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Los Angeles County sheriff’s detectives on Wednesday night were investigating the killing of a man in South Los Angeles.
Deputies responded about 7:30 p.m. to a shooting in the 12100 block of S. Vermont Avenue, where they found a man who had been shot multiple times, Sheriff’s Lt. Barry Hall said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man was standing on a sidewalk or in a driveway on Vermont Avenue when he was shot, Hall said. Authorities had no suspect descriptions Wednesday night.
Detectives were cataloguing numerous shell casings at the scene and canvassing the area for surveillance footage, Hall said.
Withnail & I and
Enter The Dragon and
My Left Foot as executive producer, died on December 28 in Los Angeles. He was 93.
Heller, a longtime board member of BAFTA LA, was born in New York on September 25, 1927, and spent many years in England producing some of his most acclaimed films.
His first feature, the 1962 mental health drama
David And Lisa directed by Frank Perry, earned two Oscar nominations for directing and for Eleanor Perry’s adapted screenplay.
Encouraged to pursue his career with gusto, Heller produced Leopoldo Torre Nilsson’s Argentina-US political drama
The
Eavesdropper a couple of years later and the Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards honoured it with best film and best director prizes in 1967.