The suspect who broke into the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was heroin addiction, According to his father.
Los Angeles County authorities arrested 29-year-old Ephraim Matthew Hunter and charged him with theft and allegedly vandalizing bystanders. Mayor’s Windsor Square home vandalized Through a window during security shift change on Sunday morning.
Hunter’s father, Donald Hunter, told Fox News Digital, “He’s never done anything like this, but … drugs make you do anything, and he did drugs, so that’s the problem.”
According to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office, Efraim was previously convicted of aggravated assault and robbery with a hammer in Norfolk, Massachusetts in 2015. After being released from prison, Donald said, Ephraim moved to Los Angeles to live with his brother and turn his life around.
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A suspect was captured Sunday morning after breaking into the Getty House, the official home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. (Google Map)
“He had just come out of prison and … wanted to make a change. He came out (to Los Angeles) and was working, and then he started doing drugs, and his brother said he couldn’t Wanted him to take drugs home, so he came to the streets,” the elder Hunter said.
“(H)e ended up on the streets.”
Los Angeles Police Department The first responders were to Bass’s home, known as the Getty House, around 6:40 a.m. Sunday. The LAPD said during a Tuesday press conference that the suspect scaled a wall around Bass’s home as the night security guards changed shifts with the morning security guards, leading officers to believe he had “killed” the mayor. “Target”.
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“(Ephraim) quickly jumped over the fence, and was able to get through the back of the house. And from my understanding, it happened so quickly that if someone had been there, he probably still would have been able to get to the house where the residence was.” Inside,” said Interim LAPD Chief Dominic Choi.
District Attorney George Gascón said Tuesday that prosecutors believe Ephraim Hunter was targeting Mayor Karen Bass. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
District Attorney George Gascón said Tuesday that prosecutors believe Ephraim Hunter was aiming the bass, Jo was at home with her daughter, her son-in-law and her grandson at the time of the break-in.
“We believe he was targeting the mayor, but this is an ongoing investigation,” Gascón said. “There were certain activities that occurred while he was inside the property that are consistent with the fact that he knew that It was the mayor’s house, and he was the one looking for her.”
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This is the second time Bais has been the victim of a home burglary in two years. In 2022, during his campaign, two suspects stole firearms from the mayor’s Baldwin Vista home.
Former LA resident Kevin Dalton described the crime against Mayer as “the last clear sign of what is happening to Los Angeles, not only with crime, but with the criminals themselves.”
“Crime has gone so out of control and criminals have become so brazen now. They are not only breaking into a few houses The most expensive parts of Los Angeles. They’re literally breaking into the mayor’s house. It seems like you would make an analogy for a bad city, Dalton said.
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Dalton also expressed her belief that the mayor was using the break-in as an “opportunity” after authorities reported that she had been “targeted.”
Karen Bass’s home was vandalized during her mayoral campaign in September 2022. (Alan J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
“The first intrusion was a tremendous opportunity… During their campaign, when two people broke into their home, left laptops, cash and other valuables outside, they found two guns that were locked in a safe, and only stole them. Took,” Dalton said. “So, clearly, they’re going to benefit.”
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Dalton said that despite the city’s efforts to spend millions of dollars to house the approximately 40,000 people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles, “the people who need help the most are not getting it”. Last week, the Los Angeles City Council agreed to a federal judge’s request to pay $2.2 million to an outside firm to audit the city’s programs to combat homelessness.
According to the Mayor’s Inside Safe program, more than 21,000 homeless residents were moved into temporary shelters The Associated Press,
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Dalton said he wants Bass “to succeed” but he thinks more needs to be done to prevent random crime from victimizing innocent residents, including two women in L.A.’s Venice Canals neighborhood on April 6. But considering a random and brutal attack, which left both victims hospitalized. Serious injuries.
He said, “It’s random, it’s violent… You can’t see it coming. It’s the most horrific form of violence.”
Fox News’ Christine Park and Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
