MAN DEFENDS FATAL SHOOTING OF SUSPECTED THIEF.Byline: Jeannette DeSantis Daily News Staff Writer Daniel McDonald Daniel McDonald (July 30 1960 – February 15 2007) was an American actor who played parts in many TV shows such as and Sex in the City. He was also involved in Broadway, performing most recently in Mamma Mia!. claims he was protecting his son from violent car thieves when he chased down and killed one of the suspects. But prosecutors told a jury Wednesday in McDonald's trial that he is guilty of murder for shooting Henry Lemus in the back as the 40-year-old Hollywood man fled the crime scene. The shooting occurred after McDonald and his 24-year-old son, Mark, allegedly caught Lemus and another man breaking into a car parked outside the apartment building that the McDonalds managed on Moorpark Street. Lemus died a short time later when his companions dropped him off at a nearby hospital. On Wednesday, testimony began with a 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 videotape videotape Magnetic tape used to record visual images and sound, or the recording itself. There are two types of videotape recorders, the transverse (or quad) and the helical. that recorded the aftermath of the shooting in the thick fog early in the morning of Dec. 7, 1995. ``We were up watching television, and I heard an alarm go off,'' the younger McDonald said breathlessly breath·less adj. 1. Breathing with difficulty; gasping: was breathless from running. 2. Marked by the suspension of regular breathing, as from tension or excitement: to an officer on the tape. ``We come out here and they start running to a (getaway car getaway car n the thieves' getaway car → el coche en que huyeron los ladrones getaway car n → voiture prévue pour prendre la fuite ) parked up the street. ``Then they shoot at us two times, and we shot back.'' In his testimony in court Wednesday, Mark McDonald, who had five years of experience as a security guard at the time, said he carried a police-style club outside, hiding it behind his arm when he walked up to the suspected thieves. ``Then the guy stabs stabs (sometimes written STABS) is a debugging data format for storing information about computer programs for use by symbolic and source-level debuggers. It "was apparently invented by Peter Kessler at the University of California, Berkeley" [1] me in the back, and I started swinging at him,'' Mark McDonald said. After a brief scuffle, the younger McDonald said, he heard several rounds of shots before hearing his father's Glock 9 mm semiautomatic gun fire behind him. Mark McDonald said he then noticed one of the fleeing men bleeding. Family, friends and neighbors of McDonald said they were shocked when he was arrested several hours after the shooting. The man has no police record and suffers from a pancreatic pancreatic /pan·cre·at·ic/ (pan?kre-at´ik) pertaining to the pancreas. pancreatic pertaining to the pancreas. See also pancreatitis, diabetes mellitus, cystic pancreatic duct. disorder. Prosecutors said among the factors that convinced them to file murder charges were that Lemus apparently was running away when he was shot and that McDonald fired at least seven shots. McDonald is free on $1 million bail. Testimony in the case is scheduled to resume today. |
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