O.J. REPORTS TAKING BITE OUT OF CRIME.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Daily News Staff Writer Confronted by a gunman Tuesday at a Griffith Park Griffith Park is a large public park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is situated in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers 4,210 acres (17 km²) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. golf course, O.J. Simpson said he wrested away the weapon by biting the man's hand and chased him into Burbank while calling police on a cell phone. The former football star and actor, made notorious by his acquittal on murder charges, backed off after police told him to abandon the chase and go to 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 Northeast Division to report the crime. ``My first reaction wasn't to follow him, but I got in my van and followed him,'' Simpson told The Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . ``I called the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. and advised them where we were. He began to run red lights and they told me to pull over.'' The man, described as well-dressed and in his 40s, was not caught, said Los Angeles police Officer Jason Lee, who said the attack occurred about 4:05 p.m. at Harding Municipal Golf Course in Griffith Park. The case was being investigated as an attempted robbery or assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. , Lee said. Simpson said he had just finished playing golf with friends when he was confronted in the parking lot. ``I was taking my shoes off between cars and I sensed someone coming up behind me,'' Simpson said. ``I turned around and he was holding a gun on me.'' Simpson said he tried to reason with the gunman: ``I said, Man, why do you want to screw up to force; to bring by violent pressure. See also: Screw your life? Take my car. You don't want to do this.'' But the assailant reportedly replied, ``O.J., I hear you carry a lot of money.'' When Simpson said he offered his money and credit cards, the man did not take them, nor would he leave when warned that someone might witness the attack. ``He stepped toward me and we wrestled for the gun. I bit his hand so he would let go of the gun,'' said Simpson, who cut his hand on the barrel of the gun. During the chase, Simpson said he got the man's license number, which he relayed to police. Asked whether he thought the motive was robbery, Simpson said, ``He didn't want the car, he wanted me.'' Simpson described the suspect as clean-cut, ``like a regular solid citizen . . . I might have taken him for an off-duty policeman.'' He said the man was white, in his 40s or 50s with white hair. In 1995, Simpson was acquitted of slaying his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal and her friend Ronald Goldman Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was murdered in Los Angeles, California in 1994 at the age of 25 along with his friend Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. . However, he later was found liable for their deaths in a civil trial and was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Simpson |
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