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Ryan Ramos, who went missing after his father allegedly shot his mother and abducted him has turned up safe at a church in Mexico. Lonnie Ramos, his father, was killed in a car accident.

Ryan Ramos was found alone Sunday in a Mormon church in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and was expected home in Orange County on Monday, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said. He had been missing since Wednesday, when his father, Lonnie Ramos, allegedly shot his estranged wife in the face during a custody exchange and took off with their child, authorities said.

On Monday, authorities announced that Lonnie Ramos, 46, had been killed in a car accident in Juarez, Amormino said. He did not have any other details.

The boy was in El Paso, Texas, across the border from Juarez, awaiting a private flight to Southern California, Amormino said.

A man who between the ages of 9 and 18 acted in such movies and shows like “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” and “Trapper John, MD” is now wanted in the 2004 murder of his girlfriend and the abduction of their 3 year old son.

[Mark] Everett — whose real name is Manuel Benitez — moved to Miami and, according to the FBI, sold drugs to supplement the money he made doing odd jobs.

He would come to play a real-life role far bigger and more notorious than any of his on-screen personas: a fugitive wanted for killing his girlfriend and abducting their son.

In 1996, Benitez, 26, met Stephanie Spears, and he won her over with his sociable, grandiose way. But the man Stephanie and her family knew was Mark Everett. They didn’t know Benitez, or his drug-dealing past.

A California man allegedly shot his wife in the face and took off with their son. The woman is expected to survive.

An Amber Alert was in effect throughout California for Lonnie Ramos, 46. He was believed to be driving a rented 39-foot purple-and-gold Fleetwood Providence motor home with the license plate number 5EGW556, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.

Ramos was possibly in the San Diego area and Border Patrol agents were notified in case he tried to head for Mexico, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.

Amormino said Ramos was considered “armed and extremely dangerous.”

A 7-year-old playing in a Sacramento park became a victim of a random shooting and now has a bullet lodged in her skull.

Yamilet Leon was with her uncle and brother near Robertson Park on Monday, when gunshots were fired, police said.

Seconds after hearing the gunfire, Leon said that her ear hurt, and that the pain felt like a needle.

The girl’s mother, Maria Calderon, noticed the bullet when she came home.

It’s unknown how the bullet came in contact with Leon, but police said with Fourth of July just around the corner, people may be randomly firing bullets into the air.

“Randomly firing bullets into the air”?! Stick with the smoke bombs and maybe a sparkler or two, people!

A Vista, California woman who has been charged on two counts of using a caustic chemical to poison her 23-month-old son has pleaded not guilty.

Christina Noel Howell, 21, faces more than 11 years in state prison if convicted, Deputy District Attorney Keith Watanabe said.

Watanabe told Vista Superior Court Judge Marshall Hockett that the boy, identified as Christian D., was first hospitalized May 25 for a report of accidental ingestion of Tilex Mold & Mildew Remover.

The child suffered caustic chemical burns to his throat and stomach and first-degree burns to his face, Watanabe said.

The boy was released from the hospital the next day, but was hospitalized again May 28 for severe vomiting, altered consciousness and seizures.

A Palm Desert, California man has been accused of stabbing his wife and the woman’s two sons, ages 6 and 14.

Jose Ramirez, 46, who was being treated for apparently self-inflicted wounds, was expected to be charged with attempted murder, said Palm Desert police Sgt. Jim Armstrong.

The attack at the Hovley Garden Apartments off Avenue 42 was reported at 2:49 a.m. Someone who called 911 reported seeing a man repeatedly stabbing a female, Armstrong said.

Arriving deputies found a woman and two boys with multiple stab wounds. They learned the suspect was the woman’s husband, and forced their way into the apartment.

Oh, silly teenagers, if the movie War Games taught us nothing else, it’s that nothing good comes out of hacking.

County prosecutors allege Omar Khan, 18, of Coto de Caza, and Tanvir Singh, 18, of Ladera Ranch, broke into Tesoro High School in Las Flores to steal tests and change their own and others’ grades on the school computer network.

While Singh allegedly only tried doing it once, Khan apparently did it several times.

Khan’s been charged with 69 felony counts and could get more than 38 years in prison. Singh faces four counts and could wind up with three years.

The man who was shot by police when he refused to stop brutally beating a toddler has been identified as Sergio Casian Aguilar. The child is believed to be his son.

Sergio Casian Aguilar, 27, parked his truck on an unlit road Saturday night, removed a 2-year-old boy from his car seat and proceeded to stomp, kick and punch the boy to death, authorities said. The boy was unrecognizable when he was pronounced dead at Emanuel Medical Center, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department said.

Authorities have not released the boy’s name but say they believe he was Aguilar’s son. The Stanislaus County coroner and the California Department of Justice are testing DNA to confirm the relationship.

Several motorists called 911 and tried to stop the beating, authorities said.

A California man was shot and killed by police when he refused to stop brutally stomping and beating a toddler in the middle of the road.

“It’s been a long night of wondering, ‘Why?’ — not only for the officers and the passers-by who stopped and tried to help out, but for anyone. Why would somebody do this?” Singh said.

Singh said the coroner does not plan to confirm the identities of the suspect and victim until Monday. Because his injuries were so severe, the child will have to be identified through a blood or DNA test, he said.

The suspect had a child’s car seat in the back of his four-door pickup truck. The truck caught the attention of an elderly couple at 10:13 p.m. Saturday because it was stopped in the two-lane road facing the wrong direction, Singh said.

As they got closer, the couple saw the man brutally beating the toddler behind his truck and throwing the child on the ground, according to Singh. Two or three other cars stopped, an unusual number to be passing through the remote area surrounded by a dairy, a cow pasture, a cornfield and a farmhouse, he said.

An Amber Alert has been issued for two young Los Angeles boys, who police say were kidnapped by their father after he shot his estranged wife.

Jose Luis Ortega, 26, shot the boys’ mother as many as 12 times, but police said she was able to speak while being taken to the hospital.

“He told his wife that he was going to kill her family and that he was going to flee to Mexico,” Smith said.

An Amber Alert has been issued for the two boys, 5-year-old Diego Fabian Ortega and 3-year-old Luis Gonzalo Ortega.

Their mother’s name has not been released. She was in very serious condition early Monday following surgery.

A 16-year-old high school student is being accused of sending threats to two teachers, posing dire consequences if they were to hand out any Fs.

The e-mail read: “Just to let u know, any student you give an F to at the end of the semester will result in the severing of your spine and taking bits of it to jam in your mouth. If you are brave enough, please do it. Anyone receiving an F on the grade sheet at the end of the semester your life ceases to exist.”

Police were able to trace the e-mail back to an Internet service account held by a relative of the student, the Orange County Register reported.

Fountain Valley High School Principal Chris Herzfeld said he took the threats seriously.

Police are still investigating why a woman veered her car off the road, striking a family walking down the sidewalk. An infant was killed, and a father and his other two children were injured.

On Saturday police said Juan Villanueva was walking down Wilson Street with his infant in his arms when a car veered off the road striking him and his three children.

The infant baby Christopher later died at the hospital.

Andreina Villanueva said the pain is still very real and she can’t believe her baby brother is gone.

Andreina said, “He went to heaven because the car hit us, he didn’t suffer, I really loved him and I really miss him.”

Police said the driver of the car that caused the crash was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

A 17-year-old that graduated with a 4.0 GPA at Bullard High School in Fresno, California won’t get to use that honor to attend one of the United States’ top universities — he and his mother are being deported back to Armenia.

The family fled from what used to be part of the Soviet Union and has been seeking asylum since 1992.

A spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said they were given an extension until June 20 so [Arthur] Mkoyan could attend his graduation ceremony.

A federal bill called the DREAM Act that would have given some high-performing illegal immigrants legal status to attend college stalled last year in Congress.

Barack Obama voted for the DREAM Act, while John McCain was not present for the vote.

A 2-year-old in Napa, California that was reported missing was found later along the side of the road, apparently the victim of a hit and run driver.

The juvenile hall employee looked along the road and found the toddler lying unconscious near the curb across from the juvenile detention facility.

The employee carried the child across the street and began CPR. Paramedics arrived and also attempted to revive the child before taking her by ambulance to the Queen of the Valley Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Napa police were investigating the incident as a hit-and-run and called the department’s accident reconstruction team to the scene to diagram the area where the girl was found.

A 9-month-old boy had to have surgery after he was mauled by the family’s dog while playing in their living room. And, hey, what do you know, it wasn’t a pit bull, but a boxer.

Authorities said the attack took place at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday when an adult male boxer named Tyson lunged at the child in the home on the 3600 block of Monmouth Place. The infant sustained injuries to his face and neck, and was taken to Oakland Children’s Hospital where he underwent surgery.

Fremont police detective Bill Veteran said at the time of the attack the boy was with his sister and an aunt.

“The child was in the living room with two female adults –.one is an adult sister. The other…an aunt,” Veteran said. “For no apparent reason the dog lunged out and grabbed the child by the face and the neck.”