Local News in Brief : Girl, 17, Slain by Robber
A teen-age girl was shot and killed early Monday in the parking lot of a Compton fast-food restaurant by a robber who was trying to pull a ring off her finger, police said.
Lorie Ann Palardy, 17, of Lynwood was sleeping in the passenger side of a car waiting for an order in the drive-through lane of a Taco Bell on Long Beach Boulevard when the gunman approached the driver’s window about 12:15 a.m. and robbed the driver, DeAndre Brown, 18, Compton Police Sgt. Gary Anderson said.
Brown handed money to the gunman, who then walked to the passenger side of the car and tried to take a ring from the sleeping Palardy, he said.
“When she awoke and tried to pull her hand away, the suspect fired several times,” Anderson said. The gunman then fled on a bicycle, he said.
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