Ali Syed

A 20-year-old woman who was the first victim in an early-morning shooting rampage in Orange County in February had been hired as a stripper by the gunman, according to law enforcement sources. Courtney Aoki, 20, was discovered shot to death in Ali Syed&...

Investigators have abandoned the theory that the 20-year-old “loner” who went on a fatal shooting rampage as he drove through the heart of Orange County last month had somehow lured his final victim to a construction parking lot where he......

Investigators have discovered a suicide note on the desktop computer of the man connected to last week’s shooting rampage in Orange County, indicating his actions were planned. Ali Syed, a 20-year-old college student, is suspected of killing a woman...

Nick Contopoulos was running late for work when he rushed out the door Feb. 19 in hopes of making it to the 6 a.m. astronomy course he teaches at Orange Coast College. Behind the wheel of his car, he thought he heard gunfire. "For some reason I said,...

Authorities are investigating a possible connection between the gunman in a shooting rampage in Orange County last week and one of the three people he killed. Ali Syed, a 20-year-old college student, killed a woman in his parents’ Ladera Ranch......

Since her days as a high school free spirit, Courtney Aoki developed a tougher exterior, with a heavy-metal edge. Tattoos began covering her body, including one of a black widow on her chest with the number 13. Her Facebook page......

Authorities said they were reviewing computers and gaming records of a 20-year-old college student believed to have killed three people in a shooting rampage before taking his own life. The man, Ali Syed of Ladera Ranch, was described by authorities......

On the day his life ended, Melvin Edwards' employees wondered why they hadn't seen him. The owner of Rubicon Gear, a Santa Ana aerospace and defense industry manufacturer founded by his father, Edwards had never missed a day, had never......

Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer says he wants to know why a county known to be among the safest metropolitan areas in the nation has seen seven murders in "17 days of bloodshed.”...

Courtney Aoki envisioned herself as an actress when she participated in a summer stock program at then-called Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa. It was a program designed to help propel at-risk teens into a world of acting and to help...

Multiple 911 calls released by authorities Wednesday detailed bystanders' shocked and saddened reactions to the shootings around the 55 Freeway a day earlier. One man followed the suspect and directed dispatchers to his whereabouts. The calls provided...

When shooting victims Courtney Aoki was a freshman at Renaissance High School for the Arts in Long Beach, she had an appreciation for literature that was rare for a teenager, said J.C. Marquez, her English teacher....