Recently unveiled body camera and surveillance videos capture the intense moments when a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was stabbed mere seconds after responding to a report of an armed individual. In swift response, deputies discharged their firearms, resulting in the suspect’s death.

On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department made public the body camera and surveillance footage from the incident on June 20. This confrontation took place in a parking lot in Lancaster and involved a deputy who was injured and 23-year-old Robert Castro, who sustained fatal injuries. Castro succumbed to the gunshots following the encounter.

The chain of events unfolded when a 911 call alerted the authorities to a man brandishing multiple knives and threatening public safety.

“Hey, I just want to make a report of a guy with some knives … swinging them in public,” the concerned caller informed the dispatcher, highlighting the imminent danger.

The caller said Castro appeared to be “fighting with someone” while carrying a large knife and expressed concern after seeing him look toward a woman walking to a nearby bus stop.

Surveillance video shows deputies arriving with emergency lights activated as Castro walked across the parking lot while still armed.

According to the sheriff’s department, Castro suddenly changed direction before the first deputy’s patrol vehicle had come to a stop, rushed toward the deputy, pulled a knife and stabbed him.

The wounded deputy then drew his service weapon and opened fire.

The deputy activated his body camera after firing his weapon, but the camera’s pre-event recording feature captured the 60 seconds leading up to the stabbing without audio.

A second deputy’s body camera captured him arriving as the first deputy fired his weapon.

The video shows Castro on the ground as the deputy checked on his wounded colleague. When Castro moved one of his hands, the deputy repeatedly yelled, “Stop reaching,” before opening fire again.

Deputies rendered medical aid to Castro until Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel arrived. Castro was transported to a hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Authorities said Castro was armed with three knives, including the one investigators say he used to stab the deputy.

The wounded deputy was hospitalized for treatment. No other deputies or civilians were injured.

The California Department of Justice is investigating the shooting as required under state law for officer-involved fatalities.

The sheriff’s department said it released the video before the investigation was complete “in the interest of transparency with the community we serve.”

Lonnie Bunch III, serving as the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who has emphasized that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are crucial for excellence in museum operations, has accumulated more than $4.4 million from 2020 to 2024 in terms of base salary and additional benefits, according to a review by Fox News Digital.

Although the Smithsonian channels its executive pay through private trust revenues to adhere to federal salary restrictions, such a substantial compensation package could spark new discussions, particularly considering that federal taxpayers still cover about 60% of the institution’s total budget.

During his leadership, Bunch has been a strong advocate for a transformative change in the cultural influence of the institution. In a 2019 interview with Smithsonian Magazine, he expressed his vision of embedding diversity and inclusion so seamlessly into the Smithsonian culture that it almost ceases to be a topic of discussion.

Bunch remarked, “We call ourselves the Great Convener, but we’re truly a great legitimizer. I want the Smithsonian to lend legitimacy to significant issues, be it the 1619 or climate change,” referring to the contentious 1619 Project, which has faced criticism from scholars for its “egregious errors.”

“We assist people in contemplating what matters, what should be debated, and what ought to be embraced,” he added.

“Everybody that thought about the 1619 Project, whether they liked it or disagreed with it, saw that the Smithsonian had fingerprints on it. And that to me was a great victory,” he added.

As secretary, Bunch reports to the organization’s board of regents and oversees the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, 21 libraries, the National Zoo and several research centers. Within the organization, the departments of the deputy secretary, chief operating officer and external affairs report to him.

While Bunch’s current salary is not public yet, the Smithsonian Institution’s 990 tax forms from 2020 to 2024 show that he has raked in millions of dollars, including a salary of $915,469 with $74,090 in added benefits in 2024.

Other years range from $726,156 to $861,379 for his salary and up to $68,391 in added benefits.

In addition to the interview, he co-wrote a policy framework resource titled “Excellence in DEAI,” an acronym for diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion, which was written for the American Alliance of Museums. 

Bunch further elaborated on his views on diversity in this 17-page document, which says that museums should “embed responsibility and accountability for implementing DEAI policies and processes into operations, job descriptions, and performance reviews at all levels of the institution, from the board of directors, c-level executives, and senior leaders to middle managers, junior staff, and volunteers.”

“DEAI is integral to excellence in museum practice. FULL STOP,” Bunch wrote.

“Amid social, political and cultural polarization and clear structural racism and other forms of oppression in the United States and around the world, DEAI must be at the center of how we understand and practice excellence in our institutions,” he added.

Bunch’s comments, along with statements from other Smithsonian leadership members, have prompted scrutiny from the Trump administration.

In a report titled “Saving America’s Story,” the administration raised concerns that the organization had taken on a clear political bent.

“Confirmed in the words of museum leadership, this ideological capture has moved the museum’s mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism that seeks to transform our country,” the report reads.

For his part, Bunch has claimed that he sees himself as an apolitical actor without an agenda despite pushing for DEAI.

“What the country needs are places that are nonpartisan and safe, where people can grapple with what’s going on around them,” Bunch told Smithsonian Magazine.

The Smithsonian, which was established by Congress in 1846 as an independent federal trust, depends heavily on taxpayer dollars.

“Financially, the institution depends on the federal government for approximately two-thirds of its funding,” the organization stated in its 2025 management report.

Bunch did not immediately respond to requests for comment on whether he believes his political leanings are at odds with the Smithsonian’s overall purpose or whether federal funding should prevent the organization’s employees from furthering a stated agenda.

In a tragic turn of events in the Bronx, a mother and grandmother are facing serious legal consequences, charged with allegedly causing the death of a 16-year-old autistic boy through starvation.

The young victim, identified as Adonis Jarvis, was declared deceased at a Bronx hospital on March 19.

Police responded to the hospital but soon discovered that Adonis showed signs of severe malnutrition. The Medical Examiner concluded his demise was a result of homicide.

Subsequently, on Thursday, authorities detained his mother, Geneva Jarvis, aged 36, and his grandmother, Denise Jarvis, aged 62, both facing murder charges.

The autopsy report starkly highlighted that Adonis had been starved to death. Disturbingly, sources disclosed that he weighed a mere 60 pounds at his time of passing.

It also appears that the teen’s twin brother was hospitalized for starvation but survived. Both children were described by law enforcement as nonverbal.

Police say they both exhibited signs of chronic neglect, starvation and dehydration upon arrival at the hospital and they had sores on their legs and all over their bodies.

The family lives in a third-floor walkup on East 147th Street.

The building superintendent told Eyewitness News that their apartment was filthy and uninhabitable.

“It’s filled with garbage and clothes all over the place, I told her I wanted to go in the apartment to fix it, she kept saying ‘OK tomorrow’ and she never let us in,” the super said.

Other neighbors said they never saw any red flags, but pointed out that the family kept to themselves.

Both women were arraigned on Thursday afternoon and were held without bail.

Prince Harry has yet to introduce his children to Balmoral, the cherished royal estate nestled in Aberdeenshire, which he has fondly referred to as ‘simply paradise.’

However, he has whisked them away to a secluded Scottish island, owned by a high-profile hedge fund tycoon, in a move shrouded in privacy.

According to The Daily Mail, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, along with their young ones, Prince Archie, seven, and Princess Lilibet, five, enjoyed a stay on Tanera Mor earlier this month.

This exclusive island is rumored to have provided the eerie inspiration for the 1973 cult classic film, The Wicker Man, featuring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, and Britt Ekland.

It is believed that Harry had previously visited Tanera Mor, acquired in 2017 for £1.7 million by billionaire Ian Wace, the co-founder of the hedge fund behemoth Marshall Wace.

When Wace, 63, bought Tanera Mor, the largest of the Summer Isles, it had a population of just five, who were outnumbered by crofters’ cottages in various stages of dereliction. 

But the 800-acre island has since been transformed by Wace, who has poured £100million into it, planting 100,000 trees, restoring a dozen properties and laying three miles of roads.

He has also revived skills such as beekeeping. But perhaps the aspect which would have most appealed to Harry is that, by last year, more than half of the 1,000 guests Tanera had hosted were from the Taigh Mor Foundation.

It’s a charity which strives to bolster the wellbeing of those serving in the armed forces or emergency services. 

During their time on the isle, they restore buildings, harvest seaweed, fish for mackerel or work in the kitchens or gardens.

A noted philanthropist, Wace has been friendly with Harry and his brother, Prince William, for years. 

Wace’s then wife, former model Saffron Aldridge, 57, bonded with Meghan, 44, after the US actress moved to Britain to live with Harry. 

In 2019, the year after Meghan married the prince, Saffron and Wace joined the couple for a Cirque du Soleil performance at the Royal Albert Hall.

Meghan, it was reported at the time, appreciated that Saffron was ‘a straight talker’. The women’s mutual interest in fashion also helped. 

Wace and Saffron split in 2023 and have since divorced but remain friends.

The Sussexes are believed to have travelled to Scotland from Northamptonshire, where they stayed with Earl and Countess Spencer at his ancestral home, Althorp. 

While there, they laid flowers at the grave of Harry’s mother, Diana. During the family’s trip to Britain, they also had tea with Harry’s father, King Charles, and stepmother, Queen Camilla, at Highgrove in Gloucestershire.

A spokesman for the Duke and Duchess said: ‘This is not something we would comment on.’

A spokesman for Wace also declined to comment.