Music exec dies after Hollywood shooting
Investigators look at a body at the scene of a fatal shooting on Dec. 9, 2011, in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, Calif. / AP Photo/Josh Edelson
LOS ANGELES - A music executive died Monday after being shot last week by a rampaging gunman in the heart of Hollywood, a hospital spokeswoman said.
John Atterberry, who had worked with the Spice Girls, Jessica Simpson and others, died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center shortly before 5 p.m. Monday, spokeswoman Simi Singer said.
The 40-year-old executive was shot in the face and upper body as he drove his Mercedes-Benz during Friday's random attack.
Atterberry was the only seriously injured victim of 26-year-old Tyler Brehm, who police say fired nearly 20 bullets in the air and at cars as he screamed that he wanted to die. He was killed by police minutes later.
Brehm's ex-girlfriend has said she and Brehm had recently broken up. But police said they're still looking for a motive for the attack.
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Brehm walked down the middle of Sunset Boulevard, firing on motorists with no clear target and injuring three of them before two police officers who just happened to be in the area — an off-duty motorcycle officer working movie set security and a detective — shot and killed him, authorities said.
In amateur video taken at the shooting scene, the gunman appeared to have short hair and wore jeans and a white tank top. He paced back and forth near the busy intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street, firing from a .40-caliber handgun, police said.
The officers ordered the suspect to stop and drop his weapon. He was shot when he pointed his weapon at the officers, police said.
Atterberry had been a vice president of Death Row Records, the label that produced albums for many of the most prominent names in West Coast hip hop, including Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur.
Courtney Barnes, a publicist for Smokey Robinson and Ron Artest, told Billboard magazine that she was shocked to hear the news, saying Atterberry was "a really nice guy."
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by babydriver57 December 13, 2011 7:15 PM EST
Jesus will come soon and end all of this. I hope I am ready for Him and you are too.
Jesus will come soon and end all of this. I hope I am ready for Him and you are too.
It is my belief that it is intended, and that our government wants to provoke people, into doing sick things, so that our government can justify, turning our nation into a police state.
With powers many times greater, than any police state, in the history of the world.
Our government does sick things to individual members of society to make them do sick things.
May I suggest that you read books on this subject one of which is "PROGRAMMED TO KILL" The Politics of serial Murder, written by David McGowan.
You should also ask your self if you are a victim of Psychological Manipulation by your government?
You find aggression, violence in other forms of music, pop cultures. Add to that the same thing that inspires violent criminal video games that millennials like the gunmen LOVE to buy and appropriate.
Don't deflect blame to some other element "programming you"
.... or alternatively they can sink into a mental abyss because they don't know how to cope, and then because guns are easily available, go out and kill a few people.