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Wanting to give others the same shot at closure, Mills offered free portrait services on a neighborhood Facebook group called Beautiful Altadena.

Police allege that he killed at least a dozen neighborhood cats, and that carcasses were found at his home.

“I don’t really see it as an accolade, but I do see it as a necessity for people to know that car culture runs through every neighborhood,” he says.

In the immediate aftermath of January’s Palisades fires, which wiped out more than 6,800 structures and much of the neighborhood’s iconic high school, there was doubt about whether the baseball program would even survive.

“If you go out in certain neighborhoods, everyone’s going to look the same. But there’s no such uniform at Simon Says,” she says.