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—Downtown: Esotouric suspects Grand Central Market's 48-year-old Chiles Secos stand has shuttered operations, despite decades of being in business and write-ups touting its family-owned Mexican goods such as mole and pipian paste, spices, and dried chiles. An anonymous source confirmed the closure or imminent closure with L.A. TACO and also counted up to eight future vacancies by the end of May. [Esotouric/Instagram]
—Beverlywood: A man was taken to the hospital in critical condition after being shot twice in the Beverlywood neighborhood on Easter morning around 2:30 am. As the party ended and guests dispersed, a fight broke out on the Robertson Boulevard sidewalk, at which point the man was shot. Four people were detained and released at the scene, while a suspect vehicle was said to have fled the scene traveling north. [KTLA]
—Hollywood: 27-year-old Alex Garcia was arrested at Gower and Santa Monica Boulevard on Saturday under suspicion of stabbing another man on the Metro's Red Line the previous Thursday. The victim, who remains, hospitalized, entered the train and is said to have become involved in a verbal argument with Garcia, who was already on the train. Garcia is accused of slashing the man across the abdomen and causing severe injury to the victim. Garcia is being held on $1,000,000 bail and has been booked for attempted murder. [NBC]
—A local couple who claims they're in the "top" percentage of earned incomes laughs at the notion they'll ever be able to afford a home in Los Angeles, saying, "With housing costs being what they are, just the idea of us ever owning a home is absolutely, like it’s funny. It’s like, we might as well own a spaceship." [Fortune]