{"id":73616,"date":"2016-09-12T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=73616"},"modified":"2016-09-22T08:53:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T15:53:04","slug":"man-beaten-to-death-in-palmdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/09\/12\/man-beaten-to-death-in-palmdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Man beaten to death in Palmdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_73619\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73619\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-73619 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Palmdale-beating-death-9.10.16-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sheriff's deputies were called to the 3600 block of East Avenue R-12 at 7:53 p.m. Saturday. [Photo by LUIS MEZA]\" width=\"624\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Palmdale-beating-death-9.10.16-1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Palmdale-beating-death-9.10.16-1-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff&#8217;s deputies were called to the 3700 block of East Avenue R-12 in Palmdale at<br \/> 7:53 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. [Photo by LUIS MEZA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE &#8211; A 34-year-old man who got into a fist fight during a street basketball game in Palmdale Saturday night died of his injuries, and two men were detained in connection with his beating death, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Orlando Grigsby<\/strong> of Palmdale was pronounced dead at 8:35 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, coroner\u2019s Assistant Chief Ed Winter said Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>His death was the result of an argument among a group of men gathered for a basketball game that escalated into a physical confrontation, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_73618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73618\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73618\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Palmdale-beating-death-9.10.16-2.jpg\" alt=\"[LUIS MEZA]\" width=\"288\" height=\"219\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[LUIS MEZA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\u201cDetectives learned that the victim was congregating with other males in the 3700 block of E. Avenue R12 Saturday night when an argument ensued. The argument escalated to a physical confrontation between the victim and at least one other male,\u201d according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/local.nixle.com\/alert\/5722512\/\" target=\"_blank\">news release from the Sheriff\u2019s Information Bureau<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe injured victim was able to stagger a few houses away before he collapsed. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he later died from blunt force trauma,\u201d the news release states.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s deputies were called to the scene around 7:53 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo possible male suspects have been detained in connection to the beating death, however no arrests have been made at this time,\u201d the news release states. \u201cThe investigation is still active and ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department&#8217;s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. To remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8211; A 34-year-old man who got into a fist fight during a street basketball game in Palmdale Saturday night died of his injuries, and two men were detained in connection with his beating death, authorities said. Michael Orlando Grigsby of Palmdale was pronounced dead at 8:35 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, coroner\u2019s Assistant Chief Ed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}