The city that has topped the list of safest large cities in the U.S. for four years running has a homicide investigation on it’s hands. City News Service Reports:

IRVINE – A man in a white Lexus parked behind a pizza parlor in an Irvine shopping center
was fatally shot today, a police lieutenant said.
Irvine police responded at 4:40 p.m. to a possible shots fired call at the Trabuco Grove Shopping Center at Jeffrey and Trabuco roads, Irvine police Lt. John Hare said.
There were several reports that the victim had been sleeping in his car, and that the passenger side rear window had been blown out.
Police, interviewing witnesses, got a “vague” description of a suspect wearing a black hooded
sweatshirt and leaving the area by walking north through a nearby alley, Hare said.
The suspect was believed to be in his mid 20s, 5 feet 6 inches tall, and of unknown weight.
The victim was believed to work in a restaurant in the shopping center, but police were trying to confirm which one as well as the man’s name, Hare said.
Orange County Sheriff’s Department bloodhounds were called to the scene, Hare said.
Detectives interviewed people who had been in the area, but it was unclear if the actual shooting was witnessed.
Irvine has been named as the nation’s safest city with a population of more than 100,000 for four consecutive years, based on FBI statistics.
Anyone with information was asked to call Detective Noelle Smiley at (949) 724-7168.