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Canoga Park Resident Is Sought in Bar Killing

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Los Angeles police detectives have identified a Canoga Park man as the prime suspect in the October killing of a Burbank man.

Police are searching for Juvenal Pizarro Chavez, 31, in the fatal shooting of Marcos Godoy, 23, Detective Phil Quartararo said. Godoy was shot Oct. 27 in a fight outside a bar in the 17700 block of Saticoy Street in Reseda.

Witnesses had been reluctant to speak to police but last week one identified Pizarro Chavez as the gunman, Quartararo said.

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Godoy and a friend arrived at the Rincon Norteno bar shortly before 2 a.m. The friend entered the bar to use the restroom but, when Godoy tried to enter, he was stopped by Pizarro Chavez, a regular patron who said the bar was closed, Quartararo said. A fight broke out, Quartararo said, and Pizarro Chavez allegedly shot Godoy once in the chest with a small-caliber pistol.

Quartararo said Pizarro Chavez, a Mexican citizen whose nickname is Kiki, used the aliases Enrique Pizarro and Martin Hernandez. He was described as six feet tall, weighing 145 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

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