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9th Street and Fashion Ave. A 3:54 a.m. traffic collision occurred as a white westbound Toyota Tacoma struck a pedestrian in the roadway outside of a crosswalk. The Tacoma fled the scene and the pedestrian, Heaven Hooper, 49 succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.

2900 block of Gale Ave. At 12:32 a.m., though shots were fired, the shooter somehow managed to avoid the legal consequences of misguided actions, as well as his aim, as no injuries were reported.

400 block of Pacific Ave. At 5 a.m., a Metro car stabbing captured on video showed one man stabbing another, then exiting the car, fleeing in an unknown direction. A train operator called 911 after spotting the victim lying on the Metro station platform on Pacific Avenue. The victim, 72-year-old James Plummer, of South Gate was taken to a hospital, succumbing to his injuries on Monday. On Thursday morning, officers arrested 66-year-old Cary Odell Singletary near Pacific Avenue and First Street on suspicion of stabbing Plummer.

Detectives tracked the suspect’s movements from before he boarded the Metro at Willow Street Station. Detectives said they canvassed the area and found out that the man had left Long Beach Memorial Hospital shortly before getting on the train. They filed the search warrant to get his name and other identifying information from the hospital. Investigators do not believe Singletary and Plummer knew each other. Bail: $1 million.

7800 block of Garner St. Giving a whole new meaning to the term “lift” as in burglary, a resident noticed at 3:42 p.m., “a woman in a black Corolla hatchback got out of her car, entered a parked car in a driveway and stole what she could. The same day many other cars were hit by the same car and charged credit cards in Garden Grove. The scary part, the car had a sign of Lyft by the window. I would like to find the plate number to share it with Lyft and the police.” Hardly a new Lyft offering.

Harvey Way at Los Coyotes Diag. At 7:12 p.m., a group of 25 juveniles busied themselves “destroying property.” Some locals described it as but one development in a long duration destruction derby.

900 block of Rose Ave. A 4:12 p.m., non-life-threatening stab wound to the upper body meant a hospital stay for the male victim, flight for the assailant.

200 block of Marker St. At 2:09 a.m., shots fired, shell casings found, crime scene missing, injuries not reported.

Pacific Pl. and West Wardlow Rd. At 7:52 p.m., a southbound 2025 Subaru Crosstrek struck a pedestrian walking in the roadway, outside of a marked crosswalk. The pedestrian, Darryl Roundtree, 67, died at the scene. The male adult driver remained on scene and cooperated with the investigation.

6255 De Forest Ave, At 4:48 p.m., youngsters in search of hidden DeForest Park Easter eggs found a partially buried human skull instead. Authorities were notified, taping off the area for investigative purposes. Opinion was that the skull might have belonged to a very young person. Medical examiner staff went to the scene and determined Sunday night that they needed a forensic anthropology team to respond the next morning. On Monday morning, that team recovered a “skeletonized human skull and mandible” from the dirt path adjacent to East Osgood Street.

1800 block of Cedar Ave. At 10:56 a.m., a man with a non-life-threatening stab wound to the upper body was hospital-bound.

Seventh St. at the 405/605 Freeway. At 11 p.m., after a reported several PIT maneuvers and successful use of spike strips, a battered four door sedan drove unsteadily, then turned around and crashed into a CHP unit. The driver jumped out of his car and began fighting with a CHP officer, dropping an unknown object at mid-punch. Eight officers surrounded and hogtied the suspect in about 15 minutes. Traffic on the eastbound 405 and southbound 605 and traffic entering from Seventh Street came to a complete stop, a long line of completely stacked eastbound headlights extended blocks as far as was visible.

 Last year, an accident in the same spot caused gridlock as far north as eastbound Willow Street and even Carson Street near the stopped 605. This time, immediately after pitching the suspect into the backseat of a cruiser, at 11:15 p.m., an officer drove the suspect’s car off the main stem while others removed their patrol vehicles to relieve this gridlock, an unusually quick response at a crime scene that can often take hours to break down.

6600 block of Cherry Ave. At 8:45 p.m., a man shot in the upper body was transported to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. No suspect information available.

1700 block of Pacific Coast Hwy. At 5:03 p.m., an eastbound 2013 Triumph Motorcycle lost control and collided at a high rate of speed with a vehicle parked on the south curb. Transported to hospital, the motorcyclist succumbed to his injuries.