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  • Killed Kayaker ID'd as Chief of Staff, Dept. on Disability at City of Los Angeles, Nicole Willet

    Allie Smith, Observer Staff Writer|Sep 6, 2018

    9/5 Sheriffs identified the woman who was hit and killed by a power boat while kayaking in Marina del Rey on Labor Day, as Nicole Willett, the chief of staff of the City of Los Angeles' Department on Disability. Willett, 46, of Venice was fatally injured about 1:10 p.m. Monday near the south jetty, the coroner's office said. Willett had been chief of staff of the Department on Disability since December 2014, according to her LinkedIn page. The driver of the boat was not cited, and there was no...

  • Headless Body Found in Santa Monica Parking Garage, Apparent Suicide Victim

    Allie Smith, Observer Staff Writer|Sep 6, 2018

    9/5: It was a grim reminder of how badly wrong things can go when they go badly wrong. A man attempting to kill himself by leaping from Parking Structure 4 near Arizona and 2nd St., somehow managed to decapitate himself on the way down. Santa Monica police have apparently found the headless body in one part of the parking structure, and the head someplace else. This is a developing story and presumably an SMPD press release will no doubt be forthcoming. The police have blocked off Second Street...

  • At OPCC, a Screaming Woman Keeps Other Guests Awake at Night

    Allie Smith|Feb 13, 2018
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    Dear Editor: There are women living at (O.P.C.C.) Daybreak Shelter in Santa Monica who are so severely mental that they are a danger to themselves, and everyone at this facility. This person "Jeanine" screams and sobs, and curses all night long so that the other women cannot sleep. They become angry and combative after having to put up with her psychotic episodes. Other women staying there tell her to shut up and threaten to beat her up if she doesn't stop. The Staff chooses to leave her...