BRIEFLY : BULLET-RIDDLED BODY FOUND IN GRIFFITH PARK.A man was found shot to death Saturday morning near a popular family spot in Griffith Park Griffith Park is a large public park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is situated in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers 4,210 acres (17 km²) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. , officials said. The body, with multiple gunshot wounds, was spotted just off the road near Mount Hollywood and Griffith Park drives in the Travel Town area of the park shortly before 11:50 a.m., said 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 . spokesman Mike Partain.
Park rangers called in homicide detectives from the LAPD's Northeast Division. Travel Town, which offers train rides to kids, draws large weekend crowds and is near trails frequented by joggers, hikers and horseback riders. No details about the dead man were immediately available, Partain said. The Coroner's Office will be examining the body. ?13Daily News Deputies kill man, say he wielded gun Sheriff's deputies shot and killed a 32-year-old El Monte El Monte (ĕl mŏn`tē), city (1990 pop. 106,209), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1912. A residential, industrial, and commercial city in the San Gabriel Valley, El Monte manufactures furniture, electronic equipment, semiconductors, man with a history of mental illness who they said pointed a pistol at them in the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los . Shortly before 9:15 p.m. Friday, two Walnut station sheriff's deputies encountered the man, identified as Richard Boyd Richard Boyd (Ph.D. MIT 1970) is a philosopher who has spent most of his career at Cornell University, though he also taught briefly at Harvard University and the University of Michigan. He is well known in philosophy of science circles as a realist. , seated behind the wheel of a four-door Geo with no lights. The car was parked off Highway 39 near Azusa, according to a sheriff's news release. Deputies said they repeatedly told Boyd to raise his hands, and he raised only his left hand. They said he finally raised his right hand and was holding a large silver pistol that he pointed at them. Both deputies fired numerous rounds that hit Boyd in the upper torso, authorities said. Boyd was taken to the Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora where he was pronounced dead at 9:54 p.m. The deputies were not injured. ?13Daily News Owner of legislators' hangout dies at 92 SACRAMENTO - Frank Fat, the legendary 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. whose watering hole a block from the Capitol was the scene of political intrigue and revelry Revelry Revenge (See VENGEANCE.) Reward (See PRIZE.) Bacchanalia festival in honor of Bacchus, god of wine. [Rom. Religion: NCE, 203] Boar’s Head Tavern scene of Falstaff’s carousals. [Br. Lit. for nearly six decades, died early Saturday. He was 92. Fat, a Chinese immigrant who for years washed dishes to earn a living, opened the restaurant in 1939 in a former speakeasy Speakeasy - Simple array-oriented language with numerical integration and differentiation, graphical output, aimed at statistical analysis. ["Speakeasy", S. Cohen, SIGPLAN Notices 9(4), (Apr 1974)]. ["Speakeasy-3 Reference Manual", S. Cohen et al. 1976]. in Sacramento's Skid Row. Friends thought the restaurant would fold, but it quickly became a Sacramento institution. ``Everybody told him it would be no good, but his friends from the Capitol encouraged him and followed him. He had a wonderful relationship with legislators,'' said Marcus McGee, a manager at Frank Fat's. Over the years, the restaurant hosted a nightly crowd of lawmakers, lobbyists, bureaucrats, and assorted hangers-on, and the restaurant developed a reputation - well deserved - as a place where political deals were cut in smoke-filled rooms. ?13 Associated Press |
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