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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Man killed behind Irvine shopping center
Police searching for a person of interest.
By SEAN EMERY and KIMBERLY EDDS
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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IRVINE ? A group of solemn people sat around tables at a fast-food Chinese restaurant off Jeffrey Road Wednesday night after a man was shot and killed while sitting in a white Lexus parked behind the eatery. Authorities are still searching for the shooter.
A light drizzle fell as Irvine police investigators combed the parking lot behind the shopping center at Jeffrey Road and Roosevelt looking for anything that could explain what led to the killing. Bloodhounds scoured the neighborhood, but came up empty. Meanwhile shoppers rolled carts of groceries out of the nearby Albertsons, sipped Starbucks coffee and ate Quiznos sandwiches for dinner, mostly unaware of the homicide investigation unfolding just on the other side of the wall from where they were living their lives.
Police were called to an Albertson's shopping center at Jeffrey Road and Roosevelt, near I-5 Freeway about 4:40 p.m., Irvine Lt. John Hare said.
Officers found a man shot to death inside a white Lexus parked behind a row of restaurants, Hare said. Police said have not released the victim's name but believe he worked in one of the restaurants.
Several hours after the shooting, police continued to search for a man in his 20s wearing a black hooded sweat shirt who was seen walking away from the Lexus just after the shooting. No gun has been found.
Police filled the shopping center parking lot. A helicopter flew overhead, and sent bloodhounds out to search the area.
Inside the Tri-Village Chinese Restaurant, investigators talked with employees. As the evening wore on, investigators left. A woman in a Tri-Village uniform drove her car out from behind police tape, her day cut unexpectedly short. Other employees and friends stayed inside, stepping out to smoke a cigarette or make a phone call.
Investigators were expected to have wrapped up the crime scene by midnight, but the search for the killer continued.