Local News in Brief : Reward for Youth’s Killer
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The father of a teen-age musician who was beaten and strangled to death and dumped in a ventilation shaft at Hollywood High School has offered a $10,000 reward for his son’s killer.
The son, Robert Peter Campo Jr., 18, was last seen about 1:30 a.m. Feb. 2 near Franklin and Highland avenues after purchasing cigarettes with a friend, Los Angeles Police Detective Rick Swanston said.
Campo told his friend he was going for a walk on Sunset Boulevard. A custodian found his body five hours later in the bottom of a 4-foot ventilation shaft at the high school.
His father, Robert Campo Sr., a private investigator in Putnam Valley, N.Y., said the younger Campo moved to Hollywood from New York six weeks before his death to study guitar.
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