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A California man has been charged with the kidnapping and killing of a family of four, including an eight-month-old girl.

PASADENA, Calif. - A search is underway for a man believed to be kidnapped by two suspects in the Pasadena area.According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, two male suspects got out of a 2008 silver Infiniti G-35 on Michillinda Avenue near Colorado Boulevard on Thursday.The suspects approached a Hispanic-looking man, possibly in his 30s, walking on the side sidewalk. The suspects started attacking the man, knocking him out and then dragging him into the back seat of the Infiniti, LASD said.Photo: LASD The suspects drove off from the scene, traveling south on Michillinda Avenue, LASD said.LASD said the suspect car was seen with a California license plate number 6FMY326.Anyone with information is asked to call 562-946-7150. The Pasadena kidnapping case comes just days after a family in Merced was at the center of a statewide search.

MERCED, Calif. - A second suspect has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and murder of a California family.  Alberto Salgado was arrested Thursday night in Merced County for criminal conspiracy, accessory, and destroying evidence.

MERCED, Calif. - The suspect in the killing of a Merced family had worked for the victims at one point, according to a relative.A loved one told KTVU that Jesus Salgado, 48, once drove a truck for the family's company.The bodies of 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri, her parents Jasleen Kaur, 27, and Jasdeep Singh, 36; and her uncle Amandeep Singh, 39., were found at an orchard in Merced County two days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint from their business, police said.SEE ALSO: Body language analyzed while slain Merced family kidnapped"Our worst fears have been confirmed," Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said at a Wednesday night news conference.Warnke said the victims were close to each other when found by a farmworker tending to an almond orchard in a remote area near the town of Dos Palos, a town about 30 miles south of Merced where the family was kidnapped on Monday.A source close to the investigation told KTVU that the two brothers were killed with a machete. The source said Kaur was then shot as she held her baby girl in her arms.

A California-based family of four, including an eight-month-old infant, have been found dead two days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint.

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. - The missing California family believed to be kidnapped from Merced earlier in the week has been found dead.On Wednesday night Merced County Sheriff Vernon Warnke announced that all four family members – eight-month-old Aroohi Dheri and her parents, 27-year-old Jasleen Kaur and 36-year-old Jasdeep Singh, and the baby's 39-year-old uncle Amandeep Singh – were found dead.At the time of the family's disappearance, deputies believed the family was kidnapped Monday at gunpoint from a business in Merced.PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Kidnapping suspect in custody"Tonight our worst fears have been confirmed. We found the four people from the kidnapping and they are in fact deceased," Warnke said."There's no words right now to describe the anger I feel right now and the senselessness of this incident.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sacramento Sheriff's Office issued a press release Friday with more details on the background of the shooter who killed his daughters, their chaperone and then himself at a Sacramento church earlier this week. According to the sheriff, the shooter, who was previously identified as David Fidel Mora-Rojas, 39, had lived at the church, was in the country illegally and the department said they had prior contact with him on April 17, 2021. Immigration officials told Associated Press on Friday, Mora-Rojas was in the United States illegally. A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Mora-Rojas overstayed his visa after entering California from Mexico in December 2018.The Merced County Sheriff's Office said because of California's so-called sanctuary state law it did not inform immigration officials last week that Mora-Rojas had been arrested for punching an officer. Authorities say a man shot and killed his three children, one other person and then turned the gun on himself at a church in Sacramento on Monday, the sheriff's office confirmed.

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Merced County Sheriff SWAT members enter the University of California, Merced campus after a reported stabbing on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, in Merced, Calif.

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FORT WORTH, Texas – The silence that greeted the return of the PGA Tour at Colonial will be a familiar sound for the first major of the year.The PGA of America has submitted plans to hold the PGA Championship at Harding Park without spectators, and the San Francisco Chronicle reports public health officials have approved it.An announcement was pending approval by San Francisco officials and was expected as early as Tuesday.It at least sets the PGA Championship for Aug.

Beloved entertainer Bruce Forsyth died at the age of 89, three years ago, after a highly praised career that spanned more than seven decades.The TV star shot into the spotlight while performing as a dancer and compére in the theatre, before going on to front popular shows on the radio and small screen. The ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ host, who had six children from three marriages, tied the knot with his final wife Wilnelia Merced in 1983.The former Miss World, now 62, who was born in Puerto Rico, hit the headlines this week after she sold the couple’s Wentworth Estate, in Surrey, for a staggering £5.5million before the coronavirus lockdown.She told the Daily Mail that it was “hard to leave a place with so many happy memories”, but she felt sad