5 Caterers Were Slain in Canyon, Coroner Says
Five members of a food-catering crew were probably killed in the remote San Fernando Valley canyon where they were found stabbed, shot and beaten to death, investigators said Thursday.
Four of the five men died of gunshot wounds to the head and stab wounds to the body, and a fifth was bludgeoned on the head and stabbed, the Los Angeles County coroner’s office announced after autopsies.
Los Angeles Police Lt. John Zorn said that police believe the men were killed and left by the side of La Tuna Canyon Road either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, not long after their Mexican food truck was hijacked from the North Hollywood street where they usually worked. The hands of all five were bound behind their backs, a spokesman for the coroner said.
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