{"id":437498,"date":"2026-08-19T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437498\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:06:08","slug":"man-arrested-in-connection-with-deaths-of-3-men-in-hollywood-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437498\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in connection with deaths of 3 men in Hollywood \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested earlier this week in connection with the deaths of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/3-men-found-dead-in-apartment-in-hollywood\/3923164\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">three men in Hollywood<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>The three victims were found dead in a shooting the night of July 24 at a Hollywood apartment, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were identified as Jeremiah Badeker, Jack Cartegena, and Michael Bogacz, all residents of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the 1900 block of Wilcox Avenue after a family member called for a welfare check at an apartment unit around 11:30 p.m. When they arrived, officers found three men dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the LAPD, an altercation had taken place inside the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, identified as 57-year-old Patrick Kevin Spurlock, ordered the victims at gunpoint to get on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>While the men lay on the ground, Spurlock shot them numerous times. The victims were discovered several days later and were pronounced deceased, LAPD said. <\/p>\n<p>Spurlock was arrested on Aug. 14 at the 6600 block of Franklin Avenue and booked him on three counts of murder without bail.<\/p>\n<p>The LAPD said that one of the victims&#8217; sisters was in Las Vegas and received a text from an unknown number that her brother was dead.<\/p>\n<p>The victim&#8217;s sister called into a police station, and a welfare check was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>A detective at the scene told NBCLA all three men were shot. No weapons were found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The three men were not believed to be tenants of the apartment. Police do not believe the incident was gang-related.<\/p>\n<p>The case will be presented to the LA District Attorney&#8217;s Office for prosecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested earlier this week in connection with the deaths of three men in Hollywood last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1743,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-437498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-hollywood","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}