Suspect arrested in death of 17-year-old LA girl
Posted: 07/27/2009 06:27:18 AM PDT
Updated: 07/27/2009 06:29:07 AM PDT
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police have arrested a 50-year-old man on investigation of killing a 17-year-old girl found dead in her car in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend.
Police announced today morning that Charlie Samuel of Los Angeles is being held without bail at a downtown Los Angeles jail.
Officials say the body of high school student Lily Burk was found in her black Volvo on Saturday and that she appeared to have head injuries.
Police say Burk is believed to have been the victim of a botched robbery.
No other details surrounding Samuel's arrest have been released.
Article:
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12922122?nclick_check=1
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Slain girl had been 'looking forward to her life'
As the police homicide investigation continues, the parents of 17-year-old Lily Burk, found dead in her car Saturday in downtown L.A., reflect on their daughter's life.
July 27, 2009
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"The thing we want people to know about Lily is that she was a beautiful person and that she was looking forward to her life. She was funny, warm, kind and empathetic. She was deeply and widely loved," read the statement from Deborah Drooz and Gregory Burk, a Times freelancer who writes about pop music.
Lily Burk was supposed to begin her senior year at Oakwood School in North Hollywood in the fall.
Burk's body was found about 6 a.m. Saturday in the passenger seat of her black Volvo on the fringe of downtown Los Angeles near Alameda and 5th streets. The car was parked in a lot surrounded by warehouses and lofts.
Her parents said she left Friday afternoon to pick up exams for her mother, an attorney and an adjunct professor at Southwestern University School of Law on Wilshire Boulevard. She picked up the papers, but more than an hour later, she made separate calls to each of her parents asking about her credit card.
They grew worried when she didn't come back by 5 p.m.
"Lily was looking forward to going to college, to being a writer, to what was ahead," her parents said in the statement. "She had a really bright future and it was cut short. If there is anything that people can take away from this horrible tragedy, it's that life is fragile and that they should live every minute of it fully."
Over the weekend, classmates and family friends of Lily Burk, 17, of Los Feliz gathered to mourn her death and remember her life. "She was deeply and widely loved,” read a statement that her parents put out.
Article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-burk27-2009jul27,0,3198482.story
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The Death of Lily Burk…Arrest “Imminent”
July 27th, 2009 by Celeste Fremon
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The official word from the LAPD is that an arrest is “imminent” in the murder of 17-year-old Lily Burk. Unofficially, however, a couple of the officers with whom I’ve been talking tonight have dropped several large hints that the police have already picked up their suspect but that he (and someone did say “he” has not yet been booked.
But logic suggests that the person in question is presently in the company of the LAPD. I am writing this post at about 1:30 a.m., and am told that there will be word this morning.
In the meantime, police have said that Lily was randomly targeted, and that she did not know the person who attacked her.
I do know also know from my talks with Central division that the detectives have been concentrating their investigation in the neighborhoods nearby to the division, not elsewhere, which likely means the Skid Row area or thereabout.
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NOTE ONE: There are many other issues and stories to talk about. I will get to some of them later today. Some late tonight. For now, I’m staying on this story.
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NOTE TWO: Because Greg Burk, Lily Burk’s father, is a writer (He worked for years at the LA Weekly), and because Lily was a student at Oakwood, a school that tends to draw creative types, Lily Burk’s friends (and her parents’ friends and her friends’ parents) tend to be, as a group, very articulate. As a consequence, there are a a lot of people around the web expressing their anguish with painful clarity.
Nancy Rommelman is one. ….Another is the former 60 Minutes producer who blogs at The Heathen. Still another is my friend, Nick Goldberg, the LA Times Deputy Editorial Pages Editor, who has been acting the family’s spokesman.
And then there are Lily’s friends, many of whom have written heartbreaking notes on the web page that has been set up on Facebook in her memory.
Article:
http://witnessla.com/crime-and-punishment/2009/admin/the-death-of-lily-burkarrest-immanent/
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UPDATED: Suspect Arrested in Teen Girl Murder
Updated: Monday, 27 Jul 2009, 7:11 AM PDT
Published : Monday, 27 Jul 2009, 6:20 AM PDT
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Charlie Samuel, 50, of Los Angeles was booked for murder and being held without bail, the LAPD reported. He was arrested Sunday night, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Web site.
The teen "is believed to have been the victim of a botched robbery," according to the LAPD statement.
Officials will hold a news conference on the case at LAPD headquarters in downtown Los Angeles later this morning, when details of Samuel's arrest are expected to be released.
No cause of death was given, pending an autopsy.
Lily was reportedly their only child.
Article:
http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/local/Suspect_Arrested_in_Teen_Girl_Murder_20090727
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Body of Teen Girl Found Near Skid Row
Updated: Sunday, 26 Jul 2009, 10:15 PM PDT
Published : Sunday, 26 Jul 2009, 5:30 PM PDT
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Lily Belle Burk's body was found in the passenger seat of her black Volvo around 6:30 a.m. Saturday near Alameda and Fourth streets, said Rosario Herrera of the Los Angeles Police Department.
The teen, who was an incoming senior at Oakwood School in North Hollywood, left her Los Feliz home for the Southwestern University School of Law on an errand around 2 p.m. Friday afternoon and never returned, police said in a statement.
More than an hour later, she made two phone calls to each of her parents asking them how to get cash using her credit card at an ATM, police said.
She was not heard from again, and her parents reported her missing around 7 p.m. Friday.
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Article:
http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/news/local/Body_of_Teen_Girl_Found_Near_Skid_Row_20090726
Sorry if some of these have been posted already....trying to do some catching up here at WS's from being on vacation! :wink:
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