Culver City resumed CityBus service today following a weekend suspension\u00a0\u00a0in response to the fatal shooting of a bus operator.<\/p>\n
The driver was shot and killed around 5:15 p.m. Thursday near Centinela Avenue and Washington Boulevard in Mar Vista by an intoxicated passenger in an apparent altercation over a wrong turn, according to police.<\/p>\n
“We have lost a deeply valued member of our City family to a senseless act of violence,” said Mayor Freddy Puza. “We are grieving the loss of someone who dedicated their time and talents to serving Culver City and who made a meaningful difference through that service every day.” <\/p>\n
The Gang and Narcotics Division FBI Task Force took 55-year-old Jose Zayas into custody Friday without incident in the 3900 block of Motor Avenue on suspicion of murder, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. \u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Police said the case is expected to be presented to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office early this week for consideration of formal charges.<\/p>\n
According to police, Robbery-Homicide Division West Bureau Section detectives initially took the lead in the investigation and identified Zayas as the shooting suspect.<\/p>\n
His bail was set at $3 million.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The victim has not yet been identified. Police said responding officers located a man in his 40s at the scene, who sustained a gunshot wound and was taken to a hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n
The city planned to provide crisis support services to its staff following the shooting.<\/p>\n
“When services do resume, please be kind to our operators and transit team as they navigate this unimaginable tragedy,” the city said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Culver City resumed CityBus service today following a weekend suspension\u00a0\u00a0in response to the fatal shooting of a bus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10019,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-485794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-culver-city","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\/485794","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=485794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}