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American Military News
4 days ago
- American Military News
Father handed gun to son in alleged drive-by gang killing, LAPD says
LOS ANGELES — On a Monday night in February, police say, Roberto Martinez took his 14-year-old son in the Pico-Union neighborhood on a graffiti spree. With a can of yellow spray paint, they marked the facades of a pawn shop, laundromat and furniture store with the names of their gangs, according to a a Los Angeles Police Department detective wrote in a search warrant affidavit. Driving down Normandie Avenue, Martinez and his son came across Kevin Rivera, who was crossing the street, the affidavit says. The muzzle of a handgun poked out from their car's passenger window, a witness told police. Martinez's son squeezed the trigger five times, shooting Rivera to death and wounding two others, the detective wrote in the affidavit. Martinez, 43, and his son are charged with murdering Rivera, whom Martinez believed to belong to a rival gang, the detective wrote in the affidavit. Martinez has pleaded not guilty. A lawyer who represented Martinez at his arraignment directed questions to the Los Angeles County public defender's media representatives, who didn't respond to a request for comment. It wasn't clear who was representing Martinez's son, whose case isn't public because of his age. Some gang members follow in the footsteps of fathers, uncles or brothers, but it's rare to see an older relative direct them to commit violence, a former gang member said. Ramon Mendoza, who once belonged to the Varrio Nuevo Estrada street gang and Mexican Mafia prison gang, said many gangsters don't want to bring their kids into a lifestyle that often leads to death or prison. 'The hardcore gang members, they seek for the most part to insulate the innocents, their family, from what they are,' Mendoza said. But in some rare cases, he said, 'rather than deter and discourage their kids, in some sick way they look at (violence) as a kind of bonding event.' Martinez has been in and out of prison since 2005 for possessing drugs and guns, according to court records. Nicknamed 'Stranger,' he is a member of a Hollywood gang called The Magicians' Club, or TMC, Detective James Ball of the Los Angeles Police Department wrote in the affidavit. The evening of Feb. 10, Martinez and his son were recorded by surveillance cameras tagging a stretch of Venice and Pico boulevards, Ball wrote. Police found scrawled on the side of a business 'TMC' and 'Hellbound.' A small crew based in the Koreatown and Mid-City neighborhoods, Hellbound is a rival of a more established gang called the Playboys, Ball wrote. Surveillance footage showed Martinez's son and his friends tagging a laundromat while the father flashed gang signs at passing cars, the detective wrote. According to the affidavit, the group piled into a black Honda Accord and traveled to Pico Boulevard and Fedora Avenue, the heart of the Playboys' territory. In yellow paint, they wrote 'Hellbound' and 'PBSK' — short for Playboys Killers, Ball wrote. About four blocks away, Rivera, 30, was walking down Normandie Avenue. The Accord drove past him, then made a U-turn, a witness told detectives. A suspect wearing a hooded sweatshirt — believed by police to be Martinez's son — fired out of the rear passenger window. Rivera was fatally shot in the back. A man crossing the street was struck in the hip and a woman sitting in her car was grazed by a bullet, according to the affidavit. Six days later, a prisoner called Martinez, who mentioned a shooting in the recorded call, Ball wrote. 'Four people got dropped and one died,' Martinez said, according to the detective. The victim was from Playboys, Martinez added. Rivera's family couldn't be reached for comment. 'My son did what he had to do, dog,' Martinez said in the recorded call, according to the affidavit. 'Honestly I tried to stop him. I tried to grab the gun.' Detectives allege this wasn't true. Ball wrote that Martinez handed his son the .40-caliber Glock used to kill Rivera. Two days after Martinez was arrested on suspicion of Rivera's murder, LAPD officers in Wilmington detained a man who was driving a Dodge pickup stolen during a home invasion robbery in Perris, Ball wrote. Antonio Alvarez had allegedly tossed a stolen .40-caliber Glock during the pursuit. Ballistics testing showed the gun was used to kill Rivera, the affidavit says. WhatsApp messages on Alvarez's phone showed he bought the Glock for $800 five days after Rivera was shot to death, Ball wrote. The sale was coordinated by someone using a phone that pinged off a cell tower near Centinela State Prison, according to the affidavit. Ball wrote he is still investigating who brokered the sale. ©2025 Los Angeles Times. Visit Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Los Angeles Times
24-05-2025
- Los Angeles Times
Father handed gun to son in alleged drive-by gang killing, LAPD says
On a Monday night in February, police say, Roberto Martinez took his 14-year-old son in the Pico-Union neighborhood on a graffiti spree. With a can of yellow spray paint, they marked the facades of a pawn shop, laundromat and furniture store with the names of their gangs, according to a a Los Angeles Police Department detective wrote in a search warrant affidavit. Driving down Normandie Avenue, Martinez and his son came across Kevin Rivera, who was crossing the street, the affidavit says. The muzzle of a handgun poked out from their car's passenger window, a witness told police. Martinez's son squeezed the trigger five times, shooting Rivera to death and wounding two others, the detective wrote in the affidavit. Martinez, 43, and his son are charged with murdering Rivera, whom Martinez believed to belong to a rival gang, the detective wrote in the affidavit. Martinez has pleaded not guilty. A lawyer who represented Martinez at his arraignment directed questions to the Los Angeles County public defender's media representatives, who didn't respond to a request for comment. It wasn't clear who was representing Martinez's son, whose case isn't public because of his age. Some gang members follow in the footsteps of fathers, uncles or brothers, but it's rare to see an older relative direct them to commit violence, a former gang member said. Ramon Mendoza, who once belonged to the Varrio Nuevo Estrada street gang and Mexican Mafia prison gang, said many gangsters don't want to bring their kids into a lifestyle that often leads to death or prison. 'The hardcore gang members, they seek for the most part to insulate the innocents, their family, from what they are,' Mendoza said. But in some rare cases, he said, 'rather than deter and discourage their kids, in some sick way they look at [violence] as a kind of bonding event.' Martinez has been in and out of prison since 2005 for possessing drugs and guns, according to court records. Nicknamed 'Stranger,' he is a member of a Hollywood gang called The Magicians' Club, or TMC, Det. James Ball of the Los Angeles Police Department wrote in the affidavit. The evening of Feb. 10, Martinez and his son were recorded by surveillance cameras tagging a stretch of Venice and Pico boulevards, Ball wrote. Police found scrawled on the side of a business 'TMC' and 'Hellbound.' A small crew based in the Koreatown and Mid-City neighborhoods, Hellbound is a rival of a more established gang called the Playboys, Ball wrote. Surveillance footage showed Martinez's son and his friends tagging a laundromat while the father flashed gang signs at passing cars, the detective wrote. According to the affidavit, the group piled into a black Honda Accord and traveled to Pico Boulevard and Fedora Avenue, the heart of the Playboys' territory. In yellow paint, they wrote 'Hellbound' and 'PBSK' — short for Playboys Killers, Ball wrote. About four blocks away, Rivera, 30, was walking down Normandie Avenue. The Accord drove past him, then made a U-turn, a witness told detectives. A suspect wearing a hooded sweatshirt — believed by police to be Martinez's son — fired out of the rear passenger window. Rivera was fatally shot in the back. A man crossing the street was struck in the hip and a woman sitting in her car was grazed by a bullet, according to the affidavit. Six days later, a prisoner called Martinez, who mentioned a shooting in the recorded call, Ball wrote. 'Four people got dropped and one died,' Martinez said, according to the detective. The victim was from Playboys, Martinez added. Rivera's family couldn't be reached for comment. 'My son did what he had to do, dog,' Martinez said in the recorded call, according to the affidavit. 'Honestly I tried to stop him. I tried to grab the gun.' Detectives allege this wasn't true. Ball wrote that Martinez handed his son the .40-caliber Glock used to kill Rivera. Two days after Martinez was arrested on suspicion of Rivera's murder, LAPD officers in Wilmington detained a man who was driving a Dodge pickup stolen during a home invasion robbery in Perris, Ball wrote. Antonio Alvarez had allegedly tossed a stolen .40-caliber Glock during the pursuit. Ballistics testing showed the gun was used to kill Rivera, the affidavit says. WhatsApp messages on Alvarez's phone showed he bought the Glock for $800 five days after Rivera was shot to death, Ball wrote. The sale was coordinated by someone using a phone that pinged off a cell tower near Centinela State Prison, according to the affidavit. Ball wrote he is still investigating who brokered the sale.
India.com
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
This 16 episode survival thriller will make you shiver with fear, beats suspsene of Squid Game, has 8.1 IMdb rating, series is..., lead actors are...
OTT series like Squid Game, Hellbound, Black Mirror and more have always been loved by the audience. The intriguing storyline and edge-of-the-seat scenes make these series a hit. For such series, the initial one or two episodes are slow, where one may feel that the story is not doing justice to the thriller category. However, the actual pace is picked up just after the third episode, with nail-biting terror of what happens next. Once you start watching such shows, it is for sure that you will end up binge-watching all the episodes and even seasons. If you like Squid Game, then today, we will tell you about a series on the same lines but with more chilling scenes and an unbelievably intriguing storyline. The series we are talking about is filled with suspense. The story of the series is about a bunch of different people who get stuck in different worlds. From there, they are asked to play the game of death, during which they have to look for an escape. This survival thriller series is not Korean but has double the suspense, fear, horror and everything in between. If you are wondering which series we are discussing, then it is the Japanese survival thriller Alice in Borderland. Alice in Borderland was directed by Shinsuke Sato and it is an adaptation of the same-name manga series. The Japanese one released on Netflix features Kenji Sakuraguchi, Keita Machida and Nijiro Murakami in lead roles. Plot of Alice in Borderland The story of this series revolves around a boy who spends most of his time playing computer games. He and his friends suddenly get trapped in a strange and mysterious world. To escape from there, they have to play many dangerous and deadly games. To win every game, they have to use their cleverness, courage and strength. This series keeps the audience engaged from beginning till the very end. Alice in Borderland Seasons and Episodes The series has a total of two seasons. While Alice in Borderland Season 1 has 8 episodes, the second also has the same – 8 episodes. With the second season of the series ending on an open note, fans were eagerly waiting for Alice in Borderland Season 3. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Netflix India (@netflix_in) Alice in Borderland Season 3 To finally put an end to fans' wait, reports claim that Alice in Borderland Season 3 will release on Netflix in September 2025. Meanwhile, Netflix is yet to officially announce its release date. Both the seasons of Alice in Borderland were loved by the audience, and it has got an 8.1 IMDb rating.
South China Morning Post
26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Revelations director Yeon Sang-ho on his new Netflix movie and how desire shapes beliefs
By Baek Byung-yeul Advertisement Renowned for exploring complex social issues in productions such as Train to Busan and Hellbound, director Yeon Sang-ho returns with the Netflix movie Revelations. The movie delves into the dangerous consequences of selective belief in contemporary society. 'Nowadays, people only want to see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe. That's why things like this are happening in Korea right now,' Yeon said in an interview this week. 'Coincidentally, the timing of Revelations coming out makes me feel that this work was born from this era.' Revelations tells the story of pastor Sung Min-chan (Ryu Jun-yeol), who believes he is acting on divine revelation to punish an ex-convict in a missing-person case, and detective Lee Yeon-hui (Shin Hyun-been), who is haunted by her deceased sibling's visions as she investigates the same case.
Korea Herald
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Interview: Yeon Sang-ho reckons with divine delusions in 'Revelations'
'Train to Busan' filmmaker blends genre potboiler with meditation on faith, streamed straight into age of curated reality "I'm a total product of the '90s—back when I was binging films like crazy and had this whole dream of becoming a director one day," Yeon Sang-ho tells a group of reporters Monday at a hotel in Yeouido, Seoul. "I'm still big on that whole auteur thing, the director's intent and all that." The filmmaker, 46, speaks with the calm certainty of someone who knows exactly what every frame means. He dissects scenes with surgical precision, diving into technical choices with the kind of seriousness that makes it clear nothing was left to chance. His latest film, "Revelations," which dropped on Netflix Friday, wears its symbolism loudly and proudly — from angel-shaped clouds to a lightning-scorched rock that reveals the face of Jesus. And yet, the director hopes it doesn't hit viewers too fast. 'I wanted all those details to be hiding in plain sight — obvious, but only if you're really looking.' "Revelations" follows Pastor Sung Min-chan (Ryu Jun-yeol), who believes he's been divinely chosen to punish the culprit behind a churchgoer's disappearance. Alongside him is Yeon-hui (Shin Hyun-been), a detective investigating the same case while grappling with visions of her dead sister. Kwon Yang-rae, played by Shin Min-jae, is an ex-con whose possible guilt is the film's central pivot. The film attempts to juggle, at times rather heavy-handedly, the social critique seen in Yeon's earlier works like "The Fake" and "Hellbound," with the slow-burn suspense of a mystery thriller. Ryu brings feverish conviction to Sung, who delivers sermons beneath a glowing red neon crucifix in a crumbling suburban church. When a young girl vanishes and his pursuit of a suspect spirals into violence, Sung starts to interpret every wild twist as divine will — reshaping any number of sins to satisfy his deranged sense of justice and truth. "We're stuck in this era where people only tune into what they want to see and buy into whatever they feel like believing," Yeon explains. "This whole thing is only picking up steam in our society. It's baked into human nature, sure, but now it's getting more extreme. "Back in the day, you'd turn on the TV and just roll with whatever was playing, even if you were not really into it. But now, with everything getting more high-tech, this human instinct to cherry-pick only what we want to see is just getting stronger and stronger." There's a certain irony in hearing this critique from the poster child of Netflix, a platform that practically turbocharges that very bias with its never-ending buffet of like-minded content. But far removed from such algorithm-driven ecosystems, Yeon began his career with independent animated features like "The King of Pigs" (2011) and "The Fake" (2013), before shifting to live-action with the zombie breakout "Train to Busan" (2016). Only in recent years has he built a close creative partnership with the streaming juggernaut, helming series like "Hellbound" and "Parasyte: The Grey." "The distribution model (of Netflix) is entirely different," he says. "This subscription approach operates on completely different principles than the theater system. And the fact that content releases worldwide simultaneously opens up possibilities that weren't available before." When asked about "Revelations," Yeon suggests it swims against the current of typical Netflix fare — at times deliberately slower, more ambiguous, and less eager to hand the audience easy answers. "Looking at what's happening internally in this film, it's not entertainment in the way audiences typically expect. "Paradoxically, I think that's why a service like Netflix can be useful — it can connect with viewers who might never encounter this type of work otherwise." The film serves up visual flourishes that occasionally fall flat. Yeon-hui's ghostly encounters with her sister are portrayed through shaky, disorienting camerawork that leans into B-grade horror territory — stylistically out-of-place in a film that otherwise strives for a gritty, grounded tone. When asked about the choice, Yeon offers a defense. "Ghost scenes are particularly challenging to nail down," he says. "Since Pastor Sung Min-chan gets hit with these in-your-face visual hallucinations, I figured Yeon-hui's guilt should also jump off the screen somehow. When you have an actor fleshing that out, I thought viewers could really get inside Yeon-hui's head and feel what she's going through." Critics have often pegged Yeon's works as taking shots at organized religion, but the director pushes back against that label. "Religion makes an excellent subject matter because, at its core, it's all about faith. From a cultural angle, it serves up exactly the kind of rich material I'm after. But if you're asking if this film is some kind of hit piece on Protestantism, I'd say not at all." He points to a scene near the film's denouement where Yeon-hui rescues a kidnapped girl, cradling her in a composition that immediately invokes sacred art. 'That whole setup is a straight-up nod to Michelangelo's 'Pieta'— I was actually worried it might come off as too religious,' he says. 'If you really follow Yeon-hui's arc, those are the honest-to-God revelations and redemption moments. Her storyline is full of these divine signals, even if they're easy to miss. In that sense, it's actually a pretty Christian film.' With "Revelations," Yeon hopes to provide a distillation of his artistic vision — a sort of Reader's Digest to his filmography. "I've imagined someone that wants to explore my work but has no clue where to begin. Something like 'Hellbound' might come off as too heavy a lift for some viewers, so I wanted to put together something more compact — like a self-contained short story that captures the vibe of my earlier works."
