Gary Freeman, 33

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Gary Freeman, 33-year-old black man, was shot in the abdomen near Arlington and Adams Boulevard at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 16 in the Crenshaw area, and died at California Hospital a few days later, at 1:28 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 20. Freeman was on his way to his girlfriend’s house in his older Cadillac Seville when a bullet ripped through the driver’s-side door and hit him in the stomach area, said Det. Frank Alvelais of LAPD’s South Bureau. The Cadillac careened into a couple of parked cars, and 911 operators got a call of a shooting--perhaps from Freeman himself, while he was still conscious.