From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carrey movie actor shot dead at Hallowe'en party A police officer at a Hallowe'en costume party has shot and killed an actor after the man pointed a fake gun at him. It is not clear if the actor knew the officer was responding to a noise complaint or if he thought he was just another partygoer in costume. Anthony Dwain Lee, 39, died at the West Los Angeles mansion where he was shot. He had appeared in TV and film roles, including the character Fred in the 1997 Jim Carrey movie, "Liar Liar." Police say several hundred people, many of them in costume, were at the party. Officer Tarriel Hopper and his partner were looking for the mansion's owner as they walked along an outside walkway. Police say that the officers looked through a glass window and saw Mr Lee and two other people in a room. When Mr Lee looked up toward the officer, he allegedly pointed a fake gun in the officer's direction. Hopper responded by firing several rounds from his weapon through the window. Investigators later determined Lee's gun was a fake. "It does not appear that (the officer) did anything wrong. When somebody has what appears to be an authentic weapon, you respond the way you're trained to respond," a police spokesman said. Rick Hull, one of the party hosts, told KTLA-TV in Los Angeles that Mr Lee had raised his toy gun after an officer shined a flashlight into the room, and that officers did not identify themselves before the shooting. "I can't explain why the officer would shoot someone at a costume party who might have had a toy gun," Mr Lee's younger sister, Tina Vogt, told KTTV-TV in Los Angeles. "I mean, I don't think they can give me the kind of answers that I need, quite honestly," said Ms Vogt, who works in the police chief's office in the Sacramento Police Department. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
