Local News in Brief : Man Shot to Death at Shelter for Homeless
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A 46-year-old man was shot to death in the parking lot of a North Hollywood motel before daylight Thursday.
Police said residents of the Fiesta Motor Hotel on Lankershim Boulevard heard gunshots shortly after 4 a.m. and found a man with several bullet wounds in his chest lying in the parking lot. Paramedics pronounced the man dead at the scene.
Some of the motel’s units are being used by the Valley Interfaith Council, a philanthropic organization, to temporarily house homeless families. There was no apparent connection between the shooting and the program.
North Hollywood police detective Howard Landgren said the victim was not a resident of the motel and that apparently none of the motel’s residents knew the man.
Landgren said there were no suspects, and police were withholding the man’s identity until his relatives could be notified.
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