LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors say a Los Angeles mother has been charged with drowning her year-old daughter and trying to drown her 5-year-old daughter.

Deputy District Attorney Teresa Sullivan says 32-year-old Lorna Valle (VY’-ay) was charged with murder and attempted murder Friday and will be arraigned at a later date due to unspecified medical issues.

The girls’ father told police he found his wife trying to drown the girls in a tub when he returned home from a store Wednesday morning.

Firefighters answering a 911 call found the girls unconscious and not breathing and administered CPR.

The 1-year-old, Lindsay, died.

The 5-year-old, Marian, remains in critical condition in a coma at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Valle is being held on $1.5 million bail.

If convicted, she faces 50 years to life in prison.

The incident was sparked by an unspecified dispute between Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building near the city’s oceanfront, according to law enforcement authorities.

The agency said in a statement Thursday night that one of its agents died at the scene and the other was in stable condition after the shooting. But the statement did not provide details about the incident.

Multiple law enforcement authorities told The Times the shooting involved a dispute between an agent and his supervisor.

The agent opened fire repeatedly on the male supervisor shortly before 6 p.m. in the building, according to the sources, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak on the matter.

With the supervisor wounded, a third agent intervened and opened fire on the gunman, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to law enforcement authorities. The male agent who killed the gunman was uninjured.

The supervisor was taken by a Long Beach Fire Department ambulance to nearby St. Mary Medical Center, where he was being treated late Thursday.

The scene outside the multistory building at Ocean Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue was marked by confusion as police and federal agents descended on the site. Initial reports from the command post, which were sent to law enforcement agencies, stated that two agents had been killed.

But the agency, known as ICE, issued a brief statement about 8 p.m. saying that one agent had died. The agency did not release the names of the agents involved because family members had not been notified.

The shooting sparked a major response by the Long Beach Police Department, the FBI and the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility.

As investigators gathered evidence Thursday night and interviewed witnesses, Luis Martinez watched from a parking lot booth across from the federal building where he works as a cashier.

Drawn by the sound of screeching tires, Martinez said, he walked to the building and saw at least four SUVs stopping outside the main entrance. Then Martinez said he saw several police officers storm in.

“Some people were running out and there were two ambulances in the middle” of the street, said Martinez, 25.

Formed in 2003, ICE is the main investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security and has agents across the United States and in dozens of foreign countries. The agents are involved in immigration enforcement, customs inspections, and efforts that target gang members and traffickers who move people and illegal goods into the United States.

Two people, including a suspected gunman, were found dead inside a burned East Hollywood home, police officials said.

Domestic violence is believed to have triggered an East Hollywood shooting that left two dead, including the gunman, and three others wounded, police said.

Lt. Andy Nieman of the Los Angeles Police Department said the shooter had a former relationship with a woman who lived at the home. She is among the three survivors, he said.

A SWAT team entered the home Thursday afternoon after firefighters knocked down the blaze in the 500 block of North Harvard Boulevard at 3:15 pm.

Police did not identify the alleged gunman or the victim, who could not be identified because the body was badly burned.

Three shooting victims — two approximately 38-year-old women and a man man about 34 years old — were retrieved from the front entry area of the house. All had suffered gunshot wounds to the upper torso and were taken to a local hospital in serious condition, but police said the victims were conscious and able to communicate with officers.

Authorities have not said what prompted the shooting.

A woman who lives across the street from the home told The Times she saw a man who may have been the shooter go to the door shortly before the gunfire.

Maria Arguello, 60, said she saw a young man with a ponytail, dressed in black, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and carrying a duffel bag. He banged on the door of the house and then went inside, she said. She heard gunshots shortly after.

The fire and shooting prompted the evacuation of Harvard Elementary School as well several nearby homes.

A state lawmaker thinks he has the answer to the problem of overcrowding at Los Angeles County jails: export inmates out of state.

Sen. Tony Strickland (R-Moorpark) has introduced legislation that would allow counties to negotiate with other states for the transfer of inmates to places where jails have space. He noted the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has contracted to transfer 9,300 inmates to prisons outside California.

Strickland said he wrote SB 983 in response to the death of Desiree Grajeda. The pregnant 17-year-old and her boyfriend were killed last summer in Pomona when their car was struck by a speeding vehicle driven by a woman who had been released the day before from Los Angeles County Jail.

The driver of the speeding car, who now faces murder charges, had been sentenced to 90 days in jail on July 29 on drug and weapon charges, but she was released on probation on July 31.

“If Los Angeles County had the opportunity to contract for the transfer of inmates to another state, this woman’s life -– and the life of her unborn child -– could have been spared,” Strickland said.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. Wayne Bilowit said his agency is open to the possibility of being able to ship inmates to out-of-state jails as an “escape valve” when crowding reaches critical points, but said the department is “not that thrilled” by the Strickland bill because it would not give a county’s sheriff a sufficient role in the decision, putting contract negotiations in the hands of boards of supervisors.

“It’s important that the sheriff still be involved in it,” Bilowit said.

A brawl between several people dressed as action figures erupted in front of the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Thursday evening, resulting in a Jack Sparrow character being pepper-sprayed by an attacker, police said.

Jack Sparrow was treated for minor injuries in the fracas that included Catwoman, an alien and a second pirate, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Officers were searching streets in Hollywood after Catwoman, the alien and pirate fled following the free-for-all that played out in front of tourists on busy Hollywood Boulevard, Officer Norma Eisenman said.

The incident was the latest run-in between characters who pose for pictures with tourists and then aggressively demand money, according to police.

In September, a man dressed as SpongeBob SquarePants was detained by police outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood after an altercation with two women. In another incident, Spider-Man was led away in handcuffs.

Police officials acknowledge that maintaining peace in the area has been challenging. At one point, LAPD officials held a summit with characters to improve relations in the popular destination and even resorted to a temporary ban after problems persisted.

City rules allow people to tip characters, but prohibit them from demanding payment.

A grand jury indictment unsealed Wednesday accuses a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy of smuggling drugs hidden in a burrito into a courthouse lockup.

Henry Marin, 27, pleaded not guilty to one count each of bringing drugs into a jail and conspiracy to commit a crime.

Marin, who has been relieved of duty without pay, was assigned to the Court Services Division at the Airport Branch Courthouse in Los Angeles.

Marin is accused of conspiring with at least one other person to transport narcotics into the jail, according to the indictment returned Tuesday.

A burrito was also used to smuggle drugs to an inmate in Valencia County jail in New Mexico. Whether the two cases are related is yet to be seen.

A “significant DNA link” has led prosecutors to drop charges against a Yorba Linda man suspected of fatally stabbing his mother and older brother and instead connect suspected serial killer Itzcoatl Ocampo to the Oct. 25 crimes.

Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas said that Eder Herrera, 24, was expected to be released from Orange County Jail on Friday night and that two additional charges would be filed against Ocampo in the murders of Raquel Estrada, 53, and Juan Herrera, 34.

Ocampo, 23, has already been charged in the deaths of four homeless men, one of whom was stabbed more than 60 times. The slayings occurred between Dec. 20 and Jan. 13 in northern Orange County.

In the Herrera case, DNA found on items taken from Ocampo’s Yorba Linda home matched a profile from the October slayings of Estrada and Juan Herrera.

“This case has now expanded from murdering random vulnerable strangers to murdering people he knew,” Rackauckas said at a news conference Friday.

The younger Herrera, who had been a classmate of Ocampo’s at Esperanza High School in Anaheim, was accused of stabbing his mother more than 30 times and leaving her body in the kitchen. His brother was stabbed more than 60 times and the body left in a hallway until police responded to a tip at 11:30 p.m. The person believed they heard strange noises coming from the home.

Rackauckas said there was “significant evidence” that led to the filing of charges against Herrera, including a witness who saw a person he believed was Herrera dragging something from the front door of the house back inside.

“Based on blood evidence at the scene, it appeared that victim Juan Herrera had attempted to escape out the front door before being dragged back inside,” Rackauckas said.

Eder “Herrera spent the evening driving around randomly with a friend,” he said. “His behavior was suspicious.”

Rackauckas said the investigation is ongoing.

There were no initial reports of injury, though details were still developing.

Early reports indicated that a group of protesters had gathered outside the consulate when one of the protesters got into a verbal dispute with a security guard, who allegedly had taken a sign from the man and tossed in the trash.

The protester got into a vehicle and fired several shots in the direction of the security guard, all of which missed, police said.

At least one round reportedly hit the consulate and there were no apparent reports of injuries at the consulate around 2:15 p.m. in the 400 block of Shatto Place, according to law enforcement sources who asked not to be identified because the investigation is unfolding.

It was not clear who the intended target might be, how many shots were fired or whether anyone in the vicinity was hit by gunfire.

Several  Southern California high schools are scrambling to keep their bands marching.

But a string of recent break-ins has left several South Los Angeles high school bands without tubas. In recent weeks, band rooms have been ransacked across Los Angeles in pursuit of the prized brass instruments.

“It’s demoralizing,” South Gate High School band director Ruben Gonzales Jr. told ABC News. “We’ve been working to build our program by getting instruments donated, so to see them gone is a real kick in the gut.”

South Gate High School is one of many schools targeted in recent weeks. Gonzalez said the thieves had their eyes on only one instrument.

“It’s exclusive to the tubas every time; they are the most valued instrument for any band.” Gonzalez said.

South Gate has been the target of two break-ins since September. The school has lost five of  its eight tubas, at a value of up to $30,000.

“We currently have more players than we do instruments,” he said.

The band resorted to old concert tubas that had been in storage so they could  at least play their last performance of the year.

“They are too heavy to be marched, but we have to make do with what we have,” Gonzalez explained.

For the time, Gonzalez said the tuba players would rotate the remaining three instruments.  The band director has strategized to find ways to replace the instruments, including renting, but the school is struggling to find the money.

“Our budget is stretched thin as is, so we don’t know where to come up with the money to replace it.” He said.

South Gate hasn’t been the only target. Two miles away at Huntington Park High School, thieves stole the school’s last tuba. According to the Los Angeles  Times,  13 tubas from nearby Fremont High School had also been stolen, as well as eight from Centennial High School.
“Some people are lucky if they get a $500 budget for the year,” said Ligia Chaves-Rasas, band instructor at Bell High School, where no instruments have been stolen.

The band directors said they  suspected the stolen tubas were being sold on the black market.

“We could look for hem, but they could be anywhere, including Mexico,” Gonzalez explained.

They believe the stolen tubas could be melted down for the high priced brass, but it’s more likely that the high priced instruments are being sold  — there’s been a recent resurgence of tuba-based banda music in  Hispanic communities. Marching bands-style dance music that has a strong tuba presence is popular in Mexico.

“[Tuba players] are paid a lot to play,” Gonzalez said. “Buying a tuba is almost like buying a used car; people want it  but can’t afford it.”

He says a banda performer can stand to make more than $100 an hour. A tuba on the black market can sell for between $2,000 to more than $5,000 depending on its condition.

No one has been arrested yet  in the burglaries. Gonzalez said he feared  the school had not  seen the last of the thefts.

“It’s been two weeks, and the locks are not secured,” he said, “I hope the school district will reconsider to safeguard instruments, because this is our home.”

UPDATED: After being listed in critical condition on Saturday following a horrifying random shooting in Hollywood, music executive John Atterberry died Monday just before 5PM. The AP reports that Atterberry was the attack’s only seriously injured victim; he was shot in the face and upper body when 26-year-old gunman Tyler Brehm began opening fire on passing automobiles.

A gunman randomly opened fire at the intersection of Sunset and Vine in Los Angeles on Friday morning. The suspect was shot and killed by police, according to a report by the AP. After running out of bullets, he allegedly pulled out a knife shouting, “Kill me” and “I want to be killed.”

The incident occurred at approximately 10:19 am on Dec. 9 near the ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood. The area was subsequently closed down as police arrived at the scene.

A spokesperson in the Hollywood office of the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter that there was an officer involved in the shooting, but couldn’t confirm the suspect was dead. The spokesperson characterized the incident as a “random shooting.” According to LA Weekly, LAPD officer Gregory Baek said that the suspect was found dead at the scene.

According to an LA Times source, bystanders enlisted the help of two nearby police officers after witnessing a man open fire in the street. The officers were reportedly working on a nearby movie set. A separate witness told KABC-TV that he heard between nine and 12 shots. The man allegedly walked northbound on Vine Street with a gun pointing up in the air, when traffic began coming by, he lowered the gun and aimed it at the cars passing by.