11-17-2010, 04:40 PM
photo below was taken minutes before this lady was shot to death while driving. no apparent reason.
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Beverly Hills detectives are scanning Ronni Chasen's computers and phone logs for leads to the person who gunned the publicist down early Tuesday after a Hollywood movie premiere.
Chasen's shooting death, in the middle of a posh Sunset Boulevard residential area, stunned the publicists and celebrities who worked with the 64-year-old public relations veteran.
With few clues about motive and no suspect, the homicide investigation is "wide open," Beverly Hills Police Sgt. Lincoln Hoshino said.
The attack happened just minutes after Chasen left a star-studded party celebrating the premiere of the movie "Burlesque," police said.
"We were all on such a high," songwriter Diane Warren said. "And then she left -- I'm guessing about 10 minutes before I did. What on earth? What happened? Why?"
Warren, who was Chasen's client, called the killing senseless.
"They didn't steal anything," she said. "Her purse was still there."
Chasen died after "multiple shots" were fired into her Mercedes, seconds after she drove past the Beverly Hills Hotel on her way home, according to Hoshino.
Police found her car crashed into a light pole after responding to a report of gunfire near Sunset and Whittier Drive at 12:20 a.m., he said.
Chasen died later at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, according to Lt. Fred Corral, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner.
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Beverly Hills detectives are scanning Ronni Chasen's computers and phone logs for leads to the person who gunned the publicist down early Tuesday after a Hollywood movie premiere.
Chasen's shooting death, in the middle of a posh Sunset Boulevard residential area, stunned the publicists and celebrities who worked with the 64-year-old public relations veteran.
With few clues about motive and no suspect, the homicide investigation is "wide open," Beverly Hills Police Sgt. Lincoln Hoshino said.
The attack happened just minutes after Chasen left a star-studded party celebrating the premiere of the movie "Burlesque," police said.
"We were all on such a high," songwriter Diane Warren said. "And then she left -- I'm guessing about 10 minutes before I did. What on earth? What happened? Why?"
Warren, who was Chasen's client, called the killing senseless.
"They didn't steal anything," she said. "Her purse was still there."
Chasen died after "multiple shots" were fired into her Mercedes, seconds after she drove past the Beverly Hills Hotel on her way home, according to Hoshino.
Police found her car crashed into a light pole after responding to a report of gunfire near Sunset and Whittier Drive at 12:20 a.m., he said.
Chasen died later at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, according to Lt. Fred Corral, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County coroner.