CHIEF DEFENDS LAPD'S ACCOUNT OF ACTOR'S DEATH.Byline: Alexa Haussler Staff Writer Police Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. said Tuesday that an autopsy report showing actor Anthony Dwain Lee Anthony Dwain Lee (July 17, 1971 – October 28, 2000) was an African-American actor through the 1990s. He was shot to death by LAPD officer Terriel Hopper under mysterious circumstances during a Halloween party while wielding a toy gun. was shot in the back does not contradict statements by a witness, the officer involved in the shooting or investigators. Parks called Lee's death at a Halloween party a tragic incident, since the officer mistook a replica gun for a real one and fired nine shots, hitting the 39-year-old actor four times. The County Coroner's Office report said Lee was hit in the back of the head once and in the back three times, suggesting he was ducking or spinning around as LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Officer Tarriel Hooper fired through a window, Parks said. ``It's apparent that the body was moving at the times that the shots were being fired,'' Parks said during a news conference at Parker Center Parker Center is the headquarters for the Los Angeles Police Department, and is located in Downtown LA. It is named for former LAPD chief William H. Parker. Originally with the prosaic name, the Police Administration Building, ground for the center was broken on December 30, 1952 , the 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 Department's headquarters. ``The officer did not initiate this incident - the officer reacted to what he thought was a gun being pointed at him. ``We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. whether he ducked, whether he pirouetted, whether he moved or slipped.'' Lee, a resident of Van Nuys, was killed Oct. 28 at a Hollywood Hills The Hollywood Hills, an unofficial designation of part of the City of Los Angeles, California, are part of the eastern section of the low transverse range of the Santa Monica Mountains, which extends from the Los Feliz District and Hollywood, on the south side of the Valley, to mansion where officers responded to a call about noise at a Halloween party shortly after midnight. Hooper and another officer were walking alongside the house, looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the party's host, when Hooper fired after he saw Lee point a replica gun at him through a glass window, investigators have said. Many guests at the party wore costumes, and it was not clear whether Lee understood that the officers were actual members of the LAPD. In addition, Lee held a replica that looked realistic, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Parks and other officials. Parks called the news conference to respond to a report in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). that said Lee's wounds ``appear to contradict police accounts.'' The chief denied there was anything in the coroner's report that in any way contradicts police statements. To bolster his explanation, Parks cited the comments of a witness to the shooting who told police he was outside near the officers and also saw Lee. ``The witness observed Mr. Lee with a handgun in his hand pointed down at a 45-degree angle in the direction of the officer,'' Parks said, adding that the witness said Lee next leveled the gun at the officer. ``The witness felt threatened and couldn't tell if the gun was real,'' Parks said. The autopsy report released Tuesday stated that Lee suffered two potentially fatal wounds to his back that hit vital organs and one nonfatal wound to the back of his head. Parks said the angle of the entry wounds - the wounds to his back were pointed upward and the injury on his head downward - indicate that he could have suddenly moved. Los Angeles Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. is representing family members of Lee, an actor who appeared in NBC-TV's ``ER'' and other television shows, in a wrongful-death lawsuit against the LAPD that is expected to use the autopsy to challenge the officer's action. He was unavailable for comment. Parks said the department has made no conclusive rulings about the shooting and, after the fatality, went public only with information about the danger of using realistic replica weapons. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) LAPD Chief Bernard C. Parks addresses reporters Tuesday at Parker Center. Tina Burch/Staff Photographer |
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