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MAN GUNNED DOWN OUTSIDE APARTMENT.


Byline: Greg GREG Great Egg Harbor National Scenic and Recreational River (US National Park Service)  Botonis Staff Writer

An argument ended in a Palmdale Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962.  man being shot several times Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week.

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 morning in front of his apartment building, deputies said Friday.

Basilio Leon Jr. was found dead in the driveway of the Iron Mountain Apartments complex in the 1300 block of East Avenue Q just before 5 a.m.

A 911 call to the Palmdale sheriff's station, placed about 4:50 a.m., reported gunshots in front of the building. Sheriff's deputies were already en route to the building after they heard two or three shots from the station a half-mile away, sheriff's officials said.

Witnesses told investigators they saw the gunman running from the front of the building through a field on its west side, where he dropped a .223-caliber Ruger semi-automatic rifle A semi-automatic rifle is a type of rifle that fires a single bullet each time the trigger is pulled, without the need to manually operate a bolt, lever or other firing or loading mechanism. . The gunman then ran to a parked car on 12th Street East and drove off, deputies said.

Deputies located the rifle and confirmed witnesses' stories with footprints and tire tracks consistent with the path witnesses showed them. 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 were called out to investigate the death.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Nov 27, 1999
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