Police arrest the passenger accused of killing a Culver City bus driver
Laurie Perez's report from Mar Vista led a heavy Saturday for CBS LA, ahead of a deadly strip mall shooting near CSU Northridge and the start of a record-breaking heat wave.
CBS LAStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 90,267 views a day, 30 times a normal first day on this channel (2,993).
Los Angeles police arrest passenger accused of fatally shooting Culver City bus driver
What happened after a Culver City bus driver was shot and killed in Mar Vista? By the next evening, Los Angeles police had arrested the passenger accused of the shooting. Laurie Perez reported the arrest for KCAL 9 News Evening, and CBS LA posted it as a short.
It came close to 90,000 views in under a day, where a new video here usually ends its first day with about 3,000. The comment section moved even faster. A short on this channel typically draws a comment or two on its first day; this one drew dozens.
Much of that conversation is condolences for the driver's family and friends. Several viewers ask the same question: why the suspect's face is blurred in the report. One commenter says they work near the stop where it happened, and that coworkers ride that bus. Another simply wants to know why it happened, which the report does not say.
It was not the only hard story the station carried. A shooting at a strip mall near CSU Northridge that left at least two people dead drew nearly as many viewers in its first hours. The day's third fast starter was the weather: the opening of a weeklong heat wave expected to bring record temperatures to Southern California.
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- Channel
- CBS LA
- Subscribers
- 1,160,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,862,577
- Channel views, pace per day
- 688,195 (on a normal day: 499,256)
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 88,613 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 90,267
The numbers
The arrest report drew far more viewers in its first day than this local station's videos usually do, on a day when two other reports also ran well ahead of normal.
