Woman found shot dead in Hollywood [updated]
Police detectives were investigating the death of a woman who was found dead from a gunshot wound to the back of the head inside her parked vehicle Friday night in Hollywood.
Patrol officers were sent around 8:30 p.m. to the 5800 block of Lexington Avenue in the Little Armenia area to investigate a possible death, said Officer April Harding of the Los Angeles Police Department. When officers arrived, they discovered the woman, who was in her 30s, Harding said.
No further details were available.
[Updated at 11:30 a.m.: Since January 2007, L.A. County coroner's officials have reported at least 20 homicides within one mile of the 5800 block of Lexington Avenue, according to data collected for The Times' interactive Homicide Report.]
-- Ruben Vives
EDITOR'S PICKS:
I wonder if this is still more spillover from the shooting in Los Feliz last week near Franklin and Hillhurst. If there is some sort of Armenian gang struggle for turf, it could get pretty ugly before it is settled. Unless it is an internecine struggle between Latino and Armenian gangs, which is probably unlikely.
Posted by: Dodger Tony | March 27, 2010 at 01:12 PM
Armenia & Russia are now the Middle East ?
Wow ! Who knew....
Posted by: jaysunb | March 27, 2010 at 01:18 PM
I have noticed that the Russian Armenian group to be the more crime driven element of the Armenian sects. I may be mistaken but that just has been my impression.
Posted by: DR | March 27, 2010 at 01:33 PM
More details please...is it really gang related or is there something else going on?
Posted by: curious | March 27, 2010 at 01:41 PM
Who said this woman was Armenian? This area around hollywood also has lots of mexicans living in the area. It's also the area where all the transexual latino prostitutes work.
Posted by: frank | March 27, 2010 at 02:12 PM
I did not know that Armenian and Russian were middle eastern. Thanks for telling me I wasted all those years in School working on a Masters degree in Geography, believing that they are eastern European.
Wow thanks for enlightening me.
Posted by: justin | March 27, 2010 at 02:34 PM
@jaysunb
Yes, I think that you will find that the Middle East was (in part) relocated during the last administration.
Posted by: JJFLASH | March 27, 2010 at 02:58 PM
Los Angeles is a problem. An overpopulated nightmare under the leadership of the idiotic Villaraigosa. After graduating from the unaccredited People's College of Law, Antonio Villaraigosa never passed the bar after failing the bar exam four times. He still is not a lawyer. He is the "leader" of Los Angeles... a total incompetent.
Posted by: pasadena jag | March 27, 2010 at 03:45 PM
Could this be related to the woman who was murdered in the area last week by a gunshot to her head? She'd been sitting at a bus stop, and even her boyfriend apparently didn't realize that she was shot when she slumped over. It's very frightening to me that murder seems to be so easy to commit and get away with in such a central area of LA.
Posted by: Marina | March 27, 2010 at 04:53 PM
Although that area is technically in the Little Armenia neighborhood it is primarily a Latin neighborhood. The local gangs are La Mirada and Mara Salvatrucha, and a few others.
Posted by: JVD | March 27, 2010 at 05:13 PM
Have you eaten at Zankou chicken? They've had a fatal family feud and the son killed the sister and mother. I'm not sure why I'm even bringing this up????
Posted by: charlesinoc | March 27, 2010 at 05:16 PM
Her husband and 8 year old daughter was murdered december 2008.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/13/local/me-hollywood-shoot13
Posted by: Jon | March 27, 2010 at 06:15 PM
wow, i heard about the husband and 9 year old child being killed last year. may god rest their souls, im greatly sorry for your loss. to the 12 year old daughter.. baby girl be strong, theyre in a better place.
Posted by: Tina | March 27, 2010 at 10:16 PM
wow, i heard about the husband and 9 year old child being killed last year. may god rest their souls, im greatly sorry for your loss. to the 12 year old daughter.. baby girl be strong, theyre in a better place.
Posted by: Tina | March 27, 2010 at 10:16 PM
Its so cool thay zone it as "Little Armenia". They have such a deep rich history there. Going back like 16 years!
Posted by: Lesbyani Armfartian | March 27, 2010 at 10:57 PM
MadPuss, you're a racist. you're obviously missing all the crime WHITE PEOPLE born in the US cause in the country.
"they're a very violent group of people those middle easterners."
let me remind you something, the people who go to war with two countries for no reason (afghanistan, iraq) are violent, not the country that hasn't attacked anyone (armenia) and has had 1.5Million killed in genocide, get a clue and take a course, racist.
Posted by: seriously | March 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM
I submitted a comment regarding this shooting possibly being related with a shooting in the area of about a week ago where a woman was shot in the head while at a bus stop. It hasn't been posted yet, why not?
Posted by: Marina | March 28, 2010 at 07:47 AM
Los Angeles Times has dropped the ball on this story. Other news outlets are reporting that this is the same lady that lost her husband and 9 year old daughter to murder in December 2008. L.A. Times still has not reported this information.
Posted by: jon | March 28, 2010 at 07:55 AM
That area of Hollywood was starting to attract armenians more that 16 years ago. St. Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church was built in 1978.
Posted by: Jone | March 28, 2010 at 03:27 PM