A suspect was arrested in connection with a hit-and-run crash that left a woman dead in Orange County.

The suspect was identified as Edgar Arce, 24, according to the Anaheim Police Department. 

On Sept. 15, police responded to a hit-and-run crash near Katella Avenue, just west of Euclid Street in Anaheim at around 4:40 a.m.

Officers found a woman with severe traumatic injury at the scene. She was transported to the hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

The victim was identified as Sabrina Ruiz Adame, a 47-year-old woman who was a transient, Anaheim police said.

Witnesses said they saw a dark-colored SUV traveling westbound on Katella Avenue fatally strike her. The suspect drove away from the scene without stopping.

Detectives later identified the driver as Arce. He was located and arrested on felony hit-and-run charges. His vehicle was recovered and is being processed for evidence.

The deadly crash remains under investigation. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the Anaheim Police Department at 714-765-1900 or Orange County Crime Stoppers at 855-TIP-OCCS.

Families are left without a home after a massive fire burned through an apartment building in L.A.’s Koreatown.

The fire occurred on Sept. 26 at a building on the 750 block of South Normandie Avenue in the early morning hours.

When firefighters arrived, smoke was billowing from the roof and the flames destroyed multiple apartment units, leaving families displaced and without a place to sleep.

“There are six units total that have suffered severe damage,” said Celeste Kessler with the Los Angeles Tenants Union. “What really blows my mind is that the L.A. Housing Department has declared this a habitable unit.”

Inside Maria Vargas’ apartment, the fire burned through her kitchen, bathroom, personal belongings and several walls, leaving the unit unsafe and uninhabitable. The ceiling was burned through where water can be seen leaking and a clear view into her neighbor’s apartment is visible.

Vargas said she’s frustrated over the lack of ability to do basic things like cook or bathe in her home while also worrying about taking care of her three children.

“I’m not doing very well,” Vargas told KTLA’s John Fenoglio through a Spanish translator. “I’m very worried. We need help to leave this apartment. We can’t stay here.”

Many of the displaced residents don’t have anywhere else to go.

“We spent the night in our car,” said Margarita Linares, a mother of two children whose apartment was also destroyed.

Frustrated tenants told KTLA they’ve tried contacting the building’s manager but he reportedly wouldn’t answer their questions or even speak with them until the following Monday.

“TDI Properties, the owner of this building, has been pretty negligent, I would say, in terms of responding to this fire,” Kessler said. “They have not been speaking with tenants. Tenants went to their office and they refused to open the door so the tenants are grasping at straws to find a place to go where they can live with their children and TDI is just ignoring them.”

Displaced residents are left scrambling and had asked for assistance with temporary housing but said they’ve been completely ignored.

“I can’t believe that this is the reaction I’m getting,” Linares said. “I always pay my rent on time and now that I need something from them, I can’t believe this is the reaction.”

“Council District 10 was on the scene, but so far they have not offered any recourse,” Kessler said. “They talked about hotel vouchers for tenants but at the end of the day, they told us they were out of them. So they truly haven’t been much help, either.”

“There should not be a circumstance where individuals are displaced due to a fire and they are unable to find housing in the short term,” an attorney, Ryan Kerns, explained of the situation. “If the landlord’s negligence was the cause of the fire, then the landlord is responsible for relocating costs and finding replacement apartments. If the landlord can find replacement apartments in the same unit that are of the same value as the apartments the tenants were already having, that can potentially constitute the replacement value of that property.”

On Saturday night, a spokesperson from Council District 10 told KTLA they are working on finding interim housing for the displaced tenants.

A GoFundMe page organized by the Los Angeles Tenants Union to help the affected tenants can be found here.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

KTLA has reached out to TDI Properties for a statement but has not heard back.

A bill to crack down on “hate littering” across California was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday.

Assembly Bill 3024, which was introduced by Asm. Chris Ward (D-San Diego), expands state civil rights protections against the dissemination of materials like flyers or pamphlets contain threatening speech with the intention of intimidating members of a protected class.

Also known as “hate littering,” this practice has become an increasing issue for neighborhoods throughout the Golden State, mirroring a wider nationwide surge in hate crimes based on race, religion or sexual orientation.

With the newly signed law, those targeted by hate littering will be able to seek civil damages from the individual behind the distribution of those materials. These protections go into effect immediately.

“The act of hate littering goes beyond what is intended in our First Amendment protections,” Ward said in a statement on Newsom’s signing of AB 3024.

“When hate groups are deliberately going into Jewish communities to leave anti-Semitic flyers on the doorsteps, vehicles and personal property of their victims to try to intimidate and harass them where they live, that’s not free speech,” Ward continued. “That’s attempting to turn neighbor against neighbor, and it makes the people these flyers are targeting afraid to be themselves and live their lives in their own neighborhood.”

AB 3024 builds off a landmark civil rights law in California, the Ralph Civil Rights Act of 1976. This law made it illegal to threaten or enact violence against an individual because of their actual or perceived characteristics like race, religion or sexual orientation.

The law was a direct response to intimidation tactics largely linked to white nationalist hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, such as the burning or desecration of a cross outside someone’s home with the intent of threatening its owner.

Proponents of the AB 3024 argued it would make necessary updates to strengthen the protections laid out under California’s civil rights law by incorporating modern day hate-based groups’ strategies.

Critics, on the other hand, expressed concern the measure could lead to overly broad limitations of speech given the often anonymous nature of the practice.