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REWARD OFFERED IN MULHOLLAND DEATH.


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The city offered a $25,000 reward Thursday for information leading to the arrest of two gunmen in a fatal shooting on Mulholland Drive For the motion picture, see .
Mulholland Drive is a very well-known road in Los Angeles, California named after engineer William Mulholland. A portion of it is also called Mulholland Highway.
 that ended with a vehicle plunging 160 feet off a cliff.

City Councilman Michael Feuer Michael Feuer (1958-)[1] is a Californian politician and lawyer. He now represents the 42nd Assembly District which includes Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and part of Los Angeles in the California State Assembly. He was elected in 2006 on the Democratic ticket.  announced the reward, saying there have been no leads in the crime that left Darrio Torres, 32, of Burbank dead. His passenger suffered bumps and bruises when the Jeep Cherokee Jeep Cherokee can refer to five different SUV models produced by Jeep from 1974 to the present:
  • Jeep Cherokee (SJ), a full-size SUV produced 1974–1983
  • Jeep Cherokee (XJ), a compact SUV produced 1984–2001
 rolled off the cliff.

Torres, a married father with a young daughter, was shot in the head and killed before dawn Saturday after he and his 29-year-old passenger were accosted ac·cost  
tr.v. ac·cost·ed, ac·cost·ing, ac·costs
1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

2. To solicit for sex.
 by the two men. Police would not say if anything was taken.

The woman, whose name was withheld because she was the sole witness to the crime, called 911 on a cellular phone after the crash. Police would not discuss the victim's relationship with the woman.

Frantic 911 tapes of the survivor were released Thursday by police.

``We were on the top of the mountain and the car went down,'' a tearful voice told the emergency operator. ``I hear the helicopter. I think I see the lights. . . . I can see it. I can see it.''

The woman was treated at a hospital for back pain and released.

The robbery occurred in the vicinity of where Ennis Cosby, the son of entertainer Bill Cosby, was killed in January while he was changing a flat tire.

Mulholland Drive, winding atop the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography
They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County.
 for 21 miles, has been a relatively safe, popular spot for tourists and lovers.
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Date:Oct 24, 1997
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