{"id":50352,"date":"2025-07-09T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50352\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T03:13:10","slug":"da-declines-to-file-case-involving-deadly-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/50352\/","title":{"rendered":"DA Declines to File Case Involving Deadly Stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office declined Tuesday to file a case involving the stabbing death of a man during an argument in Griffith Park over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The District Attorney\u2019s Office cited \u201cinsufficient evidence\u201d against Royce Rainey.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded about 2:30 a.m. Saturday to a report of a possible stabbing near the 3200 block of Riverside Drive, where they found 48-year-old Richard Ware with stab wounds, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics pronounced Ware dead at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter gathering witness statements, officers detained 36-year-old Royce Rainey while conducting a search of the nearby area,\u201d according to an LAPD statement.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives believe Rainey and Ware got into an argument that escalated into a fight, resulting in Ware being stabbed, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He had remained behind bars since his arrest about 7 a.m. Saturday. There was no immediate word on whether he had been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office declined Tuesday to file a case involving the stabbing death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,6517,38026,38027,378,38028,2961,224,5337,7358],"class_list":{"0":"post-50352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-case","11":"tag-deadly","12":"tag-declines","13":"tag-file","14":"tag-involving","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-stabbing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114821097302082556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}