Two Valley Men Killed in Apparent Carjackings
A bartender who aspired to a show business career and a Caltrans worker who served as a Little League coach were killed within two miles of each other Wednesday morning, the apparent victims of unrelated carjackings, police said.
Police believe that William Edward Fliehmann, who was working for Caltrans, was killed when he was thrown from his truck at the Victory Boulevard on-ramp to the Hollywood Freeway. His body was discovered there by co-workers, Los Angeles Police Detective Mike Coffey said.
A man was taken into custody for questioning in the case, police said.
Nearby, Thomas Martin MacDowell was parking his BMW 325 in the 12100 block of Hesby Street when he was approached by a gunman who fired one to two shots into MacDowell’s upper torso, police said.
After being shot, the 32-year-old Chatsworth man apparently drove his car about 100 feet across Hesby and crashed into some shrubs behind his girlfriend’s apartment building, Coffey said.
Police officers found MacDowell dead inside his car, which was still running with the radio and lights on.
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