EX-LAPD OFFICER FOUND IN CAR DIES AFTER APPARENT BEATING.Byline: CAROL ROCK Staff Writer NEWHALL -- A former 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 officer recognized for heroism Heroism See also Bravery. Achilles Greek hero without whom Troy could not have been taken. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad] Aeneas Trojan hero; legendary founder of Roman race. [Rom. Lit. has died after being found unconscious in a parked car, the victim of an apparent beating. Because of the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of 36-year-old Bradley Kolfschoten -- who was found just after noon Tuesday in a car parked near 16th Street and Newhall Avenue -- sheriff's homicide detectives did not reveal any details of their investigation. ``It appeared that he may have been beaten,'' said Coroner's Office Capt. Ed Winter. A definitive cause of death had not been determined as of Wednesday afternoon. Kolfschoten died at Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital about 1 a.m. Wednesday. A former San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. resident, Kolfschoten joined the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. in 1996 and worked in the West Valley and Foothill divisions before resigning in September 2005, 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. LAPD spokesman Kevin Maiberger. On New Year's Eve 1998, Kolfschoten was one of four officers who dragged to safety LAPD Officer Cynthia French after she was wounded in a gunbattle in the gated Studio Park neighborhood with a man armed with a pistol and rifles. The gunman died. In 2002, Kolfschoten and a second officer helped save two Reseda women and their pets from a house fire. LAPD Foothill Division Captain Jeffrey Greer said Kolfschoten was a ``solid officer, a top flight guy,'' and cited his productivity on the job. ``He did his job very well,'' Greer said. ``He was one of my top producers.'' Greer declined to comment on why Kolfschoten, a nine-year veteran, left the force last fall. Rose Budhu, the owner of Liberty Services, where Kolfschoten maintained a personal mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). in Newhall, said the former officer was friendly and helpful. ``I can't imagine anybody harming him,'' she said from her San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the office, just blocks from where Kolfschoten was found. ``He had the box about six years and I saw him just a couple of weeks ago.'' She described Kolfschoten as tall, dark-haired and slender; someone who would talk with other customers when he had to wait for a package and one she trusted to watch the store if she had to run an errand To perform an errand . See also: Errand . Homicide investigators are asking anyone with information to call (323) 890-5500. carol.rock(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5252 |
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