LYNWOOD : 2 Teen-Agers Working at Laundry Shot to Death
Two teen-agers were shot and killed as they cleaned up a self-service laundry after hours, but the slayings did not appear related to an earlier laundry homicide, authorities said Monday.
The bodies of Miguel Perez Jr., 13, and his brother-in-law, Jose Merlos, 19, were found Sunday night at the Demain Laundromat, said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. Robert Stoneman. Authorities said about $200 was missing from a change machine.
Merlos and Perez lived next to the laundry and worked as the cleanup crew each night, Stoneman said. Merlos was married to Perez’s sister. The two were found in a utility room by Perez’s father after neighbors noticed the store’s door ajar, Stoneman said.
On March 3 a customer was fatally shot at a Bellflower self-service laundry in an attempted robbery. No arrests have been made in the case, Stoneman said.
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