Hit-and-run killer sought
Dennis McCarthy pens a piece today about a man named Kenneth Russell, who died at age 27 two months ago when a driver of a dark-colored Jeep Grand Cherokee slammed into Russell's motorcycle. Russell was on his way home from a job he had just finished at a Santa Ana mall. He was a lighting technician and had just put the finishing touches on a 30-foot-tall Christmas tree welcoming in the holidays at the shopping center. After he made sure all the lights worked, he headed home to Arleta. He never made it past North Hollywood.
Detective Doug Larkin is frustrated.
"Witnesses said the driver looked back when he hit him," says Larkin, shaking his head. "He knew what he had done, but he still had the callousness to accelerate and leave the scene.
"We had numerous leads, but nothing panned out. Witnesses didn't get as good a look at him as they thought they did. It's extremely frustrating."
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