Salvadoran Slain Outside Pacoima Bar
A 28-year-old North Hollywood man was stabbed to death early Sunday while waiting for his wife to finish work at a bar in Pacoima, police said.
The body of Andres Escobar Lopez, 28, a Salvadoran national, was discovered shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, according to homicide investigator Al Ferrand. A security guard found Lopez in the parking lot of the El Paseo Bar on Van Nuys Boulevard with a stab wound in his upper body, Ferrand said.
Lopez’s wife, a waitress at the bar, told police her husband had come to pick her up from work. Police said that robbery may have been a motive in the stabbing and that they have no suspect.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
