The sister of a man who was found dead inside a Hollywood apartment along with two other men received a text message from an unknown number about her brother’s death, NBC4 Investigates exclusively learned Thursday. <\/p>\n
When the three men were found dead inside the apartment on Wilcox Avenue near Franklin Avenue Tuesday night, police had said officers went to the location after a family member had requested a welfare check. <\/p>\n
After receiving the text message from the unknown number, the victim’s sister called the Los Angeles Police Department and asked for a welfare check because she lives in Las Vegas, NBC4 Investigates learned from LAPD sources. <\/p>\n
The three men were not the tenants of the apartment unit, the sources said. No weapons were found at the scene.<\/p>\n
Investigators also do not believe the deadly shooting is gang-related as they continue to look for motive and examine surveillance video footage from the area. <\/p>\n
A neighbor told NBCLA Thursday that he had heard multiple gunshots Saturday night, followed by someone’s scream. <\/p>\n
“We heard like maybe 10 shots. I knew it was a gunshot,” Roy Emerald who lives nearby said. “We heard a woman screaming. It\u2019s almost like she ran from this building down here. She\u2019s just screaming, ‘Help me.'”<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear if the gunshots neighbors reported hearing Saturday night are connected to the case. But police said investigators are going through all calls generated from the same neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information was urged to contact the LAPD’s robbery homicide division at 213-486-6890.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sister of a man who was found dead inside a Hollywood apartment along with two other men…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1743,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-419164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-hollywood","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}