ronnie chasen was shot and killed after leaving a premiere for the movie burr less can. it is believed harold martin smith fired the fatal shot but a lot of people in hollywood aren t buying the story. there s a lot of skepticism about the ballistics whether or not the guy was on a bike doing some kind of drive-by shooting. the fact that he killed himself made it look like a contract killing. there is not a lot of faith in the investigation. they flip flopped said this has none of the features of a random act of violence. all of a sudden it was a random act of violence. they won t explain why there was this erroneous information first delivered regarding the ballisti ballistics. there s not a lot of confidence this is the guy. what is your take? absolutely. i completely agree. first it did not match then it all of a sudden did.
it s 9:45 here on the aesk, 6:45 out west. here s some of the other stories. they are calling it operation payback a network of wikileak supporters launching a series of web attacks. they targeted sarah palin s website and visa and mastercard. beverly hills police said hollywood publicist ronnie chasen was murdered in a random robbery. smith was riding his bike when he shot chasen to death. he committed suicide with the same gun he used to kill chasen. the cold weather from the great lakes moving to the south, hard freeze warnings are in place for florida, georgia, alabama and mississippi. temperatures are expected to dip below 27 degrees for a couple of hours.
ronnie chasen story. is it case closed or not yet? brook, kind of case closed. they have cracked the case, the murder mystery of ronnie chasen, that publicist who was murdered it looks like, brook, if you can believe tax tip from that show, we all know the show, america s most wanted, take it back a bit. chasen, as you know, was shot and killed in car driving home from the big movie burlesque movie premiere on november 15th. get this, five days later, america s most wanted aired the story, asking viewers to call in with any info, thand they got t that led to this man, harold martin smith. they believe he was the shooter, the guy who did it he committed suicide a week ago at an apartment in hollywood. police believe, brook, that he was, in fact, acting alone, that it was a robbery gone bad. also hearing from authorities that he was hiding out, that is
republicans following compromise? the daily rundown interview with senator john cornyn, chairman of the national republican senatorial committee. real life hollywood whodunit more mysterious, why police are investigating the 3-week-old murder of publicist ronnie chasen, now become at square one. but first a look ahead at the president s schedule. he is making fifth trip of his presidency to a certain swing state down south, north carolina, which if you look at all the swing states in 2010, how they perform that one was of not the big republican victory home for a big republican victory that some of the other states were. it is very much in the middle of the battleground and we are going to see him there a lot, because you know why it is a quick trip. it is that. you are watching the daily rundown, only on msnbc. nobody in my family ever had a heart attack.
smith. avenues man who lived in a kind of seedy apartment house in hollywood and bragged to his neighbors that he had killed ronnie chasen. when business police arrived to question him, he pulled out a gun and shot himself dead and thinking maybe this man was just mentally unstable and the bragging was just so much talk to puff his own reputation up. the question is who did kim ronnie chain now the investigation does go back to square one. she was shot almost three weeks ago on sunset boulevard, just as she was turning off toward her home in west los angeles. was it an act of random violence? one of chasen s friends and ex-he cans ever to her estate was the today show this morning saying that she thought maybe ronnie chasen drove too flashy a car, a mercedes and with her blonde hair, she was a likely target for random