🚨NO WHITE SUPREMACISTS INVOLVED🚨
NBCLA published May 29, 2024: Accused attacker in Venice Canals charged with murder. The suspect accused of beating two women in the Venice Canals is now facing a murder charge after one of the victims died. NBC Los Angeles' Alex Rozier reports.
FOX 11 Los Angeles published May 26, 2024: Victim of Venice attack taken off life support. It was an emotional first meeting between two women - their families now connected through an unspeakable crime.
KTLA published May 24, 2024: Victim in 'heinous' Venice Canal sexual assault taken off life support. One of the victims of a brutal sexual assault along the Venice canals was taken off life support Friday night after being in a coma for nearly two months.
Sarah Alden, 53, was declared brain dead earlier this week. She had planned to move across the country from Massachusetts to Venice Beach in California, a dream she had worked hard to achieve.
Ready to start her new life, she had just signed a lease for an apartment in Venice and was walking along the famed canals on April 6 when she was brutally raped and assaulted.
KCAL9 News Apr 15, 2024: Victim in harrowing Venice Canals attacks speaks out. Los Angeles County prosecutors charged the main suspect in the horrid Venice attacks with several crimes, including rape, torture and attempted murder. Lesley Marin reports.
KTLA5 News published April 15, 2024: Charges filed in Venice canal attacks
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced charges Monday against a man that he says committed two of the “most heinous sexual assaults” he’s ever seen.
LA Interim Police Chief said he had some minor criminal violations outside of California in 2 states. He said, "there were no indicators that would lead them to believe this was somebody they needed to watch." How much do you want to bet that this homeless man from Las Vegas has been doing this his entire life and has never been caught. That's why he has no record of brutal sexual assaulting women. Because the police where he has committed these types of crimes don't make rape a priority and don't follow up on leads. So he's learned that he can get away with it and just walk away to look for other victims. (emphasis mine)
KTLA5 News
written by Vivian Chow
Friday May 24, 2024
One of the victims of a brutal sexual assault along the Venice canals was taken off life support Friday night after being in a coma for nearly two months.
Sarah Alden, 53, was declared brain dead earlier this week. She had planned to move across the country from Massachusetts to Venice Beach in California, a dream she had worked hard to achieve.
Ready to start her new life, she had just signed a lease for an apartment in Venice and was walking along the famed canals on April 6 when she was brutally raped and assaulted.
A second victim, Mary Klein, 54, was also attacked that night. She was left severely injured and believed the attacker aimed to kill her.
Police confirmed that both attacks had a “sexual element” to them. The suspect, Anthony Francisco Jones, 29, was arrested days later on April 11 for the assaults.
Jones was captured on security cameras walking near the canals that night holding a liquor bottle that investigators said was used in the attacks. He is also believed to be a homeless man.
Although Klein survived her attack, Alden remained in a coma. On Friday night, friends and family surrounded Alden at the hospital as she was taken off life support.
“It’s very sudden and shocking,” said Cynthia King, Alden’s friend. “She was extremely intelligent, well-educated and witty. She was stolen from us.”
Earlier in May, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced charges in the case.
“The level of brutality that was engaged in was very reprehensible,” said L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón.
Loved ones remain devastated, remembering Alden as a loving mother of two sons.
“I feel like I’m in an alternate reality,” King said. “This isn’t even real.”
Alden’s family said the woman’s organs will be donated to help save others’ lives. The attacks have left Venice residents stunned and worried for their safety.
Resident Aimee Nelson said there’s been a notable increase in violent crime and neighbors are watching out for each other. One neighbor even provided her with pepper spray and a stun gun.
“Our neighbors have been asking each other to walk them home, people are avoiding going out at night because they feel unsafe,” said Ramon Goni, a Venice local. “We had an active shooter right behind us a few weeks ago.”
Some residents told KTLA they believed the canals to be a relatively safe area but are no longer certain.
“It was a little pocket that was different from the rest of Venice, away from all the homeless and where the attacks were,” said a resident named Tim. “But now, I think [the crime] has penetrated in.”
The suspect, Jones, was arrested and charged with forcible rape, torture, attempted murder, mayhem, sexual penetration by use of force and sodomy by use of force.
“Our hearts and deepest sympathies go out to the victim’s family and friends during this unimaginably difficult time,” said the DA’s office. “Our office is evaluating how we will proceed to ensure the defendant is held fully accountable for his conduct.”
A GoFundMe to help Alden’s family with medical and funeral expenses can be found here.
KTLA5 News published May 16, 2024: Woman attacked along the beach in Santa Monica. The alleged attack occurred shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday in the 2000 block of Ocean Front Walk, just south of the Santa Monica Pier. KTLA's Carlos Saucedo reports.
KTLA5 News
written by Marc Sternfield
Thursday May 16, 2024
I bet you this homeless man is not from Los Angeles either. But they're not offering any further information about this man. Where is his criminal record from? (emphasis mine)
A homeless man with a criminal record is accused of attacking a woman along the beach in Santa Monica and attempting to drag her into a public restroom.
The alleged attack occurred shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday in the 2000 block of Ocean Front Walk, just south of the Santa Monica Pier.
“The victim, a Venice resident, was jogging southbound on the beach path when the suspect grabbed her ponytail from behind, knocking her to the ground,” police said in a statement. “He then pulled her several feet toward the restrooms.”
Police believe the suspect, Malcolm Ward, 48, intended to sexually assault the woman inside the Bicknell restrooms.
Several witnesses intervened and called 911, police said. Officers responded “within minutes” and found both the victim and Ward near the restrooms and took him into custody.
The victim suffered minor injuries, police said.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged Ward with felony counts of kidnapping, assault with intent to commit rape and a parole violation. He was being held without bail.
Police said Ward had been ON PAROLE for an assault with a deadly weapon conviction.
But somehow the District Attorney of whereever this Assault with Deadly Weapon charge was made didn't think this homeless man was a danger to society so the DA released him to do it again? (emphasis mine)
In April, a transient was arrested in San Diego for the brutal beatings and sexual assaults of two women along the famed Venice Canals – roughly two miles from the site of Monday’s attack.
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