BARRICADED MAN KILLS HIMSELF\Member of Kanan family shoots dog, horse in 4-hour police standoff.Byline: Mary Schubert and Steven J. Gorman Daily News Staff Writers A member of a pioneer Agoura family shot himself to death Sunday after holding Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police at bay for four hours and killing a horse and a dog. Police identified the dead man as Michael Richard
Attorney Tom Nunziato, who represented Michael Kanan's aunt, Pat Kanan, said the dead man was related to the family after whom Kanan Road in Agoura is named. Michael Kanan had been despondent de·spon·dent adj. Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected. de·spon  dent·ly adv. over the death Friday of his elderly aunt, Pat Kanan, in her Manhattan Beach Manhattan Beach, city (1990 pop. 32,063), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1912. It is a residential and beach community with an oil refinery and nearby factories that produce transportation and electrical equipment, computers, and pottery. home, and the hospitalization of his father, George Kanan. Michael Kanan was a suspect in the slaying of his aunt, Judy Kanan, 68, a restaurateur res·tau·ra·teur also res·tau·ran·teur n. The manager or owner of a restaurant. [French, from restaurer, to restore; see restaurant. and landowner. Judy Kanan, George and Pat's sister, was shot to death Jan. 29, 1985, while feeding her prized Arabian horses at a Woodland Hills corral corral a small fenced-in enclosure with high, wooden fences, suitable for holding cattle or horses. corral system a management system in which range cattle are put into corrals and fed hay for a period when the environment is most . In 1991, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office declined to file murder charges against Michael Kanan. He denied involvement in the killing. Michael Kanan shot himself in the yard of a home on Gladstone Street. Officers found a flare strapped to his body, Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . spokeswoman Lorie Taylor said. Police were called to the Gladstone Street home about 11 a.m., after receiving a report of a man with a gun. There were conflicting reports about what happened when officers arrived at the scene. Taylor said the man fired three rounds from an assault rifle at the officers. Other reports indicated he aimed a weapon at police, but did not fire. Kanan later barricaded himself in a horse barn, and police heard several more shots. About four hours later, Kanan shot a horse and dog to death inside the barn, then walked into the yard and shot himself in the head with a semiautomatic handgun, Taylor said. He was pronounced dead at Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills. Nunziato said George Kanan had a heart attack Saturday morning after learning of his sister's death. "She was 80-some years old," Nunziato said. "She had some illnesses. It was natural causes." "The family is pretty much in mourning," Nunziato said. 
Linda Kanan Lattanzio (Member): 2/12/2009 3:31 PM
This is not what happen, it sickens me that these repoters cant get there stories straight. |
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