True-crime weekend Los Angeles: La Llorona edition

In Granada Hills, former "American Idol" contestant Alexis Lopez was held up at the IHOP, according to fun-with-names LAPD Officer "Billy Joe." Lopez stared down the armed robber and glimpsed into "his soul." Channel 2 tells us she's also about to release a new album of "recently recorded rock music." In South L.A. on Mother's Day, a sleeping driver plowed into a stand selling plastic-wrapped teddybears, killing two. After a typical L.A. weekend of drama and decadence, Mondays are made for reliably fertile viewing at Jill Leovy's strangely addictive Homicide Report (see this great post about the myth of black-brown race killings): A stabbing death at 8th and Werdin, a sheriff's deputy kills a guy in Compton, a girl stabbed in Calabasas, and cops kill someone in East L.A. and someone in El Segundo. Alive with death, the city starts another week of mournful spring nights: