Infant struck and killed by mother’s car...

Infant struck and killed by mother’s car in driveway

A 1-year-old boy died early Wednesday after his mother

accidentally backed her car into him as she left to take three of her

five children to school.

Ty Matsushima had reportedly wandered into the driveway through

the garage as his nanny helped JoAnn Matsushima load some forgotten

items into the car in the 16000 block of Wanderer Lane. Neither JoAnn

Matsushima nor the nanny saw Ty run out at about 8:15 a.m.

Ty died while he was being taken to Huntington Beach Hospital,

police said.

Huntington Beach couple found dead in hotel room

Orange County sheriff’s deputies discovered two decomposed dead

bodies in a motel room early Monday just outside Huntington Beach

city limits after the manager reported a foul smell.

Deputies found the bodies of 35-year-old Katherine Kulma and a man

whose name couldn’t be released until his next of kin were notified,

said Jim Amormino, public affairs officer for the Orange County

Sheriff’s Department.

The manager tried to enter the room but couldn’t because the male

victim’s body was propped up against the door, Amormino said. Kulma’s

body was found in the kitchen.

Sheriffs are investigating whether it was a murder-suicide or a

double homicide, Amormino said. The victims appeared to have been

dead for at least a couple of days. The bodies were too decomposed to

see obvious clues to the couple’s cause of death.

The couple had apparently been living in the room at the Beach

West Inn, in the 15000 block of Beach Boulevard. Deputies don’t know

of any previous addresses.

Surf City man killed while trying to stop car theft

A Huntington Beach resident died Sunday after he reportedly tried

to stop a man from stealing his car in an alley in Long Beach at

about 12:15 a.m.

Police arrested a suspect, 26-year-old Jesus Soto, at 10 a.m.

Joel Hyde, 22, returned to his car after picking up something from

a friend’s home and found someone else inside beginning to pull away,

Long Beach police said. Hyde went toward the car, and the driver ran

into him and then into a parked car while Hyde was on the hood,

Officer Greg Schirmer said.

Hyde’s friend, 25-year-old Amanda Wieland of Long Beach, was also

hit by the car but suffered no major injuries. Hyde was pronounced

dead at St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach early Sunday.

The driver reportedly fled on foot after driving Hyde’s 1999

Nissan Maxima into the parked car. A description of the man quickly

led investigators to Soto, who was charged with murder and attempted

murder by the Long Beach district attorney’s office on Monday,

Schirmer said.

Huntington man arrested after two die in auto accident

California Highway Patrol officers arrested a Huntington Beach

resident on suspicion of felony vehicular manslaughter while

intoxicated after he reportedly caused a three-car accident on the

San Diego Freeway in Irvine at 6:50 p.m. Friday.

Stephen Anthony Irving, 30 was arrested after a 1998 Chevrolet

Camaro rear-ended a Honda Civic, which then hit a GMC Suburban,

causing it to flip several times before hitting a tree, police said.

One of the vehicle’s seven occupants, 31-year-old Linda Rojas of

San Clemente, died at the scene, and a 10-year-old passenger died

from injuries sustained in the accident on Monday at UCI Medical

Center in Orange. The driver of the suburban, 34-year-old Felipe

Rojas, was also taken to UCI Medical Center after suffering major

injuries.

The Camaro hit another car while fleeing the accident scene.

Police found Irving at a business off MacArthur Boulevard. They

arrested him without a struggle and “determined that Irving was

extremely intoxicated,” California Highway Patrol officer Ken Yoon

said.

Linda Rojas was ejected from the vehicle after it hit the tree.

She wasn’t wearing her seat belt, Yoon said, and neither was the

10-year-old victim nor four other occupants. Three children, an

11-year-old and two 13-year-olds, were taken to different hospitals

with major injuries. A 20-year-old passenger wearing her seat belt

wasn’t injured.

Irving, who suffered no injuries, was taken to Orange County jail.

Police will start giving delinquent parkers the boot

The Huntington Beach Police Department will use the vehicle

immobilizer, known more commonly as the boot, on vehicles with five

or more unpaid parking tickets starting Saturday.

The boot will be used as an alternative to the department’s

current policy of immediately impounding such vehicles. The device

attaches to the wheel and tire, making the vehicle immovable.

Owners who discover a boot on their cars will need to call police,

pay the parking citations and arrange for the boot’s removal.

To arrange to have a boot removed, call (714) 536-5663 from 7 a.m.

to 5 p.m. on weekdays.