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foe : _ © : "eo BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ; Dote of transcription _. May 23, 1974 : mo gz Way, but on that date it - was after the hour for lezal parking there and after he had let * his wife out of the car he turned south onto Crenshaw Boulevard - and attempted to drive behind the doctor's office to park. Just — as he turned’onto Crenshaw Boulevard he heard about three gun- shots, He recalled that recently a lady in Los Angeles had heard . similar gunshots which were fired on a movie set, and she had panicked and had driven into a crowd of people, injuring several individuals and causing a great Geal of damage, That situation came to his mind immediately and he stopped his car and almost immediately thereafter he heard a burst of rapid gunfire which he believed to be a machine gun. At this point he jumped out of his car and crouched behind it. He then heard a second burst of machine gun fire at which time he ran onto the sidewalk on Crenshaw Boulevard and into an arcade at the drug store on the corner of Imperial and Crenshaw Boulevard, CB WE :.:1.-: down the street toward Mel's Sporting oa Goods Store where he saw a male individual lying on his stomach a on the sidewalk, There was a commotion around this individual ‘but he got the impression that he had not been shot. In a moment coi. he saw this male get up and run across Crenshaw Boulevard, 47: signaling on the way with his hand for traffic to stop, and '. * then he ran to the parking lot where he Bot into a brown car and drove rapidly from the lot, am advised he does not recall seeing a van’ Leave the parking Lot and he did not see who had fired the . Machine gun that he had heard. He has the impression that a - fight of some sort was going on around the man who had been lying on the sidewalk, but he cannot recall seeing any particular 5/20/TH ot Inglewood, California File Los Anreles 7-1627 Interviewed on SAS 5/22/74 * ‘., by ; Dote dictated 8 e) : , . . 4, This document coulains neither recommendations nor conclusions of tte FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loancd to Prive your agency; il and its contents ure not to be distributed outside wr agency. : » pee ee rhe er. os . ~ SO ie ge a aoe,