Marvel star Frank Grillo slams Los Angeles crime after boxing trainer shot dead
nypost.comtold KNBC. “I don’t know what’s happened to Los Angeles that a beautiful guy like this gets shot and killed over nothing.”Bennett, 30, was shot at least eight times and died while on the way to an area hospital, police said.
Investigators have not released a possible motive in his shooting or identified any suspects.The trainer’s murder comes as homicides in Los Angeles reached the highest level in 15 years, according to ABC7.
In the first half of the year, the city saw 181 murders — a 34% increase from the average number of homicides during the same time period between 2015 and 2019.Bennett, who worked out of Fortune Gym in Los Angeles, had numerous celebrity clients such as Grillo, UFC fighter Jason “Mayhem” Miller and singers Kiana Ledé and Eddie Benjamin. “Azuma was our family.
One of the best of the best. We are all so broken,” Fortune Gym said in a statement.Bennett, from Australia, moved to the US three years ago.
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