Why my initial thoughts are a contract hit:
Anyone able to group five shots in the chest area is not experiencing road rage or any other sort of rage. Even at close range a person experiencing rage would be lucky to get two out of five shots into the torso.
No shell casings? Probably knows enough to use a revolver and therefore never has to pick up shell casings at the scene of his handiwork. Could he have used a semi-automatic and kept it inside the vehicle? Sure, but even if wearing earplugs that noise is loud. However, if he did keep an automatic inside the vehicle that again indicates a lack of rage because having a concern for shell casings would usually mean being calm and experienced.
Driving skill. No skid marks from braking or from peeling away at a high rate of speed. Cool, calm and collected. By the time do-gooders get to the scene he is not only long gone but he has departed the scene quietly. This does not indicate road rage. Did he have a kill switch for the tail lights? I have no idea but it is a possibility since even early arriving witnesses saw no other vehicles.
Location: He chose a good location and may even have chosen an optimal location. This is not likely to have happened as a result of road rage. Nor as some have suggested was it some sort of random gang-initiation shooting. He probably knew where to be waiting and had a spotter car confirm the route and timing signals, although its clear that the location of the shooting was on the route that she would be taking to get from Sunset Blvd. to Wilshire Blvd.
A gang initiation shooting is absurd. They don't have the patience to lie in wait much less in that neighborhood. A gang shooting would be spraying shells all over the place.
I doubt there was any object used to shatter the window prior to the shots being fired. Its difficult to do that anyway particularly from a vehicle. It also gives an alarm that would allow the victim to suddenly accelerate. It was just a sudden firing of at least five well controlled shots into the victim's torso. A sure kill. Then a calm departure without any tire-squeeling. Someone knew the area, knew the vehicle and the occupant, positioned themselves, fired at least five times into the victim's torso and left the area in a calm and deliberate manner. This was not some gang initiation. This was not some road rage incident. This was a hit.
Addendum: Concerning Dum-Dum bullets: Although there are various fine differences in describing hollow point ammunition and no precise information is as yet available concerning what was found in the corpse, it appears that the ammunition utilized was sensibly selected for the task at hand. It would penetrate a body sufficiently and cause considerable damage to tissue but would be unlikely to exit the body. The ammunition is readily available. There was no reason to believe the victim would have been wearing body armor and that therefore non-deforming armor-piercing ammunition would have been required. Once again, it appears that sensible selections were made and that there are no indications of a spur of the moment incident provoked by road rage or any sort of randomly encountered target.
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NYPost item of Dec 2nd:
a person of interest blew his brains out as cops were trying to serve him with search warrant.
The stunning development came the same day a preliminary coroner's report indicated the killer was an expert shot able to squeeze off multiple rounds in a tight, deadly formation.
"The thing that stands out is the shots, where they were and the lack of hits anywhere else," retired LA County Sheriff's Department Lt. Gil Carrillo said after reviewing the report.
The close alignment of the wounds suggests the shooting was carried out by a professional hit man and not in a gang attack or road-rage incident, Carrillo said
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Its unclear just how authoritative this "report" document is since the document appears to have been circulated prior to the autopsy and the Medical Examiner's office had been short-staffed at the time. There are indications that no county coroner's staff had even started a report at the time the questioned document was being circulated.
Initial news reports indicate that the decedent had told a fellow tenant that he had done a yard and a stretch in prison and soon expected to receive ten thousand dollars.
The prior prison record, the blabbing and the killing prior to being paid would all certainly indicate that this man was not a professional.
Update: the current BHPD theory is that the shooter was financially desperate, rode seven miles on a bicycle from his former abode and just happened to attempt to rob Ronni Chasen at a stop sign without realizing that a potential victim would drive off at the first sign of trouble.
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