Michael Jackson Death Hoax Investigators
Hoax Investigation => General Hoax Investigation => Other Odd Things => Topic started by: MJonmind on December 11, 2011, 05:01:16 AM
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I'm not sure if anyone mentioned this.
On December 9th, in Hollywood on Sunset and Vine intersection (locations in Hollywood Tonight video) a lone gunman opened fire all around him,
hitting (injuring) at least one man. Police opened fire and killed the gunman (sounds like he could have been shouting something Arabic). It's kinda weird that at 1:25 a witness comes out and says, "Bam, bam the gun went off".
He's wearing a Hard Rock t-shirt.
Just weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9bn-k2UtBg&feature=g-logo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9bn-k2UtBg&feature=g-logo)
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Hollywood gunman shot dead by policeman from movie set
By Reuters
Saturday, December 10, 2011
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire on motorists in the heart of Hollywood on Friday, wounding three people before he was shot to death by an off-duty police officer who had been working on a nearby film set.
The bizarre mid-morning incident, which some witnesses initially mistook for a movie, touched off fear, confusion and panic at the famed Hollywood intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street.
Police said on Friday night they were still trying to determine why the 26-year-old gunman, whose name was not immediately released, began firing randomly at motorists and pedestrians.
A 40-year-old man who was struck by a bullet while driving through the intersection in a silver Mercedes was listed in critical condition at a local hospital, Los Angeles Police spokeswoman Norma Eisenman said.
Two other men suffered minor injuries, one when he was grazed by a bullet and the other when glass from a car window shattered near his face, Eisenman said. None of the wounded were identified by name.
Eisenman said a plainclothes detective and an off-duty motorcycle officer who was working a security detail on the set of a film in the area were the first to engage the gunman.
“He was the one who shot the suspect,” Eisenman said of the off-duty officer.
Police said they didn’t know which production the officer was working on when he responded to the call.
‘THEY’RE SHOOTING AT US’
A spokesman for FilmLA, an agency that coordinates film and television permits in Los Angeles, said the closest movie set was “Gangster Squad,” a crime drama starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Sean Penn.
That set was several blocks away from the intersection of Sunset and Vine, the spokesman said, although he could not confirm that the officer had been working there.
Witness Micah Williams told local KCAL-9 TV that he and a friend were walking nearby when the gunman began shooting “in every which direction.”
Williams said at first he and his friend thought the suspect was part of a movie.
“Then the third one ricocheted right by our head and I was like, ‘Dude, they’re shooting at us’,” Williams said.
A series of videos taken from a nearby office tower and posted on Twitter showed the gunman, dressed in black pants and a white shirt. walking in the intersection firing what appeared to be a handgun as motorists slammed on their brakes and veered out of the way.
Police were then seen arriving on the scene and running in the man’s direction. Several more shots were fired out of the camera’s view.
Another brief clip, posted on the Los Angeles Times website, showed the man firing at a black pick-up truck at close range.
Witness Oscar Herrera told local KCBS-TV he saw the shooter fire his gun at several cars traveling near or through the intersection.
Herrera told KCBS that when the suspect apparently ran out of bullets he put the gun into his waistband and took out a knife before he was shot by police.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/10/hollywood-gunman-shot-dead-by-policeman-from-movie-set/
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LOS ANGELES (AP) – Friends and neighbors of a gunman who was shot dead by police as he fired randomly at passing cars on a Hollywood street — critically wounding one man — say he was deeply troubled by the recent breakup with his girlfriend.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-10/hollywood-gunman-shooting/51786112/1?csp=hf
It's not a terrorist attack. But fiction met reality or the other way around.
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"BAM!" is a word we use in comics, and the old Batman tv series, lol. BAM! POW! KAPOW!
Anyway, there was a real hero that day: the man screaming down at the shooter, from the 4th floor, who's holding a video camera. He figured the shooter couldn't hit him from that distance, and he was trying to distract him long enough to save lives.
Shame about the loss of that fellow who was shot, though.
He was a MUSIC EXEC, wouldn't you know? John Atterberry.
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/12/sunset_vine_hollywood_officer_shooting_lapd.php