List of homicides in California

This is a list of notable homicides in California. This list includes notable homicides committed in the U.S. state of California that have a Wikipedia article on the killing, the killer, or the victim. It is divided into four subject areas as follows:

  1. Multiple homicides – homicides having multiple victims, including incidents involving spree killers, acts of terrorism, two mass homicides involving criminal acts causing airline crashes, and a mass suicide directed by a cult leader. The article includes sub-lists for homicides involving school shootings, familicides, and police shootouts.
  2. Serial killers – persons who murder three or more persons with the incidents taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them
  3. Single homicides – notable homicides involving a single fatality, including homicides involving celebrities as victims or perpetrators
  4. Bias homicides – includes attacks directed against Native Americans (a more complete list of those incidents is set forth in the California genocide article), Asian immigrants, members of a religious group, and individuals based on sexual orientation

Multiple homicides

Listed in chronological order

No. Incident Location Date Deaths Description Sources
1 Lexington murders Lexington 1883-03-11 2 Double murder, two of the perpetrators were hanged [1][2][3]
2 Los Angeles Times bombing Los Angeles 1910-10-1 21 Union member bombed the Los Angeles Times building [4]
3 Adele Ritchie Laguna Beach 1930-04-24 2 Prima donna of comic opera who shot and killed a set designer and then shot herself [5]
4 Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 Contra Costa County 1964-05-07 44 Pilot of airliner shot during flight causing plane to crash [6]
5 1965 Highway 101 sniper attack Orcutt 1965-04-25 4 16-year-old youth opened fire on cars traveling along the 101 freeway [7]
6 Tate–LaBianca murders Los Angeles 1969-08-08/10 8 Murders perpetrated by members of the Manson Family, victims included actress Sharon Tate [8][9][10][11]
7 William Ray Bonner Los Angeles 1973-04-22 7 Rampage shooting by former service station attendant [12][13]
8 1974 Los Angeles International Airport bombing Los Angeles 1974-08-06 3 Bombing by Yugoslavian immigrant in Pan Am's international terminal killed three and injured 36 [14]
9 Golden Dragon massacre San Francisco 1977-09-04 5 Gang-related shooting at Chinese restaurant [7]
10 Robert Alton Harris San Diego 1978-07-05 2 Murdered two teenagers eating cheeseburgers in a supermarket parking lot; executed in 1992, first person executed in California since 1967 [15][16]
10 Moscone–Milk assassinations San Francisco 1978-11-27 2 San Francisco Supervisor Dan White shot Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk [17]
11 Keddie murders Keddie 1981-04-11 4 Unsolved quadruple homicide of one woman and three children at the Keddie Resort [18][19]
12 Wonderland murders Laurel Canyon 1981-07-01 4 Unsolved murder of four persons at a drug house, also known as the "Laurel Canyon Murders" [10][20]
13 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre San Ysidro 1984-07-18 23 Mass shooting at McDonald's restaurant [21]
14 Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 San Luis Obispo County 1987-12-07 43 Plane crashed after being hijacked [22]
15 Richard Farley Sunnyvale 1988-02-16 7 Workplace shooting at ESL Incorporated [23][24]
16 1991 Sacramento hostage crisis Sacramento 1991-04-04 6 Hostage crisis at Good Guys store in Florin Mall, 40 hostages held at gunpoint [25]
17 Lynwood Drake Morro Bay/Paso Robles 1992-11-07 7 Spree killing at two homes and a card club [26]
18 101 California Street shooting San Francisco 1993-07-01 9 Mass shooting at offices of Petit & Martin law firm [7]
19 O. J. Simpson murder case Los Angeles 1994-06-12 2 Unsolved murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. O. J. Simpson tried and acquitted [10][7]
20 Heaven's Gate Rancho Santa Fe 1997-03-26 39 Mass suicide by cult members at direction of cult leader[27] [28]
21 Black Widow Murders Los Angeles 1999, 2005 2 Two elderly women convicted of murdering two vagrants, the first in 1999 and the second in 2005 [10]
22 Glenn Helzer Concord 2000 5 Former leader of the "Children of Thunder" cult murdered five people as part of an extortion plot [29][30]
23 2001 Nevada County shootings Nevada County 2001-01-10 3 Shooting spree by 40-year-old man with semi-automatic pistol [31]
24 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting Los Angeles 2002-07-04 3 Gunman opened fire at ticket counter of El Al, Israel's national airline [32]
25 2004 Jenner, California, double murder Jenner 2004-08-14 2 Young Midwestern couple shot as they slept on a Sonoma Coast beach [33]
26 2005 Glendale train crash Los Angeles 2005-01-26 11 Suicidal man parked on tracks and caused crash of Metrolink commuter train [34]
27 Goleta postal facility shootings Goleta 2006-01-30 8 Spree killing by former postal worker [35]
28 Murder of Jan Pawel and Quiana Jenkins Pietrzak Riverside County 2008-10-15 2 Married couple tortured, sexually assaulted and shot by four Marines [36]
29 SiPort shooting Santa Clara 2008-11-14 3 Former employee returned to workplace and shot the CEO and two other executives in the head [37][38][39]
30 Daniel Wozniak Los Alamitos 2010-05-21 2 Struggling actor murdered soldier to steal his combat pay and then murdered a friend of the soldier to make it appear the soldier killed her and then disappeared [40][41]
31 2011 Seal Beach shooting Seal Beach 2011-10-12 8 Mass shooting at a hair salon, deadliest mass shooting in Orange County history [7]
32 Southern California Edison shooting Irwindale 2011-12-16 3 Workplace shooting [42][43]
33 2012 Ingleside, San Francisco homicide San Francisco 2012-03-23 5 Murder of family of Chinese immigrants, sometimes called the "Lei family quintuple slayings" [44][45]
34 Murder of Ming Qu and Ying Wu Los Angeles 2012-04-11 2 Chinese graduate students at USC shot to death while sitting in their BMW near campus [46]
35 Murders of Claudia Maupin and Oliver Northup Davis 2013-04-14 2 Torture, mutilation and murder of elderly couple in their home, perpetrator a 15-year-old psychopath [47]
36 2015 San Bernardino attack San Bernardino 2015-12-02 16 Terrorist attack by Muslim couple on public health department Christmas party [48]
37 San Francisco UPS shooting San Francisco 2017-06-14 4 Workplace shooting at UPS facility [49]
38 Rancho Tehama shootings Rancho Tehama 2017-11-13 6 Shooting spree in which five were killed and 18 injured at 8 crime scenes [50]
39 Yountville shooting Yountville 2018-03-08 5 Murder-suicide shooting at Veterans Home of California [51]
40 Thousand Oaks shooting Thousand Oaks 2018-11-07 13 Mass shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill [52]
41 Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting Gilroy 2019-07-28 4 Mass shooting at garlic festival [53]
42 Orinda shooting Orinda 2019-10-31 5 Mass shooting during a house party [54]
43 2019 Fresno shooting Fresno 2019-11-17 4 Mass shooting at football watch party [55]
44 Aguanga shooting Aguanga 2020-09-07 7 Mass murder at residence used to grow illegal marijuana [56]
45 2021 Orange, California office shooting Orange 2021-03-31 4 Shooting at office building [57]
46 2021 San Jose shooting San Jose 2021-05-26 10 Mass shooting at transit rail yard [58]
47 2022 Sacramento shooting Sacramento 2022-04-03 6 Mass shooting by multiple shooters in downtown Sacramento [59]

School shootings

Listed in chronological order

No. Incident Location Date Deaths Description Sources
1 California State University, Fullerton massacre Fullerton 1976-07-12 7 School shooting perpetrated by university custodian [7][60][61]
2 Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego) San Diego 1979-01-29 2 16-year-old girl shot 11 persons, killing two [60]
3 Cleveland Elementary School shooting (Stockton) Stockton 1989-01-17 5 School shooting [7][60]
4 Lindhurst High School shooting Olivehurst 1992-05-01 4 School shooting perpetrated by former student [60]
5 San Diego State University shooting San Diego 1996-08-15 3 Graduate student shot and killed three professors at engineering building [7]
6 Costa Mesa school car attack Costa Mesa 1999-05-03 2 Man drove his Cadillac into preschool playground and opened fire, killing two and wounding five [62]
7 2001 Isla Vista killings Isla Vista 2001-02-23 5 Vehicular homicide and assault near UCSB campus, perpetrator was son of director Dan Attias [63][64]
8 Santana High School shooting Santee 2001-03-05 2 School shooting perpetrated by 15-year-old student [7][60]
9 2012 Oikos University shooting Oakland 2012-04-02 7 Mass shooting at Korean Christian college [7][60]
10 2013 Santa Monica shootings Santa Monica 2013-06-07 6 Spree shooting at Santa Monica College campus following domestic dispute and house fire [60]
11 2014 Isla Vista killings Isla Vista 2014-05-23 7 Perpetrator conducted vehicular homicide and murder with knives in Isla Vista (close to UCSB), killing six UCSB students and himself. Perpetrator was son of director Peter Rodger. [65]
12 2016 UCLA shooting Los Angeles 2016-06-01 3 Unsuccessful Ph.D. student shot his thesis adviser, his estranged wife, and himself [66][67]
13 2017 North Park Elementary School shooting San Bernardino 2017-04-10 3 Man shot his estranged wife at the school where she worked and a student standing behind her and then killed himself [68]
14 2019 Saugus High School shooting Santa Clarita 2019-11-14 3 Student age 16 shot five schoolmates, killed two, then killed himself [60]
15 Union City, California elementary school double murder Union City, California 2019-11-20 2 Boys ages 11 and 14 shot in school parking lot by two gang members [69][70]

Familicides

Listed in chronological order

No. Incident Location Date Deaths Description Sources
1 James Dunham Campbell 1896-05-26 6 Killed his wife, 3 members of her family and 2 household servants [71]
2 George Hassell Whittier 1917, 1926 13 Spree killer, killed his wife and three children in Whittier, then killed his second family in Texas in 1926 [72][73]
3 Ralph Works Pasadena 1941-08-08 2 Murder-suicide in which former professional baseball pitcher shot himself and his wife [74]
4 Barbecue murders Terra Linda 1975-06-21 2 Married couple murdered in their home by adopted daughter and her boyfriend who attempted to dispose of bodies by burning in a barbecue pit [7]
5 Judith Barsi Canoga Park 1988-07-25 3 Murder suicide in which father killed his 10-year-old actress-daughter and wife [75]
6 Ramon Salcido Sonoma/Cotati 1989-04-14 7 Spree killer of six family members and workplace supervisor [76][77]
7 Lyle and Erik Menendez Beverly Hills 1989-08-20 2 Shotgun murders of José and Mary Louise ("Kitty") Menendez by their sons [10][7]
8 Betty Broderick San Diego 1989-11-05 2 Convicted of murdering her ex-husband and second wife, later depicted in A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story [10]
9 Dana Ewell Fresno 1992-04-19 3 Ordered the killing of his father, mother and sister [78]
10 Marcus Wesson Fresno 2004-03-12 9 Father murdered his family [9][7]
11 Covina massacre Covina 2008-12-24 10 Christmas Eve shooting by family member wearing Santa suit [9][10][7]
12 Hart family murders Mendocino County 2018-03-26 8 Murder-suicide in which white lesbian couple murdered their six adopted black children and then killed themselves [79][80]

Police shootouts and killings

Listed in chronological order

No. Incident Location Date Deaths Description Sources
1 Walter H. Auble Los Angeles 1908-09-09 1 Police chief of Los Angeles shot and killed by a burglary suspect while trying to make an arrest [81]
2 September 1937 Folsom escape attempt Folsom 1937-09-19 5 Attempted prison escape in which the warden, two guards, and two prisoners were killed; five others involved in the attempt were executed [82][83]
3 The Onion Field Los Angeles 1963-03-09 1 Kidnapping and murder of LAPD officer, later a book by Joseph Wambaugh [10]
4 Murders of Theodore L. Newton Jr. and George F. Azrak Anza 1967-06-17 2 Two Border Patrol agents kidnapped and murdered by marijuana smugglers [84][85]
5 Marin County Civic Center attacks San Rafael 1970-08-07 4 Kidnapping of judge followed by shootout with police, led to manhunt for Angela Davis [86][87]
6 Newhall incident Valencia 1970-04-05 5 Shootout in which four California Highway Patrol officers were killed, deadliest day in California law enforcement history [88][89]
7 Symbionese Liberation Army shootout Los Angeles 1974-05-17 6 Members of the group shot or burned in South LA house during shootout with LAPD [90][91]
8 Norco shootout Norco 1980-05-09 3 Shootout between five heavily armed bank robbers and sheriff deputies, one officer and two perpetrators killed; eight other officers, a civilian, and two perpetrators injured [92]
9 North Hollywood shootout North Hollywood 1997-02-28 2 Shootout between police and bank robbers wearing body armor, both bank robbers killed [93]
10 Kevin Gaines Los Angeles 1997-03-18 1 Police officer who also worked security for Death Row Records and was living with Suge Knight's estranged wife was shot by an undercover LAPD detective [94]
11 Stevenson Ranch shootout Stevenson Ranch 2001-08-31 2 Shootout resulting in deaths of a convicted felon and a sheriff's deputy [95]
12 2009 shootings of Oakland police officers Oakland 2009-03-21 5 Wanted felon shot two officers during a traffic stop, then shot and killed two SWAT officers [96][97]
13 Christopher Dorner shootings and manhunt Southern California 2013-02 5 After being fired, former LAPD officer killed two civilians and two law enforcement, manhunt ended in shootout at cabin in Big Bear [98][99]
14 2013 shooting of Santa Cruz police officers Santa Cruz 2013-02-26 3 Two police officers shot and killed, perpetrator then killed in shootout with police [100]
15 Luis Bracamontes Sacramento 2014-10-24 2 Undocumented immigrant opened fire on sheriff's deputies, killing two; Donald Trump ran an ad blaming Democrats for the murders [101][102]
16 2020 boogaloo murders Oakland
Ben Lomond		 2020-05-29
2020-06-06		 2 Two ambush-style attacks occurred against security personnel and law enforcement officers in California. The attacks left two dead and injured three others. [103][104]
17 2023 Goshen shooting Goshen 2023-01-16 6 Execution-style killing of six persons, including a 10-month-old baby at a house where a search warrant had been executed one week earlier as part of a drug investigation [105]
18 2023 Monterey Park shooting Monterey Park 2023-01-21 12 Mass shooting at a dance studio following Lunar New Year celebration on nearby street [106]
19 2023 Half Moon Bay shootings Half Moon Bay 2023-01-23 7 Mass shooting/workplace violence at two farms [107]

Serial killers

Listed in chronological order by date of earliest homicide

No. Incident Location Date Deaths Description Sources
1 Earle Nelson California, Oregon + 1926–1927 22–29 Known as the "Gorilla Man", the first serial killer in USA to receive widespread media attention [108]
2 Wineville Chicken Coop murders, Gordon Stewart Northcott Wineville 1926–1928 3+ Series of abductions and murders committed by a 19-year-old farmer, his mother, and his nephew [10][109]
3 Bouncing Ball Killer Los Angeles 1959–1960 6–7+ Serial killer also known as the Rubber Ball Strangler [110][111][112][113][114][115]
4 Patrick Kearney Southern California 1962–1977 21–43 Serial killer and child molester, a list of men believed to be victims was found in his trunk [10][116]
5 Zodiac Killer San Francisco 1968–1969 5–37 Killed three couples and a cab driver and wrote 15 letter to local newspapers, including cryptograms and clues [8][117]
6 Rodney Alcala California 1968–1979 8+ Serial killer sometimes known as "The Dating Game Killer" because he won an episode of The Dating Game television show [10][61][118]
7 Samuel Little 19 states 1970–2005 60–93 Confessed to murdering 93 women, most prolific serial killer in U.S. history [9]
8 Juan Corona Sutter County 1971 25+ Mexican serial killer who was convicted of the murders of 25 migrant farm workers found buried in shallow graves in peach orchards along the Feather River in Sutter County [9][119]
9 Randy Kraft Southern California 1971–1983 16–67 Known as the "Scorecard Killer", raped and murdered at least 16 young men [8][9][120][10][61]
10 Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders North Bay 1972–1973 7+ Female hitchhikers found nude in rural areas of Sonoma and Santa Rosa Counties [8]
11 Zebra murders San Francisco 1973–1974 15–73+ Racially-motivated attacks by a group of four black serial killers [121]
12 Doodler San Francisco 1974–1975 6-16 Unidentified serial killer who sketched his male victims before having sex with and killing them [8]
13 Joseph James DeAngelo California 1974–1986 13 Serial killer and rapist [8][9]
14 William Suff Lake Elsinore 1974–1992 13+ Serial killer known as "The Riverside Prostitute Killer" and "The Lake Elsinore Killer" [122]
15 Gypsy Hill killings San Mateo County 1976 5+ Homicides of young women and girls by a suspected serial killer known in media as the "San Mateo Slasher" [123][124]
16 Steven David Catlin Bakersfield, Fresno 1976–1984 3 Convicted of murdering two wives and his adoptive mother [125]
17 Hillside Strangler Los Angeles 1977–1978 12 Serial killers later identified as cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. [9][10][20]
18 Roger Kibbe Sacramento 1977–1987 8+ Serial killer and rapist known as the "I-5 Strangler" [126]
19 Joseph Naso Northern California 1977–1994 6–10 Serial killer and rapist [127]
20 Richard Trenton Chase Sacramento 1977–1978 6 Serial killer, necrophile, and cannibal that murdered 6 men, women, and children at random in a month long killing spree [128]
21 Skid Row Stabber Los Angeles 1978–1979 12 Unsolved murders of homeless people [129]
22 Gerald and Charlene Gallego Sacramento 1978–1980 10 Serial killers who kidnapped and murder teenagers after keeping as sex slaves [130]
23 Joseph Edward Duncan California, Idaho 1978–2005 5–8 Convicted serial killer and child molester [131][132]
24 Terry Peder Rasmussen California, New Hampshire 1978–2002 6+ Serial killer sometimes known as "Bob Evans" and "The Chameleon Killer" [133]
25 Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris Southern California 1979 5 Known as the "Tool Box Killers", murdered and raped five teenage girls [134]
26 William Bonin Southern California 1979–1980 21–36+ Serial killer, pederast and sex offender who committed the rape, torture, and murder of a minimum of 21 young men and boys [8][9][10][61][135]
27 David Carpenter San Francisco 1979–1981 8–10+ Serial killer known for stalking and killing victims in state parks near San Francisco, also known as the Trailside Killer [136]
28 Doug Clark (serial killer) Los Angeles 1980 6+ Serial killer with accomplice Carol Bundy known as the "Sunset Strip Killers" [137]
28 David Mason Oakland 1980 5–6 Serial killer killed at least four elderly people; executed in 1993 [138][139]
30 Dorothea Puente Sacramento 1982–1988 9 Ran a boarding house and murdered elderly and mentally disabled boarders before cashing their Social Security checks [140]
31 Leonard Lake and Charles Ng Calaveras County 1983–1985 11-25 Ex-Marine who had a cabin that he described as a "dungeon" where he kidnapped, raped, and murdered women [9][136]
32 Speed Freak Killers San Joaquin County 1984–1999 4–19 Methamphetamine users convicted of four murders [141]
33 Grim Sleeper Los Angeles 1984–2007 10-25+ Serial killer who received nickname when he appeared to have taken a 14-year break from his crimes, from 1988 to 2002 [8][9][10][142]
34 Richard Ramirez Los Angeles, San Gabriel Valley 1984–1985 13 Serial killer known as the "Night Stalker" [8][9][136][10][61][143]
35 Michael Hughes (serial killer) California 1986–1993 7+ Former security guard who killed women living or working on the streets [9][120][144]
36 Joseph Danks Los Angeles 1986-1990 7 Murdered 6 homeless men in a month long killing spree, and strangled his cellmate after being convicted <ref"Man Gets Death Sentence for Killing Cellmate". Los Angeles Times. Apr 4, 1993.</ref>
37 Chester Turner Los Angeles 1987–1998 15+ Convicted of murdering 10 women; another man was earlier wrongfully convicted for his crimes [9][120]
38 Efren Saldivar Glendale 1988–1998 6–200+ Respiratory therapist at Adventist Health Glendale, killed patients by injecting a paralytic drug inducing cardiac and respiratory arrest, known as Angel of Death [10][145]
39 Keith Hunter Jesperson California, Oregon 1990–1995 8–185 Known as the "Happy Face Killer" because he drew smiley faces on his many letters to the media and authorities [146]
40 Michael Gargiulo Southern California 1993–2008 3–10 Serial killer known as The Hollywood Ripper [147]
41 Wayne Adam Ford California 1997–1998 4+ Long-haul driver murdered and dismembered three sex workers and a hitchhiker [9][148]
42 Pittsburg serial murders Pittsburg 1998–1999 5 Killings of one man and four women, some of the victims either engaged in prostitution or were drug addicts [149][150][151]
43 Cary Stayner Mariposa County 1999 4 Serial killer who killed women near Yosemite [9][152]

Single homicides

Listed in chronological order

No. Incident Location Date Description Sources
1 Virginia Rappe San Francisco 1921-09-09 Silent film actress, comedian Roscoe Arbuckle tried and acquitted of manslaughter [153]
2 William Desmond Taylor Los Angeles 1922-02-01 Director of 59 silent films shot in the back at his apartment, unsolved, subject of frenzy of sensationalist press coverage [154]
3 Murder of Marion Parker Los Angeles 1927-12-17 12-year-old girl abducted and murdered, billed as "the most horrible crime of the 1920s" by the Los Angeles Times [155][156]
4 Brooke Hart San Jose 1933-11-09 Son of department store owner kidnapped and murdered, perpetrators then lynched [157][158]
5 Sleepy Lagoon murder Commerce 1942-08-02 Murder of José Gallardo Díaz, who was discovered unconscious and dying near a swimming hole [10][159]
6 Barbara Graham Burbank 1943-03-09 Murdered widow Mabel Monohan in home burglary; Graham later depicted in I Want to Live! [10][7][160]
7 Black Dahlia Los Angeles 1947-01-14 Unsolved murder and mutilation of 22-year-old woman [10][153][161]
8 Bugsy Siegel Beverly Hills 1947-06-20 Mobster murdered in his Beverly Hills home, shot through window with .30 caliber military M1 carbine [10][162]
9 Murder of Johnny Stompanato Beverly Hills 1958-04-04 Murder of Lana Turner's boyfriend by Turner's 14-year-old daughter Cheryl Crane [10][7][153][163]
10 Elizabeth Ann Duncan Ventura 1958 Woman hired hitman to kill her daughter-in-law; last woman executed in California [10][164]
11 Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer Mission Hills 1959-01-21 Former child star shot and killed trying to collect a $50 debt [165][166]
12 Karyn Kupcinet West Hollywood 1963-11-28 Actress murdered six days after assassination of President Kennedy, prompting John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories [167]
13 Sam Cooke South Central Los Angeles 1964-12-11 R&B singer shot and killed by motel manager [10][7]
14 Murder of Cheri Jo Bates Riverside 1966-10-30 18-year-old college freshman stabbed and slashed to death on grounds of Riverside City College [168]
15 Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy Los Angeles 1968-06-05 Assassination at the Ambassador Hotel by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan [10]
16 Ramon Novarro Laurel Canyon 1968-10-30 Actor murdered by brothers hired for sexual services [10][7]
17 Killing of Meredith Hunter Alameda County 1969-10-24 Killed by members of Hells Angels during Altamont Free Concert by The Rolling Stones [169]
18 Marcus Foster Oakland 1973-11-06 Superintendent of Oakland school district assassinated by the Symbionese Liberation Army [170]
19 Murder of Arlis Perry Stanford 1974-10-12 Newlywed murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church, solved 40 years later with DNA evidence [171]
20 Murder of Betty Van Patter San Francisco 1974-12-13 Bookkeeper for Black Panther Party was beaten to death, unsolved, she had reportedly threatened to make public her discovery that the party doctored its books [172]
21 Sal Mineo West Hollywood 1976-02-12 Actor stabbed in the heart by a mugger [10][7][165]
22 Danny Lockin Anaheim 1977-08-21 Actor stabbed over 100 times by man he met in a gay bar [173][174]
23 Murder of Mary Quigley Santa Clara 1977-09-10 High school senior attended a beer party and was discovered the next day hanging from a chain-link fence in a park near the site of the party, case solved 30 years later with DNA evidence [175]
24 Glen Stewart Godwin Palm Springs 1980 Murdered drug dealer Kim LeValley, stabbing him 26 times, later escaped from prison and was on FBI's 10 most wanted list [176]
25 Murder of Suzanne Bombardier Antioch 1980-06-22 14-year-old honor roll student raped and murdered by a convicted sex offender and dumped in the San Joaquin River [177][178]
26 Dorothy Stratten Los Angeles 1980-08-14 Playboy Playmate and actress murdered by her estranged husband and manager Paul Snider [10][7][20]
27 Death of Susan Louise Jordan Riverside 1980-10-28 15-year-old girl abducted and dragged to an orange grove where she was raped and strangled [179]
28 Dominique Dunne Los Angeles 1982-11-04 Actress murdered by ex-boyfriend [10][165]
29 Killing of Marvin Gaye Los Angeles 1984-04-01 Shot and killed in an altercation with his father [10][7]
30 Killing of Roberta 'Bibi' Lee Oakland 1984-11-04 UC Berkeley student killed by her boyfriend [180]
31 Herb Wallerstein Los Angeles 1985-09-27 Television director and producer was killed with a baseball bat by his Salvadoran housekeeper, she was found not guilty in light of testimony of physical abuse by Wallerstein [181]
32 Murder of Michele Avila Los Angeles 1985-10-01 Murder of 17-year-old girl by her former best friends and rivals [182][183]
33 Murder of Sherri Rasmussen Van Nuys 1986-02-24 Woman beaten and shot by female LAPD officer [184][185]
34 Death of Dag Drollet Los Angeles 1987-05-16 Shooting of Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend by her brother Christian Brando, who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter [10][186]
35 Rebecca Schaeffer Los Angeles 1989-07-18 Murder of actress by 19-year-old obsessed fan/stalker Robert John Bardo [10][20][187]
36 Huey P. Newton Oakland 1989-08-22 Murdered on the streets of Oakland [7][188]
37 William Arnold Newton West Hollywood 1990-10-29 Gay pornographic actor (stage name Billy London) murdered and placed in dumpster with head and feet in plastic bags [189]
38 Killing of Latasha Harlins South Central Los Angeles 1991-03-16 Fatal shooting of 15-year-old African-American girl by Korean-American convenience store owner [10]
39 Murder of Lea Mek El Monte 1993-12-03 Cambodian refugee and gang member killed in a gang shooting in a pool hall, incident triggered a chain reaction of gang violence [190]
40 Murder of Polly Klaas Petaluma 1993-10-01 12-year-old kidnapped during a slumber party and later strangled by Richard Allen Davis [191]
41 Sara Kruzan Riverside 1994-03-09 Sexually trafficked at age 16, she shot and killed the surrogate father who was trafficking her, later became an anti-trafficking activist [192][193]
42 Murder of Stephanie Kuhen Los Angeles 1995-09-17 Three-year-old girl killed by gang gunfire; President Bill Clinton condemned the incident and promised funding to fight gangs [194]
43 Haing S. Ngor Los Angeles 1996-02-25 Academy Award winning actor murdered in robbery outside his house [10][7][195][196]
44 Murder of Ennis Cosby Los Angeles 1997-01-16 Son of Bill Cosby shot in the head in robbery attempt at the Mulholland exit to the 405 freeway [7][197]
45 Murder of the Notorious B.I.G. Los Angeles 1997-03-09 Murder of rapper in drive-by shooting [198]
46 Phil Hartman Encino 1998-05-27 Actor/comedian shot by his wife as he slept [10][7][199]
47 Murder of Michelle O'Keefe Palmdale 2000-02-22 18-year-old aspiring actress murdered on way home from shooting a Kid Rock video, featured on America's Most Wanted and Dateline NBC [200][201]
48 Bonny Lee Bakley Los Angeles 2001-05-04 Wife of actor Robert Blake shot and killed in parked car at restaurant, Blake was tried and found not guilty [10][7][202]
49 Murder of Samantha Runnion Stanton 2002-07-15 Five-year-old girl abducted from her home and murdered [203][204]
50 Murder of Laci Peterson Modesto 2002-12-24 Murder of pregnant woman by her husband, Scott Peterson [136][7]
51 Murder of Lana Clarkson Alhambra 2003-02-03 Murder of actress by record producer Phil Spector [10][7][165]
52 Murder of Yetunde Price Compton 2003-09-14 Half-sister and personal assistant to Venus and Serena Williams killed in gang shooting in Compton [205][206]
53 Tara Correa-McMullen Inglewood 2005-10-21 Actress who played gang member Graciela on TV series Judging Amy shot in front of an apartment complex [207][208]
54 Murder of Chauncey Bailey Oakland 2007-08-02 Journalist shot by member of a crime syndicate he was investigating for a story [209]
55 Murder of Jamiel Shaw II Los Angeles 2008-03-02 17-year-old high school player shot by two Hispanic men while returning home from Beverly Center [210]
56 Murder of Sandra Cantu Tracy 2009-03-27 Former Sunday school teacher kidnapped, raped, and murdered eight-year-old girl [211]
57 Death of Michael Jackson Los Angeles 2009-06-25 Physician Conrad Murray found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for improperly administering the anesthetic drug propofol [212]
58 Ronni Chasen Beverly Hills 2010-11-16 Hollywood publicist shot and killed while driving home as part of a random robbery [10][7][213]
59 Murder of Jeff Hall Riverside 2011-05-01 Leader of neo-Nazis shot to death by his 10-year-old son [214]
60 Murder of Michelle Le Hayward 2011-05-27 Nursing student murdered by a woman who believed Le had an affair with her boyfriend [215][216]
61 Death of Elisa Lam Los Angeles 2013-02-19 Body recovered from a water tank after a stay at the Cecil Hotel, later the subject of the Netflix series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel [10][217]
62 Murder of Gabriel Fernandez Palmdale 2013-05-24 Eight-year-old boy beaten to death by mother and her boyfriend, long history of abuse overlooked by county child protective services, depicted in the Netflix series, The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez [218][219]
63 Suge Knight Compton 2015-01-29 Convicted of voluntary manslaughter for crashing car into and killing Terry Carter and injuring a second man [10][220]
64 Murder of Madyson Middleton Santa Cruz 2015-07-25 8-year-old girl lured into another apartment where she was strangled and placed in a dumpster by a 15-year-old boy [221]
65 Nipsey Hussle Los Angeles 2019-03-31 Rapper shot at least 10 times in parking lot of a clothing store, two others wounded [222]
66 Murder of Brianna Kupfer Los Angeles 2022-01-13 24-year-old University of California, Los Angeles student stabbed and murdered by a 31-year-old man with an extensive criminal record. [223][224]
67 2022 Laguna Woods shooting Laguna Woods 2022-05-15 Mass shooting at Geneva Presbyterian Church, five injured, one killed [225][226]

Bias homicides

Listed in chronological order. NOTE: A more complete list of killings of indigenous peoples of California during the California Indian Wars is presented in the article on California genocide.

No. Incident Location Date Deaths Description Sources
1 Sacramento River massacre Upper Sacramento Valley 1846-04-05 120–700 Mass shooting of Wintu people on banks of Sacramento River, perpetrated by soldiers led by John C. Frémont [227][228]
2 Sutter Buttes massacre Sutter Buttes 1846-06 Murder of California Indians by militarized expeditionary band led by John C. Frémont, estimated Native American deaths range from several hundred to several thousand
3 Bridge Gulch massacre Trinity County 1852 150 Massacre of Wintu people in retaliation for killing of Col. John Anderson [227]
4 Yontoket massacre Yontocket 1853 400–500 Massacre of Tolowa people in northwestern California [227]
5 Mendocino War Mendocino County 1859–1860 283+ White settlers known as the "Eel River Rangers" killed at least 283 Indian men [227]
6 1860 Wiyot massacre Humboldt County 1860 80–250 Massacre of Wiyot people by white settlers [227]
7 Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 Los Angeles 1871-10-24 19 Racial massacre targeting Chinese immigrants [10][229]
8 San Francisco riot of 1877 San Francisco 1877-07-23/25 4 Three-day pogrom against Chinese immigrants [230]
9 Trout Creek Outrage Truckee 1876-06-17/18 1 Anti-Chinese violence in which cabins housing Chinese immigrants were set on fire and shot fired as they fled, killing one and wounding another [231]
10 Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting Granada Hills, Los Angeles 1999-08-10 1 White supremacist opened fire with an Uzi at the North Valley Jewish Community Center, killing one and injuring four [232]
11 Murder of Gwen Araujo Newark 2002-10-04 1 Teenager beaten and murdered by four men with whom she had been sexually intimate after discovering she was transgender [233]
12 Murder of Larry King Oxnard 2008-02-14 1 15-year-old student shot twice by fellow student, a gay-bias crime, later the subject of the HBO documentary Valentine Road [234]
13 2017 Fresno shootings Fresno 2017-04-13/18 4 Shooting spree aimed at whites by alleged black supremacist [235]
14 Killing of Anthony Avalos Lancaster 2018-06-21 1 Mother and her boyfriend beat to death her 10-year-old son, allegedly due to belief that he was gay [236][237]
15 Poway synagogue shooting Poway 2019-04-27 1 Shooting at Chabad center during Passover holiday, three injured [238]
16 Killing of Vicha Ratanapakdee San Francisco 2021-01-28 1 84-year-old Thai American killed by being pushed to the ground during wave of anti-Asian violence during COVID-19 pandemic [239]

See also

Further reading

  • "Forgotten California Murders 1915 to 1918", David Alexander Kulczyk, 2021
  • "Murderers In California: The Unforgettable True Stories of Compulsive Serial Killers on the West Coast", Brenda Brown, Ryan Becker, 2020
  • "Murder in California: Serial Killers and Unsolved Murders", Marques Vickers, 2019

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