A bizarre and explosive scene unfolded when a woman dressed in black scrubs was seen screaming and taking shots at a Los Angeles County firefighter while he was inside his vehicle Wednesday in Gardena.  

According to officials with L.A. County Fire, personnel were called to the scene on Manhattan Beach Boulevard just after 12 p.m. on reports of a traffic collision.  

In footage of the incident obtained by KTLA, the woman, who was seemingly outraged, is seen yelling and screaming at the firefighter behind the wheel of a department SUV.  

The situation quickly escalates into a physical attack as the woman slaps the public safety officer, at one point balling up her first and pulling back like she was about to punch him in the face.

Frank Rojas, who lives on the street and witnessed the incident, pulled his phone out and recorded the tense situation.  

“I Just hear chaos ensue,” he told KTLA. “I guess it was a fire officer and the officer was trying to deescalate and calm her down. 

Asked what the woman was yelling at the firefighter about, Rojas said it was mostly just curse words and accusing the firefighter of following her.

The woman, later identified as 36-year-old Inglewood resident Jessica Chavez, jumped into her vehicle and started driving around and around until officers with the Gardena Police Department, who came to assist the firefighter, say the 36-year-old deliberately slammed her car into an undercover officer’s vehicle and the L.A. County SUV.  

The impact of the crash tore the rear driver’s side tire off the undercover officer’s vehicle.  

Fortunately, no one was seriously injured during the incident.  

Chavez was arrested and is facing charges of assaulting a firefighter, assault with a deadly weapon and driving under the influence, authorities said.  

A 73-year-old suspected serial killer from Mississippi extradited to Ventura County earlier this month in connection with three strangulation murders nearly a half century ago pled not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday, officials announced.  

In February 2023, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Cold Case Unit began re-examining the deaths of the three women – Kimberly Carol Fritz, Velvet Ann Sanchez and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez – each of whom was killed in 1977, the Ventura County DA’s Office said.  

While the exact circumstances surrounding the women’s deaths were not disclosed by the DA, an article published in 1978 in the Utah publication The Daily Herald stated that the three women were prostitutes who were strangled with their own underwear.  

Sanchez was 31 when she was found dead in an Oxnard motel on Sept. 9, 1977, the Daily Herald reported; the 18-year-old Fritz was found in a motel room on May 29 of that year and Rodriguez, then 22, was found dead near a highway in Oxnard on Dec. 27, but the Herald reported that investigators believed she was also killed at a motel and dumped there. 

After decades and decades of investigation, detectives were eventually able to identify the suspect as Warren Luther Alexander, a resident of Diamondhead, Mississippi. 

Alexander was extradited to Southern California on Aug. 6 from Surry County, North Carolina, where he was awaiting prosecution for a 1992 cold case murder.  

The 73-year-old has been charged by the Ventura County District Attorney’s office with three counts of first-degree murder for the 1977 strangulations.  

He is scheduled to appear in Ventura County Superior Court again on Aug. 30 and is being held in the Ventura County jail without bail.  

Several bystanders watched in surprise as a man stuffed merchandise, including expensive sunglasses, into a bag and fled the Northridge Fashion Center.

Cellphone video of the incident shows the robber walking around a Sunglass Hut store while deciding which items to put in what appeared to be a trash bag.

A security guard arrived at the shop and briefly confronted the suspect but was not able to detain him. 

The suspect is then seen running from the store with his bag of goods still in hand.

At one point, the suspect even stops and points at the security guard giving chase but still has time to turn and run out of the mall.

He was wearing a light-colored hat, dark shirt and white pants.