated. The charges in-
clude an allegation of caus-
ing death to multiple vic-
tims.
Police say Navarro
swerved onto the sidewalk
along Country Club Drive
near Los Cerritos Park
shortly before 10 p.m. Oct. 31
and struck Joseph Awaida,
30; his wife, Raihan Awaida,
32; and their 3-year-old son,
Omar. All three died of their
injuries.
Navarro was arrested on
suspicion of driving under
the influence and gross ve-
hicular manslaughter fol-
lowing the crash. He was re-
leased from jail after posting
a $100,000 bond and re-
booked on Thursday on a
no-bail hold for two counts of
manslaughter. At the time,
he was in custody for an un-
related burglary warrant.
Navarro faces charges of
burglary, vandalism and
possession of burglary toolsin connection with a June 30
break-in, in which author-
ities say he broke a glass win-
dow at a vape shop in the
Bixby Knolls area. Investi-
gators found him with a
mask, bolt cutters and a
backpack containing more
than $600 worth of stolen
merchandise, Long Beach
city prosecutor Douglas
Haubert said.
Navarro was arrested
that day but was released
July 1, jail records show. The
Long Beach city prose-
cutor’s office sought an en-
hanced bail of $500,000 after
the Halloween crash.County prosecutors are now
seeking to hold him without
bail.
Joseph Awaida died at a
hospital Halloween night af-
ter being struck by a 2002 To-
yota Sequoia police say was
driven by Navarro.
Awaida was working at
his father’s auto shop and
had dreams of becoming a
doctor. His young son,
Omar, died two day later.
The boy’s mother, Raihan
Awaida, died the following
day. She had received a mas-
ter’s degree in social work in
May from Cal State Long
Beach and had been apply-ing for jobs in that field.
The tragedy has brought
an outpouring of support
from Long Beach’s Muslim
community. More than 4,
people have raised about
$230,000 in a GoFundMe
campaign. Thousands at-
tended a memorial last week
at the Islamic Society of Or-
ange County.
Faisal Dakhil, Raihan’s
father, said that as he
grieves, he has taken com-
fort in hearing stories about
his daughter from people
who knew her. The young
couple have been described
as dedicated to communityservice, both in the Muslim
community and at organiza-
tions such as For the Child, a
nonprofit that helps sus-
pected victims of child
abuse.
“I see they are massing
together to continue in their
legacy and their spirit,”
Dakhil said of community
members who have pledged
to continue the Awaidas’
spirit of giving. “They’ve
been inspired to keep this
kind of quest going. And that
makes us feel happy and
makes me feel like Raihan as
a person is still with us,
working through them.”Murder charges in Long Beach Halloween crash
AMY GARCIAplaces a bouquet of flowers at a memorial for the Awaida family earlier this month.Gina FerazziLos Angeles TimesA family of three
was killed when a
car jumped the curb
and struck them.
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A rapper who collabo-
rated with several West
Coast hip-hop artists who
rose to fame in the 1990s died
Monday while being held in
jail in Riverside County, au-
thorities confirmed.
The 43-year-old rapper
born Jamarr Antonio
Stamps, known as Bad Azz,
was arrested in Wildomar on
Friday afternoon on suspi-
cion of domestic violence.
He was being held in lieu of
$10,000 bail at the Cois M.
Byrd Detention Center in
Murrieta when he died three
days later, according to jail
records.
Details of the circum-
stances of his death were not
immediately available. How-
ever, Riverside County sher-
iff ’s officials say foul play is
not suspected.
Stamps began his career
performing at parties and
eventually became part of
the rap collective known as
Tha Dogg Pound Gangsta
Crips. Throughout his ca-
reer, he collaborated with
well-known rappers such as
Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur
and Warren G. He also re-
leased several solo albums.
Several rappers
mourned Stamps’ death on
social media Tuesday, in-
cluding Snoop Dogg, who
posted a photo of him on In-
stagram. Ice-T wrote on
Twitter that he was “just
hearing about the loss of an-
other soldier.”
L.A.
rapper
Bad Azz
dies
in jail
By Hannah Fry
Police are investigating
the death of an infant who
was found at a San Fran-
cisco golf course over the
weekend, authorities said.
Officers responded
about 2:19 p.m. Saturday to
the Lincoln Park Golf
Course and found the child’s
body, according to a news re-
lease from the San Fran-
cisco Police Department.
Paramedics were called, but
the infant was pronounced
dead at the scene.
Police said they were con-
cerned about the health of
the baby’s mother.
The Police Department
did not immediately re-
spond to requests for com-
ment and further details
were not available Tuesday.
Anyone with information
is asked to call the Police De-
partment at (414) 575-4444.
Body of
baby is
found on
fairway
By Alejandra
Reyes-Velarde