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Marine Suspected in Slaying Is Fatally Shot After Pursuit
A 29-year-old Marine was fatally shot early Sunday after police said he killed a transgender prostitute in Hollywood, led officers on a high-speed chase and then pointed a gun at them in a parking lot near the LAPD Northeast Division station in Atwater Village.
LOS ANGELES
Marine Suspected in Slaying Is Fatally Shot After Pursuit
By Andrew Blankstein, Times Staff Writer
A 29-year-old Marine was fatally shot early Sunday after police said he killed a transgender prostitute in Hollywood, led officers on a high-speed chase and then pointed a gun at them in a parking lot near the LAPD Northeast Division station in Atwater Village.
Police did not identify the Marine, who was from Reseda and was a military policeman at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms. Investigators said it was not clear whether he was killed by officers or himself.
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"It's a sad situation," said Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell. "Here's a guy who had his life ahead of him and in a very short period of time threw it all away."
The Marine had apparently picked up the unidentified prostitute, whom he believed was a female, in Hollywood, police sources said.
After an apparent dispute, he allegedly shot the victim in the head and dumped the body in a cul-de-sac off of Melrose Avenue. Police pursued him on surface streets and the freeway through Hollywood after a witness described his vehicle.
During the chase the Marine called his mother and sister and said he had shot a man who had tried to rob and carjack him, police said. The chase ended at a parking lot several blocks from the police station at San Fernando Road and Fletcher Drive.
LAPD spokeswoman Sara Faden said police first shot beanbag rounds at the Marine and then fired bullets at him after he pointed a handgun at them.
Marine Suspected in Slaying Is Fatally Shot After Pursuit
By Andrew Blankstein, Times Staff Writer
A 29-year-old Marine was fatally shot early Sunday after police said he killed a transgender prostitute in Hollywood, led officers on a high-speed chase and then pointed a gun at them in a parking lot near the LAPD Northeast Division station in Atwater Village.
Police did not identify the Marine, who was from Reseda and was a military policeman at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms. Investigators said it was not clear whether he was killed by officers or himself.
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"It's a sad situation," said Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell. "Here's a guy who had his life ahead of him and in a very short period of time threw it all away."
The Marine had apparently picked up the unidentified prostitute, whom he believed was a female, in Hollywood, police sources said.
After an apparent dispute, he allegedly shot the victim in the head and dumped the body in a cul-de-sac off of Melrose Avenue. Police pursued him on surface streets and the freeway through Hollywood after a witness described his vehicle.
During the chase the Marine called his mother and sister and said he had shot a man who had tried to rob and carjack him, police said. The chase ended at a parking lot several blocks from the police station at San Fernando Road and Fletcher Drive.
LAPD spokeswoman Sara Faden said police first shot beanbag rounds at the Marine and then fired bullets at him after he pointed a handgun at them.
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Police: Officers Tried To Subdue Man With Beanbag Rounds
POSTED: 7:55 am PST December 27, 2004
LOS ANGELES -- Authorities are investigating the death of an active-duty U.S. Marine who allegedly pointed a gun at officers after killing a transgender prostitute in Hollywood.
Officers, who first tried to subdue the Marine with beanbag rounds, shot him in a McDonald's parking lot in Atwater Village near San Fernando Road and Fletcher Drive. The location is just half a block from the LAPD's Northeast Station.
The shooting was reported at about 4 a.m. Sunday, police said.
The confrontation occurred after a high-speed chase by officers on the ground supported by an LAPD helicopter crew, police said. A handgun was recovered at the scene, said LAPD spokeswoman Sara Faden.
During the chase, the Marine called his mother and sister and said he had shot a man who had tried to rob and carjack him, police told the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
At 3:52 a.m., the Marine shot to death a transgender prostitute, said LAPD Officer Edward Kim. He allegedly dumped the body in a cul-de-sac off Melrose Avenue.
The Marine was from Reseda. He served as a military policeman at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms.
Neither the Marine nor his alleged victim were immediately identified.
IF the facts are as reported above.
Of course, we'll never know exactly what transpired between these two people in private.
Did the Marine kill the (pre-op?) tranny merely because of her
gender?
Or did she try to rob him, as he claimed?
(Not that attempted robbery would justify murder, of course.)
The story sickens and enrages me....