Thursday 2 p.m. UPDATE:
Terri Gilpin, a 46-year-old tenant who said she lived on the same floor as Harold, told the Los Angeles Times she overheard the man bragging to her husband, Brandon Harrison, that he killed Chasen – but he told her not to listen because he often told tall tales. Harrison could not be reached Thursday to confirm the exchange to the Times.
Thursday 11 a.m. UPDATE:
Despite the Harvey Apartments being on total lockdown Thursday morning, TheWrap was able to get inside the building and talk to several of the residents and neighboring businesses.
The building itself is a four-story, dilapitaded ‘30s style, just blocks west of the 101 overpass on Santa Monica Boulevard. The side of the building is covered with a giant mural of the Beatles, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.
Most interesting is the lobby, where the run-in with police and suicide took place. Rundown and painted an odd, lime-ish blue, it’s surprisingly small – around 10 by 12 feet – hardly as if the incident had happened in the lobby of the Four Seasons.
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The tiny room apparently had been scrubbed, and there was no evidence of blood either on the walls or on the floor.
A resident of the hotel, who refused to give his name, told TheWrap that he believed there were surveillance cameras in the building. Though none were in evidence, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday that security footage of the suicide shooting had been retrieved, according to a law enforcement source.
There is a visible security camera in the shop directly east of hotel, a Guatemalan bodega called La Oaxaquena Juices, with a monitor clearly visible on the counter. A woman working in the bodega on Thursday morning said that while the media has been requesting to look at the tape from Wednesday night, neither the LAPD nor the BHPD, to best of her knowledge, have asked to see the tape.
The resident also told TheWrap he had seen the "person of interest" around the hotel the last few days and he had seemed a little crazy.
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Another resident, Connie ZaZa, told TheWrap that police were knocking on doors of residents of the building well into the evening, seeking statements on whether they had heard or seen the shooting. ZaZa could not determine if the officers were LAPD or BHPD, but they knocked on his door at approximately 8 p.m. to inquire what if anything he knew or heard.
A musician and has lived at the Harvey for two months, he said he did not know the person of interest and neither heard nor saw anything Wednesay night..
