Police probe shotgun slaying of woman near Hollywood tourist hub

Homicide detectives searched for clues on Monday to the unsolved shotgun slaying of a woman who was walking along the street a few blocks from the heart of Hollywood's tourist hub, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The woman was killed on Sunday night when a gunman walked up behind the victim and shot her in the upper body as she was strolling with a male companion near Sunset Boulevard, an LAPD spokeswoman said. The woman was a 30-year-old resident of Los Angeles but authorities were withholding her identity pending notification of next of kin, according to the county coroner's office.