DETECTIVES SEEK WITNESSES IN FATAL BEATING.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Homicide homicide (hŏm`əsīd), in law, the taking of human life. Homicides that are neither justifiable nor excusable are considered crimes. A criminal homicide committed with malice is known as murder, otherwise it is called manslaughter. detectives are 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. witnesses to the beating of a man Sunday evening in an alley alley an area in a cow barn identified by its particular purpose such as a loafing alley, a walking alley or feeding alley. behind a Lancaster shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into . The man died at a hospital of what hospital employees said appeared to be a heart attack, detectives said. Detectives 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. why the man was in the alley or what prompted the beating, and have not been able to locate the people who reported it. ``We don't know what they saw, but we'd sure like to talk to them about it,'' sheriff's Lt. Joe Hartshorne said Monday. The name of the man, described as a Lancaster resident in his early 50s, was not immediately released because authorities could not locate his family. About 6:45 p.m. Sunday, people told a security guard at the shopping center in the 2700 block of West Avenue L that a man was lying in an alley behind the stores, Hartshorne said. The security guard found the man and notified paramedics and deputies. The witnesses left before deputies arrived, Hartshorne said. The man was pronounced dead about 8:10 p.m. at Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley Hospital. Anyone with knowledge about the crime was asked to call the homicide bureau at (323) 890-5500. Detectives also are investigating the shooting death of 41-year-old Nelson Paul Thrasher thrasher: see mimic thrush. thrasher Any of 17 species (family Mimidae) of New World songbirds that have a downcurved bill and are noted for noisily foraging on the ground in dense thickets and for loud, varied songs. at an acquaintance's Palmdale apartment earlier Sunday, apparently involving a dispute over a car. Detectives said Robert Deatherage, 63, of Palmdale was arrested on suspicion of murder and was being held without the possibility of bail. Detectives said the victim and Deatherage had known each other for years and were involved in some sort of dispute over the ownership of a car. The victim went to Deatherage's apartment in the 1000 block of East Avenue R, where the men got into an argument and the victim was shot once with a handgun about 3:30 p.m., detectives said. Paramedics pronounced Thrasher dead at the scene, and Deatherage was arrested. Deatherage has not talked to detectives, Hartshorne said. ``All we know, because there's no one for us to talk to, is there was some kind of dispute over a car,'' Hartshorne said. |
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