Ronni Chasen slaying: New details, still no motive in shooting of Hollywood publicist

LAT ^ | November 19, 2010 | Martha Groves, Andrew Blankstein and Sam Allen

[ColdOne]

New details emerged in the slaying of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen, but police detectives still have no motive or suspects in the Tuesday morning shooting attack.

Detectives now believe Chasen was killed in a car-to-car shooting, with the assailant firing into the passenger-side window of her Mercedes coupe.

[ken5050]

FYI..there’s a link to anothe article, where former LAPD chied Bratton lays out possible scenarios..including that it was a mistake, they hit the wrong person..hmmm..older blonde, driving a Merceds in Hollywood...hundreds, nay, thousands of possibilities

[UCANSEE2]

I watched the video. Read the story. Not much to go on.
Looks like either pro, or ‘she dissed me’.

You didn’t say anything. What do you think?

[Bean Counter]

This could have been a gang initiation too. Given the circumstances as we know them anything is possible; but this looks to be random as well as particularly vicious.

Very troubling.

[shield]

That’s LA for you...all those illegals with their gangs...this is what you get and this is what the people of Cali have voted for....what else can one expect?

[Joe 6-pack]

Police have issued an APB for this vehicle and occupants...

[Cedar]

Hollywood still being run by the West Coast Mafia. She crossed someone big.

[REDWOOD99]

Publicists are notorious big-crossers.

[mware]

I only caught the tail end of a report on this killing.

They mentioned Buddy Hacket.

Is the artress somehow related to him?

[ColdOne]

I only caught the tail end of a report on this killing. They mentioned Buddy Hacket. Is the artress somehow related to him? Haven't heard his name at all.

[ColdOne]

You didn’t say anything. What do you think? My first thought It was somebody she knew. It was cold that night and she was driving home late. Why would she have had the window open? Now they say they found glass and the shots came from a moving vehicle. I am leaning toward a hit/someone she upset.

[patriot08]

The car she was in came to rest in front of the late Buddy Hackett’s house. They said they were looking at the cam on the outside of his house to see if it caught anything.

[BenLurkin]

“This could have been a gang initiation “

Yup.

[Yaelle]

No, it was not a gang initiation. How could they have used the short time period they had, while she waited on Sunset to turn left at Whittier Ave., to fire all 5 shots directly into her chest with no other shots fired, apparently, and leaving no casings? Gangbangers are idiots, and they don’t care.

This is someone who wanted no traces left.

By the bullets’ trajectories they know it was an SUV. The Beverly Hills mayor accidentally blurted out this fact today, but had to backtrack on it as apparently he gave out too much info to the public.

This was someone who wanted her dead.

Adrenalin or sheer will had this woman making her left turn and going a block and a half down the quiet residential street until she lost control of the vehicle, and her life.

They need to get security footage from behind her on Sunset to see who was following. At the intersection, the killer would have had to pull right up close in the lane next to the left turn lane to get those shots off. Somehow all 5 found their target.

They also need to get security footage of Sunset to the west of the intersection just after the murder, because it’s obvious the killer continued west on Sunset to get away.

[ColdOne]

The car she was in came to rest in front of the late Buddy Hackett’s house. They said they were looking at the cam on the outside of his house to see if it caught anything. Thank you that clears that up!

[ColdOne]

here is the Buddy Hacket info.... ~The car she was in came to rest in front of the late Buddy Hackett’s house. They said they were looking at the cam on the outside of his house to see if it caught anything Thank you ..patriot08

[ColdOne]

I agree.. someone was really really mad at her.

[patriot08]

You’re welcome.

[Ronald_Magnus]

This was a photo of her car published in my local newspaper. I noticed the Handicapped sign on her mirror and wondered if she or one of her family members really deserved it. Maybe I'm just cynical about that sort of thing.

[PLMerite]

That horse sure looks like it has a bad attitude.