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The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department released the name of the man who took his son hostage in the bathroom of a restaurant in El Monte last night and was fatally shot by police.
Here's the link to the story from AP, and there's more to come from us, but here are some of the highlights:
According to the FBI, Manuel Benitez, 38, was wanted for the 2004 murder of his girlfriend. He allegedly bludgeoned her to death with a dumbbell in Hawthorne took off with his son. He's been on the run ever since, and the FBI are now looking for his mother Elizabeth Velasco, who they think had been traveling with Benitez and his son.
Ah, but it gets better. Benitez has the distinction of having his own IMDB page -- and not just because he starred as himself in an episode of "America's Most Wanted" in 2005.
Under the name Mark Everett, Benitez was a child actor with bit roles in "Stand and Deliver," "Pee Wee's Playhouse" and "Battlestar Galactica."
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