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Four Killed in Mediterranean Restaurant in LA

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Posted by Glenmore 2010-04-04 10:46|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Hot Spot reviews. Check out the comments.

Posted by tu3031 2010-04-04 11:06|| 2010-04-04 11:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Matt Edwards, a neighbor who heard the gunshots, said he immediately knew it happened at the Mediterranean eatery. "The place is so shady," he explained. "It opened like five years ago... I went in there to get something to eat and they didn't even know what they were doing making the food."

Sources tell LAist the shooting "was no accident." According to the LA Times, it "might have involved Armenian gangs" while other media gathered at the scene spoke of the Armenian mafia. Police said they had no further information in that regards, citing it's too early to say.

But neighbors said they were always suspicious of the cafe. "How do you run a business when there are no customers?" questioned Bettye Hicks, who lives down the street. An employee at Marie Et Cie, a coffee house catty corner to the restaurant, said no one ever goes in and out of the business.

Posted by tu3031 2010-04-04 11:30|| 2010-04-04 11:30|| Front Page Top

#3 money laundering.

Posted by Frank G 2010-04-04 11:31|| 2010-04-04 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 "How do you run a business when there are no customers?"

Old school. Today, you create 'community organizations' to laundry money. You draft ~~insert your favorite special interest group here~~ 'customers' to cover the creative bookkeeping.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-04-04 11:43|| 2010-04-04 11:43|| Front Page Top

#5
Sounds like the West Coast Armenian version of Satriale's Pork Store.

Posted by Parabellum 2010-04-04 12:16|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-04-04 12:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Four dead, two wounded in an LA cafe shooting? I'll be the locals never thought it would ever happen there.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-04 12:20|| 2010-04-04 12:20|| Front Page Top

#7 I know that it is North Hollywood, but Ry Cooder's song just popped into my head:

Going down in hollywood
You better hope that you dont run out of gas
Down in hollywood
Hell drag you right out of your car and kick your ass
Down in hollywood
Theyre standing on a corner waiting for a sucker like you
Down in hollywood
Now, if you want to stay healthy just keep a-moving right on through
Be careful, dont look back, keep moving, keep moving

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-04-04 13:44|| 2010-04-04 13:44|| Front Page Top

#8 The TV series "The Shield" had this running theme of Armenian gangs doing big heroin deals. I wonder if this was part of some territorial beef.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2010-04-04 18:33|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com 2010-04-04 18:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Sounds like an episode of "weeds" to me.

Posted by newc 2010-04-04 21:50|| 2010-04-04 21:50|| Front Page Top

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