Granddaughter of LAPD Chief Shot and Killed
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We begin this hour with a tragedy out of Los Angeles, where the Police Chief Bernard Parks has seen his department besieged by a corruption scandal and the ensuing investigation trigger a bitter fight within the city's government. But nothing could compare to the shooting death of his granddaughter. The 20-year-old woman was gunned down Sunday night in what's being described as a tragic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We get the latest now from reporter Jennifer Sabih (ph), she is with our affiliate in Los Angeles, KCBS.</s>JENNIFER SABIH, KCBS REPORTER (voice-over): August, 1997, and with his family on the benches behind him, Bernard Parks is sworn in as the city's 52nd police chief.</s>BERNARD PARKS, L.A. POLICE CHIEF: And I will faithfully discharge the duties.</s>SABIH: Now the duties of his office, three years later, heart- wrenchingly widened to include overseeing the murder of his granddaughter. It was here at this Popeye's that 20-year-old Lori Gonzalez, the daughter of the chief's daughter, Felicia, had come with a young male friend for late night snack. The two got their food and Lori, who was behind the wheel, pulled out of the drive-through lane and waited at the street for traffic to clear, when a man with a gun came up.</s>UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: He approached the passenger side and pulled out a handgun. The passenger inside the vehicle, the male companion, apparently ducked as the suspect fired into the car.</s>SABIH: And the bullets, police assume were meant for the male passenger, hit Lori instead.</s>UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: We don't know exactly what the motive was for the shooting. But it appears that Lori Gonzalez was not the intended target.</s>SABIH: But it was Lori Gonzalez who died at a hospital, a few minutes later, while friend consoled at the curb.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm very nervous to be here right now.</s>SABIH: Life goes on at this corner of Labrea (ph) and Jefferson, but customers admit they're skittish.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because I don't know if some maniac is going to come by shooting or trying to kill me or my cousin or not. We're taking a chance.</s>SABIH: A chance that somehow seems greater knowing even the family of L.A.'s police chief is vulnerable to violence.</s>KAGAN: And that report was filed by Jennifer Sabih of our affiliate KCBS.