A motorcyclist in a full Easter bunny costume was pulled over Saturday on a Southern California freeway in a traffic stop that was caught on the California Highway Patrol officer's camera.

The bunny -- driving a red motorcycle with a sidecar -- was pulled over on the westbound 8 Freeway. Instead of a helmet as required by law, the man was wearing a bunny costume head -- as required by the charity event to which he was traveling.

The CHP officer radioed: "I'm stopping the Easter Bunny.''

The bunny received a warning after the officer explained the safety issues of not wearing a helmet, according to the CHP.

More than two dozen teens were arrested Saturday night after dozens of mob groups began attacking pedestrians on the Magnificent Mile, an upscale area in Chicago.

Police said 28 teens were arrested after reports of disturbances near Michigan and Chicago Avenues, and no serious injuries were reported.

The teens were charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and battery and later released, according to Police News Affairs. Eleven other teens were charged with misdemeanor charges after they allegedly attacked a group of women on the CTA Red Line, police said.

“You have over three to four hundred teenagers with mob action, jumping on individuals that are downtown,” said community activist Andrew Holmes. “Multiple people have been arrested and I caution those parents that get this call about your child being arrested--maybe you need to check your child.”

Officers began breaking up the attacks by ushering teens to the Red Line. Chaos continued underground but many attackers reportedly left the area.

“I just saw a cluster run down to the Red Line,” said Red Line passenger Amanda Dobson. “I didn't know what was going on. I just kind of stepped back and let the police do what they needed to do.”

Police continued to patrol the area on bikes, horses and on foot as smaller groups wandered around the Loop.

It is not clear if the attacks are related to a similar mobbing of Ford City Mall last month.

Residents were concerned that this could be the first in a long line of attacks after warm weather brought on a string of similar instances last year. 

"It's been happening a lot around here," said Eric Baldinger, who works along the Mag Mile. "Just keep your wallet close and your purse closer."

Others said the attacks were disappointing and feared for the future of the city.

"I think it’s very childish," said resident Angelica Wilson. "That’s what wrong with the generation today because there’s always petty fights going on down here and everybody getting hurt. We don’t need more problems."

Two women died in a collision involving a wrong-way driver on a North County highway.

California Highway Patrol officers are investigating the cause of the deadly crash that occurred along eastbound State Route 78 just west of San Marcos Boulevard around 3 a.m. Monday.

CHP Officer James Bettencourt confirmed two people died in the collision but did not provide any other details.

The crash involved a 1997 Nissan Maxima registered out of San Marcos and a 2001 Chrysler PT Cruiser registered to an Escondido address officials said.

The PT Cruiser driver died at the scene and the Nissan driver died at Palomar Hospital from injuries sustained in the crash according to the CHP.

Initially a Sig Alert was issued and traffic was closed on the eastbound lanes. That alert has since been canceled and all lanes are open.

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If anyone witnessed this collision or has any information they are asked to call the California Highway Patrol at (858) 637-3800.

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The end of YouTube, smell-enabled Google search, Twitter paywall, bacon mouthwash. If these ideas sound like jokes, that's because they are.

Monday is April Fools' Day and cheeky marketers and companies have peppered the web with fake campaigns, products and services leading up to and on April 1 to dupe the masses on this fun-filled day. Twitter, Procter & Gamble and Metro News have all jumped in on the action, and Google is leading the pack with nine ruses to get people laughing.

American Eagle Outfitters got an early start when they launched the Skinny Skinny Jeans, a new line of denim wear that shoppers can spray paint onto their bodies.

Google Nose Beta - Ever wondered what a ghost smells like? How about the sweet smell of success? Google's latest product is touted as Smell-O-Vision for the web, and its intention is to fill a void in the web search experience: the ability to convey the scent of an object or idea with the click of a button. "In the fast-paced world that we live in, we don't always have time to stop and smell the roses," said Google's product manager Jon Wooly in a YouTube video announcement. "Now with Google Nose, the roses are just a click away."

Google also announced the launch of "Treasure Mode" on Google Maps to allow users to search for clues on the whereabouts of William "Captain" Kidd's treasure. There are also Gmail Blue, Google+ Photo Emoticons, Google SCHMICK (Simple Complete House Makeover Internet Conversion Kit) and a new Levity Algorithm app that allows workers to spruce up their work days with "algorithmically determined suggestions from the database." This means "employee reviews" on Google Calendar can turn into "peanut butter jelly time," an email entitled "HR Memo" can be changed to "The New Hotness" and a boring PowerPoint presentation can be embellished with flames and sound effects just by clicking the app's levity button.

Goodbye, YouTube - YouTube made a video to announce that the time had come to shut down the website and enlisted some of the site's most famous Internet celebrities to determine the best video ever created. Antoine Dodson, who had warned his neighbors to "hide your kids, hide your wife," world traveler Matt Harding of "Where the Hell is Matt?" and David Devore Jr., the loopy kid who recovered from dental surgery in the back seat of his dad's car, are up for the grand prize. "My dad put a lot of money into this dental surgery that I didn't even need just so we can win this contest," Devore said in the video.

I'd Like to Buy a Vowel - Twitter announced the launch of their new basic service "Twttr," which limits users to tweets with consonants only. But for $5 a month, Twitter will enable the use of vowels. "We’re doing this because we believe that by eliminating vowels, we’ll encourage a more efficient and 'dense' form of communication," wrote Kevin Weil, the microblogging site's Director of Product Revenue. Click here to let Twitter to help you convert tweets into the new format.

Twyttyr? Why byy vywyls whyn yyy gyt "Y" fyr fryy? Syckyrs! #nvwls

— Joan Rivers (@Joan_Rivers) April 1, 2013

A Prank Wrapped in an Enigma, Wrapped in a Prank - The U.K.'s Metro News did its own round-up of all the April Fools' jokes from other news sites. "Pope Francis shuns traditional Popemobile for austere alternative," reads one headline from The Guardian. Another from the BBC said, "Nasa's Curiosity rover quits Twitter after abuse from trolls." But try searching for these fake stories on those news sites, and readers will quickly discover the wrinkle: This round-up is fake. None of the pranks actually appeared on any of those news sites. “Too lazy and unimaginative to make up their own April Fools’ jokes, this year Metro simply decided to fake ten entirely fictional pranks other people didn’t do instead," Metro News wrote at the bottom of the round-up.

Bacon for Your Breath - Procter and Gamble has jumped into the April Fools' fray with the introduction of its new Bacon Scope mouthwash. The product "just tastes like bacon while you swish but leaves your breath smelling minty fresh five times longer than brushing alone," according to its website. The mouthwash has been dismissed as a prank, but the company has been playing it straight and insisting that the product is real.

With our new flavor #ScopeBacon you can taste breakfast while washing it away. Watch the video bddy.me/Z3jPCx

— ScopeMouthwash (@ScopeMouthwash) April 1, 2013

After one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down in January, Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland carried a gun everywhere, even when walking the dog.

He was extra careful when answering the door at his home outside of Forney, about 20 miles east of Dallas. And a neighbor said a sheriff's deputy was stationed outside the home for about a month after the killing.

On Saturday, McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot to death in their house. Authorities haven't said much about their investigation, including whether they have any leads or a theory about why the couple was killed. But law enforcement throughout Texas is on high alert, and steps are being taken to better protect other DAs and their staffs.

"It's unnerving and it's unnerving to the law enforcement community," said Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes. "It's unnerving to the community at large and that's why we're striving to assure the community that we are still providing public safety. And we'll continue to do that. We're meeting all of our obligations plus the investigative responsibilities."

Tarrant County District Attorney Joe Shannon said his staff has been cautioned, but he declined to discuss the specific security measures that have been taken. Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins declined to comment on the issue, citing safety concerns.

Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson said he accepted the Houston sheriff's offer of 24-hour security for him and his family after learning about the slayings, mostly over concerns for his family's safety. Anderson said he also would take precautions at his office, the largest one in Texas, which has more than 270 prosecutors.

"I think district attorneys across Texas are still in a state of shock," Anderson said Sunday.

Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes said little at a brief news conference Sunday about the McLelland investigation, and he deflected questions about possible suspects. He said security would be stepped up at the courthouse in Kaufman, but he declined to say what other steps might be taken to protect the other prosecutors in McLelland's office. The DA's Office will remain closed Monday.

Sources told NBCDFW that the couple was killed with an assault weapon.

The FBI and the Texas Rangers joined the investigation into the McLellands' deaths.

There will be heavy security at the Kaufman County courthouse on Monday. And while members of the District Attorney's staff will be there, the office will be closed to the public.

Questions After Other Killings

The couple's slayings came less than two weeks after Colorado's prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by an ex-convict, and a couple of months after Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was killed in a parking lot a block from his courthouse office. No arrests have been made in Hasse's slaying Jan. 31.

Byrnes would not give details Sunday of how the killings unfolded and said there was nothing to indicate for certain whether the DA's slaying was connected to Hasse's.

El Paso County, Colo., sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Joe Roybal said investigators had found no evidence so far connecting the Texas killings to the Colorado case, but added: "We're examining all possibilities."

Colorado's corrections director, Tom Clements, was killed March 19 when he answered the doorbell at his home outside Colorado Springs. Evan Spencer Ebel, a white supremacist and former Colorado inmate suspected of shooting Clements, died in a shootout with Texas deputies two days later about 100 miles from Kaufman.

McLelland himself, in an Associated Press interview shortly after the Colorado slaying, raised the possibility that Hasse was gunned down by a white supremacist gang.

McLelland, elected DA in 2010, said his office had prosecuted several cases against racist gangs, who have a strong presence around Kaufman County, a mostly rural area dotted with subdivisions, with a population of about 104,000.

"We put some real dents in the Aryan Brotherhood around here in the past year," he said.

In recent years, the DA's office also prosecuted a case in which a justice of the peace was found guilty of theft and burglary and another case in which a man was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter.

McLelland, 63, is the 13th prosecutor killed in the U.S. since the National Association of District Attorneys began keeping count in the 1960s.

McLelland said he carried a gun everywhere around town, a bedroom community for the Dallas area. He figured assassins were more likely to try to attack him outside. He said he had warned all his employees to be constantly on the alert.

"The people in my line of work are going to have to get better at it," he said of dealing with the danger, "because they're going to need it more in the future."

The number of attacks on prosecutors, judges and senior law enforcement officers in the U.S. has spiked in the past three years, according to Glenn McGovern, an investigator with the Santa Clara County, Calif., district attorney's office who tracks such cases.

For about a month after Hasse's slaying, sheriff's deputies were parked in the district attorney's driveway, said Sam Rosander, a McLelland neighbor.

Remembering the McLellands

On Sunday, Easter Celebrations ended with prayers of desperation in Kaufman County.

"This was his office, this was his place of employment," said Donald Kile, whose River Life Church of Kemp held a prayer vigil outside the courthouse Sunday night. "This is the place that we're supposed to come and we're supposed to say 'okay, Lord, we're putting it in your hands'."

McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, 65, were the parents of two daughters and three sons. One son is a police officer in Dallas. The couple had moved into the home a few years ago, Forney Mayor Darren Rozell said.

"Real friendly, became part of our community quickly," Rozell said. "They were a really pleasant, happy couple."

The evening after the bodies of the Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were discovered in their home in Forney, family and friends shared fond memories of the couple.

Tonya Ratcliff, the Kaufman County Tax Assessor and McLelland family friend of nearly a decade, said there is an enormous sense of loss in the area.

“They lose a very strong agent for justice and they lose a woman who wouldn’t step on a bug,” Ratcliff said.

“Cynthia and Mike were a lot of fun,” she added.

“They were funny people, they were witty. They had lots of stories.”

Ratcliff said the McLellands were welcoming and hospitable, opening their home for a massive party every December.

She said both were very involved in county political clubs, adding Mike McLelland was also a member of the Lions Club and Cynthia McLelland, a psychiatric nurse at the Terrell State Hospital, spent much of her time with the Kaufman Quilt Guild.

She added that after Mike McLelland’s election to district attorney, he began “making a difference” for the county.

“His office handled a lot of cases that came out on the guilty side. We were winning cases with him as our district attorney.”

However, what Ratcliff said was most apparent about the McLellands was their devotion to each other.

“They were deeply, deeply in love and so attached to each other,” she said.

“Not just in front of each other, but apart from each other. You would never hear one of them say an ugly word about the other one.”

“They were just a wonderful couple and it was a pleasure to be around them – and I will miss them.”

Multiple NBC 5 reporters and editors, as well as Nomaan Merchant and Nicholas Riccardi, contributed to this collaborative report.

A high-speed pursuit ended in a crash into a utility pole, putting about 1500 customers in the dark.

The pursuit of a reported stolen car began about 10 p.m. Sunday according to San Diego police.

The California Highway Patrol officers began chasing the stolen Toyota on westbound State Route 94 near State Route 15.

A news photographer captured the pursuit along Interstate 805 before the driver exited onto Euclid Avenue.

Officers say during the chase, the suspect vehicle hit another car but kept going.

Ultimately, the suspect crashed into a pole in front of a Walgreens on Euclid just south of 8th causing the power outage.

The suspects took off on foot.

Police say they found one of the suspects at an apartment complex on East Plaza Drive and Euclid Avenue.

The other suspect still has not been found.
 

An 11-year-old boy was expected to be released from the hospital Monday after doctors were unable to reattach his pinky that was bit off by the family dog, according to the Bradenton Herald.

Fernando Brignoni, from Tampa, was attempting to pet his dog and stuck his hands through the slots in his dog’s cage when the dog completely bit off his finger, a Manatee Sheriff’s Office report said.

The boy’s father took the dog out of the cage, shot it multiple times and removed the severed finger from the dog's stomach, the report said.

"You don't know what you will do for your child,” the father, Luis Brignoni, 41, told the newspaper. "You don't know where you get the strength from."

The boy was airlifted to All Children's Hospital and later transferred to Tampa General Hospital.

But the doctors decided not to reattach the finger due to the damaged nerves, the father told the Herald.

A preliminary investigation by the Manatee Sheriff’s Office supports the father’s accounts of the events and said it appears to be an accident.

Manatee County Animal Services took possession of the remains of the dog, authorities said.
 

Crews are investigating a fire that destroyed a two-story home near Palomar Mountain – the first house fire in the area in more than a decade.

The fire started around 6 p.m. Sunday at the home on Crestline Road right behind the Palomar Mountain Volunteer Fire Department.

The house was already engulfed in flames when firefighters got the call.

Crews used water tenders to douse the flames.

Because there are no fire hydrants in the area, they had to truck the water back and forth.

Some of the grass in the back of the house did catch fire but those flames were put out.

No trees or other houses were affected or damaged.

“Since 1998 was the last structure fire they had up here. So we don't see a lot of them," said Asst. Chief Cliff Kellogg. "Most people up here are very careful."

No word yet on the cause of the fire but firefighters say it likely started on the ground floor.
 

A Texas judge said the connection between this weekend's double-murder of his county's district attorney and his wife with the slaying of his top prosecutor earlier this year is "obvious."

The bodies of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were found Saturday afternoon.

The couple had been shot in their Forney, Texas, home nearly two months to the day after Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was gunned down while walking toward the county courthouse.

Sheriff's deputies have not definitively linked the gruesome killings but said a connection was likely.

"This was not just a random act. It seems to me there has to be some connection," Judge Bruce Wood said.

Wood said investigators so far have not found physical evidence directly linking the murders and officials have not named any suspects.

As dozens of Kaufman County employees went to work Monday morning, they had heavy hearts — but they also had an armed escort. Police officers and sheriff's deputies walked with staffers right up to the front door.

"They're concerned, definitely. We're all definitely concerned," said Jim Donaldson, an investigator with the district attorney's office.

The courthouse is open for business, but the district attorney's office is closed to the public. There's also heightened security inside and outside the courthouse, with police cruisers stationed at every corner Monday morning.

There are 14 prosecutors in the county and a staff of about 30 people in the district attorney's office. Many employees said they considered taking the day off.

"I could have, yes, but it's my responsibility to be at work," said clerk's office employee Imelda Saldana. "It's confusing. It's scary."

Wood admits his safety, and his family's safety, is first on his mind today with a killer still on the loose.

"To say that we're not concerned would not be truthful," Wood said.

Following Hasse's murder, McLelland had a direct message for the killer: "We are going to find you, we are going to pull you out of whatever hole you are in, we're going to bring you back and we're going to let the people of Kaufman County prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law," McLelland said in January.

Wood was asked if that bold statement cost McLelland his life.

"To go back and say this was retribution for something he said or didn't say, I mean, the district attorney's office deals with a lot of bad issues," Wood said. "For me to think that something he said, or some action he took, caused this, I just don't know."

Meanwhile, all of the Kaufman County judges were meeting Monday to discuss how to move forward with criminal cases now that the district attorney and his top assistant are gone. They were also to speak with Gov. Rick Perry's office Monday about getting a new district attorney in place as soon as possible.

Los Angeles police officials announced Monday the search for Northridge kidnapping suspect Tobias Summers has expanded to San Diego.

Investigators confirmed one person has been arrested in the case of a kidnapped 10-year-old Northridge girl, who turned up barefoot and wounded in Woodland Hills late last month.

LAPD said the subject under arrest is not the man police identified as the primary suspect -- Tobias Dustin Summers.

The case involves a 10-year-old girl who was kidnapped from her home March 27 between 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. She was taken to several locations in the San Fernando Valley before being dropped off in Woodland Hills.

The victim told police that two men took her from her bedroom.

She walked about a mile to a Starbucks where a passerby recognized her from media reports and alerted police. She was found barefoot and with bruises and cuts on her face at 3 p.m. the same day she went missing, police said.

Police announced last week that Summers, who has a lengthy criminal history dating back to 2002 including arrests for assault and battery, and kidnapping, was the primary suspect in the case.

LAPD Commander Andrew Smith said Monday that Summers may be hiding in the San Diego area, "and he may have shaved his head to alter his appearance."

Summers was released from prison in July 2012 under California’s AB 109, an initiative aimed at easing prison overcrowding and was on "post-supervised release," according to police.

Probation officials believe the 30-year-old is a transient known to frequent the North Hollywood and Devonshire areas.

"The information on him being in San Diego is very new," said Smith, adding that detectives are still working to verify the lead.

Summers is about 6 feet tall, 160 pounds, with blue eyes and has been known to wear his blond hair cropped however, authorities believe he has since shaved his head.

He is not a registered sex offender and authorities said there is no indication at this time that the victim or her family knows the suspect.

Anyone who spots Summers is asked to call 911.

Families of victims killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting are making an emotional plea that any new state gun control law does not include a clause that grandfathers existing large-capacity magazines, as state lawmakers get ready to learn more about legislative leaders' gun control deal.

Twenty children and six educators were killed inside Sandy Hook Elementary School on the morning of Dec. 14, 2012.

In the letter the family members delivered to Connecticut lawmakers on Monday, they wrote that the Sandy Hook shooter carried 10 magazines, which each held 30 bullets, and left many smaller magazines at home.

"Miraculously, in the time that it took him to reload in one of the classrooms, 11 children were able to escape and are alive today," the family members wrote in their letter to lawmakers. "We are left to wonder, what if the Sandy Hook shooter had been forced to reload not 6 times but 15 times. Would more children, would our children, be alive today?"

The letter was delivered on the day that lawmakers are set to learn more about bipartisan legislation that legislative leadership has reached agreement on.

During a news conference on Monday morning, Nicole Hockley, mother of slain first-grader Dylan Hockley, spoke and asked for no grandfather clause.

Those who lost family members said they believe that large-capacity magazines are the most dangerous feature of an assault weapon and fear that people would be able to buy high-capacity magazines in other states and bring them into Connecticut, claiming to have owned them before new laws took effect.

"Additionally, the 'grandfathered' possession of large capacity magazines is not in the public interest and exposes our communities to an unacceptable risk of additional mass shootings," the letter states.

Gov. Dannel Malloy released a statement in response to the letter.

"I have been clear for weeks that a ban on the possession and sale of high capacity magazines is an important part of our effort to prevent gun violence – simply banning their sale moving forward would not be an effective solution," Malloy wrote.

"This morning, we heard from victims’ families on that very point. They’ve asked for an up or down vote on that provision and, whether it’s in the larger bill or as an amendment, the families, and every resident of our state, deserve a vote. We know this is an issue that has bipartisan support, including from Senate Minority Leader John McKinney. We cannot lose sight of our ultimate goal – improving public safety for all of our residents, including our children."

In a poll released last month, Quinnipiac University's polling institute found that 70 percent of people support a statewide ban on the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 bullets, while 27 percent opposed it.

One person has been arrested in the case of a kidnapped 10-year-old Los Angeles girl who turned up barefoot and wounded in a neighborhood near her own last week.

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the arrest Monday afternoon. The subject under arrest is not the man police identified as the primary suspect, Tobias Dustin Summers. NBC 4 Southern California is attempting to obtain details regarding the arrest of the man police identified as 29-year-old Daniel Martinez, of the city's West Hills neighborhood.

Detectives gathered information during the weekend that led to Martinez's arrest, said LAPD Commander Andrew Smith.

Bond was set at $1 million. Police declined to discuss how the two men knew each other.

The search for Summers (pictured, below) has expanded to the San Diego area, Smith said at a mid-day news conference. Smith said that Summers "may have shaved his head to alter his appearance."

"The information on him being in San Diego is very new," said Smith, adding that detectives are still working to verify the lead.

The case involves a 10-year-old girl who was kidnapped from her home in Los Angeles' Northridge neighborhood on March 27 between 1 a.m. and 3:30 a.m. She was taken to several locations in the San Fernando Valley before being dropped off in the Woodland Hills neighborhood.

The victim told police that two men took her from her bedroom.

She walked about a mile to a Starbucks where a passerby recognized her from media reports and alerted police. She was found barefoot and with bruises and cuts on her face at 3 p.m. the same day she went missing, police said.

Police announced last week that Summers, who has a lengthy criminal history dating back to 2002 including arrests for assault and battery and kidnapping, was the primary suspect in the case. Summers was released from prison in July 2012 under California’s AB 109, an initiative aimed at easing prison overcrowding and was on "post-supervised release," according to police.

Probation officials believe the 30-year-old is a transient known to frequent the North Hollywood and Devonshire areas. Summers is about 6 feet tall, 160 pounds, with blue eyes and cropped blond hair. He is not a registered sex offender, and authorities said there is no indication at this time that the victim or her family knows the suspect.

A motocyclist in full Easter bunny costume was pulled over Saturday on a Southern California freeway in a traffic stop that was caught on the California Highway Patrol officer's camera.

The bunny -- driving a red motorcycle with a sidecar -- was pulled over on the westbound 8 Freeway at Jackson Drive. Instead of a helmet as required by law, the man was wearing a bunny costume head -- as required by the charity event to which he was traveling.

The CHP officer radioed: "I'm stopping the Easter Bunny.''

The bunny received a warning after the officer explained the safety issues of not wearing a helmet, according to the CHP.

A man high on drugs allegedly drove a car into a San Jose Walmart's beer display before grabbing a blunt object - perhaps a metal pole - and began beating customers Sunday morning, before he was arrested.

San Jose police said they received word that a red Cutlass had driven into the Walmart at 777 Story Road at 11:15 a.m. on Sunday. Customers said he crashed right through the store into a beer display.

"I heard this big crash-Crrrr-like," said customer Rick Sorci. "What was that? So I’m looking around and all of a sudden I see all these people screaming and running, like terror on their face. I have no idea what’s going on. I’m asking these people, 'What happened? What happened?' They are all screaming running toward the exit. "

Police said on Monday that Haamid Zaid, 33, of Seaside got out of the car, grabbed a blunt object from inside the store and began hitting people with it. Four people were injured, one of them seriously. Sources say a pregnant woman may be among the injured, all of whom were taken to the hospital. San Jose Fire Capt. Reggie Williams said it appeared as no one was hit by the car, but by flying objects. He did say, however, that the bizarre incident took an emotional toll on many who watched it.

Angry and fearful customers stopped Zaid, some trying to hold him down with belts.

Zaid was arrested on four counts of assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run, and being under the influence of drugs. Police said they had no motive to report.

The unusual and dangerous situation was indeed a shock to Sunday morning shoppers.

"There was a gentleman that was in a car, a red old school car and he was driving hysterical, running in and out of the parking lot, into people’s cars," Athena Byrd said. "I mean like he was just out of control."

A motorcyclist screamed for help from passersby when he became trapped under an SUV and was dragged several feet Sunday.

A man riding his motorcycle north on Santo Road was hit broadside by an SUV around 8 p.m. San Diego police said.

The man was trapped under the car and dragged for a considerable amount of time and distance by the SUV before the driver stopped officials said.

Witnesses told police the driver of the SUV tried to run from the scene.

Officers said the motorcyclist broke his leg.

“They are non-life threatening injuries,” said Sgt. Art Doherty with San Diego police. “Never the less, because of the severity of the injuries, we are charging the driver of the SUV with felony DUI.”
 

A driver died after their car hit a house in Lomita Monday afternoon, according to fire officials.

The incident happened around 1:30 p.m. at 475 Braun Ave. in a residential area.

Officials said the 85-year-old driver was traveling about 60 mph and struck a street light before slamming into a structure. The driver was later declared dead.

Police are unsure if the cause of death was because of the collision, or if a medical issue beforehand had an effect on the driver. Officials said it does not appear as though alcohol was involved.

Witnesses who lives next door to crash site said the car was going 70 to 80 mph.

No one inside the home was injured.

Check back for updates on this story.

Prosecutors on Monday said they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in last year's movie theater attack that killed 12, wounded 58 and spurred new gun control laws in Colorado.

The much-anticipated disclosure came in a court hearing held four days after prosecutors publicly rejected an offer by James Holmes' attorneys that the former neuroscience graduate student would plead guilty to avoid execution.

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Prosecutors had said the defense proposal wasn't a valid plea bargain offer, although they could still agree to a plea before the case goes to trial.

"It's my determination and my intention that in this case for James Eagan Holmes justice is death," Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler said at the Monday hearing. He spoke quietly and deliberately without any hesitation.

There was no audible reaction from Holmes, who sat in court with his back to reporters.

Holmes' parents sat side by side in the gallery, clutching hands with fingers intertwined.

They were also quiet, as were the victims in the courtroom when Brauchler disclosed his decision, which he said he had shared with no one.

He said he had personally discussed the case with 60 people who lost relatives in the shooting. Overall, prosecutors have consulted with 800 victims and relatives.

Bryan Beard, whose best friend Alex Sullivan was killed in the attack, was in an overflow courtroom during the announcement.

"I had a huge adrenaline rush," he said. "I love the choice, I love it, I love it ... I hope I'm in the room when he dies."

Holmes' attorneys are expected to argue he is not guilty because he was legally insane at the time of the July 20 shooting. They balked at entering that plea last month, saying they couldn't make such a move until prosecutors made a formal decision on the death penalty.

Investigators say Holmes methodically stockpiled weapons and ammunition for his assault on a packed midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" and booby-trapped his apartment to explode and distract any police who responded.

Last week, prosecutors said they had rejected an offer from Holmes' attorney to have him plead guilty and serve life in prison, saying the offer wasn't a serious attempt at plea bargaining. They accused the defense of trying to gin up public support for a plea deal.

In a sign of how long the case could drag on, District Judge William Sylvester on Monday named a new judge — Carlos A. Samour Jr. — to take over the case. As chief judge for the district, Sylvester is responsible for the overall running of the court. He said he couldn't do that and oversee a complicated death penalty case.

In his order, Sylvester said "a final resolution of this case is now likely years away."

The timeline disturbed victims.

"It could be 10 or 15 years before he's executed," said Pierce O'Farrill, who was shot three times in the attack. "I would be in my 40s, and I'm planning to have a family, and the thought of having to look back and reliving everything at that point in my life, it would be difficult."

If prosecutors do eventually accept a deal, they will want to ensure that it's air-tight, said Karen Steinhauser, a former prosecutor who is now an adjunct professor at the University of Denver law school.

Holmes would give up his right to appeal by pleading guilty, she said. And although he could ask to change the plea if new evidence surfaces or if he claimed his lawyers were ineffective, "it's very, very hard to withdraw it," she said.

The judge would want assurances from defense lawyers that Holmes is mentally competent to plead guilty and accept a life sentence with no parole, Steinhauser said.

The judge could order a mental competency evaluation before accepting a guilty plea, but Steinhauser said that's unlikely unless Holmes showed some sign of incompetence.

The theater massacre was repeatedly cited by gun control advocates who pushed a hotly contested package through the Colorado state Legislature last month. The bills include a ban on the sort of high-capacity magazines that Holmes allegedly used to spray the theater with dozens of bullets in a matter of seconds.

President Obama is scheduled to visit Denver on Wednesday to highlight the legislation as part of his push for more gun control following December's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.